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Linkpost | 1.19.2009
TechBlog —
... Crowd Will Test Cellphone Networks • The TechCrunch Guide To The Inauguration • New phone features 'baffle users' - Figuring out how phone features work is as hard as changing bank accounts, according to a new survey. • Music Industry Imitates Digital Pirates to Turn a Profit - Expect to see more sites offering free - but legitimate - access to tunes. • Google Preferred Sites - Choose which sites appear more often in results. Also Will "Google Web Drive" Launch in 2009? • Link by Link: Historical Photos in Web Archives Gain Vivid New ...
Google Drive Rumors Flare Up Again
ReadWriteWeb —
... Sterling also points to coverage last night on Google watchdog site Google Blogoscoped where a screenshot from Picassa offers the option to upload photos to "Google Web Drive." The conversation in comments on that post is quite interesting, as well, including a mention of what looks to us like a possible placeholder for storing photo albums in Google Docs and a mock-up screenshot of what one Blogoscoped reader thinks the GDrive product could look like. ...
Is Google working on an official GDrive for cloud storage?
Download Squad —
... digging and discovered that Google owns the domain GoogleWebDrive.com. On top of that, a quick NSlookup reveals that www10.google.com aliases webdrive-client.l.GOOGLE.COM. The idea of Google providing a cloud storage solution certain doesn't come out of left field. After all, they're already providing boat loads of free storage for us in one form or another - be it GMail, YouTube, Picasa Web Albums, Blogger, or Google Apps. [ via Google Blogoscoped ] Is Google working on an official GDrive for cloud storage? ...
The Internet’s jammed with broken links of a last chance Google Drive
VentureBeat —
... . The Google-focused blog Google Blogoscoped did some more digging and found a webpage that previously sent users to a “www10″ service (again, apparently the internal Google Drive) now returns a 404 page error, but its DNS entry has recently been updated with the CNAME entry “webdrive-client.1.google.com.” That’s a lot of web jargon, but basically it means that Google is at least playing around with some sort of “webdrive.” ...
Inklings of online storage: Google Web Drive
Webware.com —
... in 2006 indicated that Google employees get internal storage, which makes sense even from a backup and corporate IT perspective. There are some new noises on Sunday at Google Blogoscoped that sniffed out references to another possibility, though, called Google Web Drive. ...
Why a 'Google Web Drive' Won't Kill Windows, the PC or Anything Else
Wired: Epicenter —
... First there was the menu item in Google’s Mac version of Picasa — among the sync options is something called “Google Web Drive,” which currently does nothing — and now both Google Blogoscoped and ...
Take a peek at the Google Drive
Macworld —
... , bloggers discovered a reference to GDrive in the new program. Control-clicking on any photo folder and following the “Move to Collection” command brought up an option for “Google Web Drive.” This was the first major proof in some time that the storied GDrive was coming. Then, on January 18, Google Blogoscoped decided to check out the Web address www10.google.com, which was named as the possible address for the Gdrive back in 2007. According to Blogoscoped, this address is also related to the subdomain webdrive-client.l.google.com. After this discovery, the mystery became ...
Google-watchers uncover clues on possibly impending GDrive
Storage Soup —
... described GDrive this way: “the most eagerly anticipated Google product ever, with rumors literally going back years.” In January, he pointed out a reference to a “Google Web Drive” option in a beta release of Google’s photo-sharing software, Picasa, for Mac. Ruscoe also published a post that month in which several more tantalizing hints toward a possible Google Web Drive were uncovered in cached copies of ...
