Daily Archives: May 11, 2005

bq.Imagine how much better a real GDrive feature would work. Gdrive would offer boundless free storage, with a searchable interface (and Archive/Star/Label support to boot). Sound appealing at all? Best of all, you wouldn’t even have to names your files yourself, so there’d be no overlapping file names (and no need for Folders)! Like the Gmail Inbox, you could find the data you need by Date, or by Search, or by Labels, or by Stars… more than enough ways to get at the files. Maybe GDrive could replace your Windows desktop interface, perhaps using the Active Desktop technology built into every PC? – John Hiler At one time, there were a whole bunch of places doing things like that; remember Xdrive? But a lack of a working business model doomed most of them years ago. Google does have a working business model and this dovetails nicely with another theory that has been going around.
bq….which is that I think Google’s going to build a Web-based thin client-type hosted environment-slash-operating system replacement. Or at least, they should, and that’s only if Microsoft doesn’t beat them to it. – Molly Wood Only time will tell.