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- lastthingusee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+63It's just Google's own private online drive for its emplyees. It's not planned on being released to the public.
- mirunit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21The thing is that no matter how AWESOME this technology is, residential broadband with 6mb down is absolutly usless when you are sitting with 300kbs up (~35-40kbs) and trying to transfer large files. What is needed in the United States is symetrical broadband, not this one sided stuff put out by the cable/DSL companies.
- Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Just to repeat, what Google names "Gdrive" is for internal use only, and we don't have any indicators (at least yet) that this specific project is on a release plan for the public...
- RBotros, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Help pages for windows cached here: http://blog.outer-court.com/files/platypus-help/help-windows.html
And linux: http://blog.outer-court.com/files/platypus-help/help-linux.html - MikeKnoop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Heh, thanks for labeling the giant platypus icon for me :)
-Mike - Testify.Alex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14There are plenty of firefox extensions that do this with your gmail account.
- djdigital, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I like the page they send you to if you forgot your password to login.
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/wickedcoolstuff/habuyousuths.html - oedenfield, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Except they have a 10 mb per file limitation.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The company I work for has custom programs with "catchy" names, logos, and help files that will never make it to the general public. It's not uncommon.
- jbond03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9what happend to Xdrive?
- chesterjosiah, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13I can't wait 'til this becomes an external app! This is obviously what Eric Schmidt was referring to (Google's Analyst Day, March 2nd 2006) when he talked about having a "golden copy" of your data (see http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/Google-Drive/)
Bandwidth and storage limits are holding this back, so who knows when those limits will be overcome. - spyder91, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The Platypus is throwin' up the shocker
http://blog.outer-court.com/files/google-platypus-client.png - Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Don't be embarassed. Being from Germany, I learned English as second language, and many of the readers aren't native speakers as well. Which second languages do you speak perfectly?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
- Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The links are "dead" because you need to access Google's intranet (corp.google.com) to make them work.
- NerveBand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Try Hamachi. Its exactly what your pretty much looking for.
- slashpd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7this is awsome .. !! Kudos' to Philpp for this info
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5They probably got this idea after people released code that mounts a gmail account as a hard drive. Combine this with truecrypt and you can abuse this system. Google wants you to keep stuff unencrypted so they can give you ads based on content. Encrypt everything and they're stuck with your useless encrypted backups which they can't benefit from, but they've just given you secure backups that are never lost.
Thanks, google. - omjeremy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You are right, but I don't think we're going to get symetrical broadband any time soon. I recently got Verizon's FiOS with 20mb down and 5mb up. I usually get only 2.5mb up, but it's much better than Comcast's 374kb! As far as downloads go, usually the only limit to how fast I can download is the server I'm downloading from.
- exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4There are non-firefox extensions, too, like the gmail shell extension: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
Sorry for the plug, but not my product, so less bad. - diggAddict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In australia we have download caps - not like in the USA who seem to have no download limits at all. Everyone just assumes you have unlimited downloads. Although the speeds available here in Australia now with ADSL2 seem to far exceed the USA which are still stuck on ADSL and at best I have heard is 8 megabits from Earthlink.
I do like using ADSL2+ which is for me 16 megabits down, 1 megabit up. Even faster if you are closer to the exchange - potentially 20+ megabits.
All these online storage services are great for unlimited download plans - absolutely useless if you have a 40 gig a month plan like I do. - mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yea, I've really stopped resisting Google a long time ago. They will take over the world and they will do a good job.
- ACoolie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2troutboard.com is registered to Google. Sounds real to me.
- Flukey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2On a side note about XDrive being owned by AOL. It'll be interesting to see if they 'accidentally' release a list of files stored by Users on the system. 'Accidentally' being the operative word.
- ujangdigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4gmail also for their employee few years back
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"gmail also for their employee few years back"
gmail was always written with the intention of being opened for the public, but was seeded to people within Google who would then seed the community (as that was the best way to keep spam out of the equation while they built the system). gmail's adoption has suffered because of that, but it's still a very widely used email service, and with great features. - n1cza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just found that in the -conf file, pretty much the only thing of any interest :/
- xtr3m, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I saw BT live a few months ago: it was a pretty good performance.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3... unless it supports dis/assembling 10 MB chunks in the background, transparently to the user. Then this wouldn't really matter to the user at least. Not sure about Firefox extensions, but I know Explorer addons that do this.
- goldie9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i remember about 5 years ago a site called xdrive used that same system.. it was a flop back then cause of bandwidth limitations, typical they was ahead of their time,, This idea should work now, since some many more got high speed
- Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I want a Platypus
- gbyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mmm.. Time bombs!!
Sounds awesome!
Just send one time bomb to kill Billy 20 years ago.. and google could rule the world.
Oh.. you mean the tube thing... :) - 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Somebody's got a hold of my platypus too.
/giggity - Flukey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 How, erm, interesting.
- zugu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1actually, xdrive.com has been bought by AOL and its services are free, now
- teckieee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1somewhat silimlar to zapr www.zapr.net, although still in beta ive been using this excelent free program for a long time now so this google thing isnt so new to me.. unless if it was what i have thought it was that you can actually run programs installed from the internet to your computer that would be awsom!
- zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1at first i thought this was about the isp billing system of the same name:
http://resellers.tucows.com/backoffice/platypus
btw, it is a really shoddy piece of software. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3The only one's that have it right are the colleges. I love t-carriers. 2MB/s up and down. Even faster if you know someone in ITS that can uncap you...
- krycheq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Other than the fact that this is from Google, what's the difference between this and iFolders from Novell? The iFolders system does everything this thing is supposed to do; sync, backup, shared/subscribed folders/spaces with other users, web access, offline access... It also supports Linux, Windows, and Mac clients...
So what's the big deal? At least you can download iFolder and use it... deploy it at home, or in your enterprise. Besides, it doesn't look like GDrive is available for anyone outside of Google for now... - Obsidian743, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Not if they keep spending 1+ billion dollars on time bombs.
- ineser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks cool, hope they will release the official version
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1LCARS INTERFACE ONLINE
- psilanthropist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1you know, this gives me an interseting idea. if two computers are internet connected, you no longer need a home file sharing network. you can just mount the gmail hard drive in both computers and use it to transfer stuff. of course this will only work for faster connections.
- Bioshocker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3It's pretty embarrassing that the author seemingly needed to look up what a platypus is.
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1mount gmail to your PC: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/Mail-Utilities/GMail-Drive-shell-extension.shtml
- techdugger, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5I think Google is cautious about releasing this to the general public because they're afraid we'll use it for warez
I ain't gonna lie, I email mp3's to my friends all the time.. this would make it easier :) - yangj08, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Well- I speak both English and Chinese perfectly. I'm also learning Spanish and Japanese.
- Vindstille, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Ya, for the moment it is only for Google Employes.
But think if this some day will be realized. It had been awsome! - patience, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Dou you guys recognize a pr/marketing stunt when you see one. It wasn't leaked. It was planted for diggers to salivate over.
FYI: At least 5 storage .coms failed trying this model. Its the upload speed, stupid. - ccheath, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6but isn't this kind of like .Mac ?? except only for Google Employees ??
not really neat since it isn't for the average user... the guy who's got the exe file can't even login to the app...
lame if you ask me -
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