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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+42Another Google Notebook Image: http://www.googlestore.com/popups/view.asp?code=GO0016
- ericab, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericajoy/tags/notebook/ will take you right to the notebook pics. That's assuming you don't want to look at my nephews.
- jpt62089, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24Gah, I thought it ment a laptop... x.x
Anyway looks pretty cool :) - dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23goodbye backpack, it was fun while it lasted
- MadModdr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20you bastard
- ers35, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Seems legit, going to www.google.com/gn has a different 404 page than any other misspelled extension.
- jmikola, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12great; now i can stop using gmail drafts to save accessible copies of random text files and the like.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9damn ...get a new personality dipsh*t.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9So I'll probably get burried for asking a question instead of saying something witty. But what in the world is backpack? Is it www.backpackit.com? Googling 'backpack' that's the only thing I can figure you guys mean. Anyways, any explanation would be appreciated.
- anonym, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Backpack:
http://www.backpackit.com/
made by 37signals:
http://www.37signals.com/ - KissCool, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8what is really appealing is, as usual with Google, the high level of integration with other products.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Its like everyday is Christmas with Google!
- romper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Also going to google.com/notebook redirects to /gn (with the 404 error).
- redsoxers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Here's an idea: Go ***** yourself in the ass, you pre-teen piece of trash.
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6If you want something private you must.
1. Encrypt it.
2. Put in on a local hard drive (Better if the computer is NOT connected to the Internet.)
3. Hide the computer somewhere no one will find it.
Saving ANYTHING on the web is not 100% secure EVER. Google is offering something WITHOUT spy-ware that will allow you to do simple things that everyone has always wanted. I used to use notepad in yahoo when I used Yahoo and Yahoo mail had it. Google should at least offer the same services that its competitors offer. That will assure their place. Example: Yahoo users can pay to increase their extention limit to 20MB. Google should start at 20MB. Yahoo has voice mail now. Google should have video mail and voice mail. Yahoo Messenger has file transfer and video. Gtalk should have the same and more. I would like to see Google expand more instead of less. The only things of Google I don't like so far are desktop and Picaso and such.
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It is great!!!! I love being able to search my chat sesions. If you don't turn it off.
Eric Wilson - Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Is Google teasing us by not releasing this product with the other ones, or do the Googlers really need the extra week?
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7@nerdler: I believe jmikola was very explicit about using the word "accessible", as in you can access it anywhere. A local filesystem is infinitely more difficult to remotely access than a webpage, wouldn't you agree?
- wsfulmer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I wonder if it will have labels and stars..
GMail - labels & stars
Reader - labels & stars
Bookmarks - labels & stars
Calendar - NO labels & stars. WTF??
Notebook - ?? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4wow, even more personal info that big brother...um I mean... google will have access to.
Some day in the future people are going to regret centralizing all their personal information on some corporation's remote centralized server.
The NSA is going to have a field day with all of the data. - kdog181518, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5they should just call it goatbook
- Baeck, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10I don't see anything about Google Notebook that would lead me to believe that it is a suitable replacement for Backpack. From the Google Blog:
- Google Notebook (which we'll be launching next week) is a personal browser tool that lets you clip text, images, and links from the pages you're searching, save clippings to an online notebook, and then share notebooks with others.
While this may replicate some Backpack functionality, I don't see any way GNotebook will get me to drop Backpack. - crackhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's idiotic, pingveno. People don't have a problem with integration...hell, that's Apple's forte! The problem they have with MS is that their integration is compulsory. For example, you can't uninstall Internet Explorer. Conversely, in OSX you can choose to use Safari, or just delete the damn thing and use Firefox or what-have-you. Microsoft's integration strategy is twofold: make their software interoperable with their own software, and make sure that interoperability precludes other software vendors from gaining a foothold in their integrated turf.
Google's products may be integrated, but that's part of what makes them useful. If you don't like it, you can choose one of their competitors. Incidentally, choosing never to use Windows is a much more difficult prospect. - TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What do you want? They have to do ads. That is how they make money. Why. Why do you think they are doing it? They are doing it to generate more traffic and more publicity for Google. They want you to use them for everything, eventually Yahoo and MSN and AOL and the like will loose more and more traffic. That is their plot you are looking for. If they sold all your info, what do you think that would do to their reputation? Google actually is the only company that DIDN'T release your info to the governent when it was requested. They fought against a lawsuit. So go ahead, use something like Yahoo. A company that already sold you out.
ERic Wilson - rrbaker, on 01/15/2009, -4/+7This is nowhere near a Backpack killer. Maybe someday, but the ability to drag-reorder items isn't enough. Backpack's got uploading files, different types, layout, an API... yyyeah. No. Not cancelling my subscription over this.
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6... and you always get a new doll with the same, crappy wardrobe.
- waynechng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4May not be a Backpack-killer, but I bet it'd be free with more storage and integration to other Google products like Gmail and Calendar ...
- pacificdrums, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5hahaha so did I!!!
- brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i actually think this is a good idea... especially how it shows up on google.com's search engine, so as you are searching, you can jot down notes.
plus, i think we've all sent a little "note" to ourselves in gmail to keep track of a link or something when you're not on your own computer - BrainMaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The announcement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/yes-we-are-still-all-about-search.html
- cam2009, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4the services just announced like 'trend' and 'desktop' were meant to remind everyone that they're focused on search still, according to http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
notebook is still partly intertwined with search, but i think its better to let us focus on the 'obvious' search products before people get mad and tell them to go back to basics. - moiety, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Touché, my friend. Touché.
- Elpoca, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I highly doubt if Flickr is "her" site....
- mxpxpx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4dont shun me, but i dont really get it and what it means...
- dhiraj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think Google Notebook is pretty disappointing; I'd expected more/better from Google, especially with the hype they build with their press day.
The main problem I have is that they have completely confused the casual visitor on which service to you. First there was blogger, then came Google Pages.
There's technical problems as well. More juice here: It's a lot better than Yahoo Notebook, I suppose. But I think it still leaves a lot to be desired.
There's also the problem that it completely confuses the user as to how to publish information. This is the third (AFAIK) google offering that allows a user to publish stuff on to the public web. First there was blogger, then came Google Pages. And now there's notebook.
There are technical problems in the system as well.
More juice here: http://www.dhirajgupta.com/Home/tabid/36/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/71/Google-Notebook-sucks.aspx - britcomseter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think Backback is a very different experience. Plus you have to pay for Backpack for it to be really usable. A better example is Jeteye.com. It lets you save links, images, text, and video. I made an example that you can try http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/21200920
- sam3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Wait, what is this for? I must have missed the announcement.
- imlesterbob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5same....make it more clear next time
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2goodbye? what.. have you tried this g-notepad already? lets wait till we've actually used it before we say "bye" to anything..
- shantambee3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I wish something like this would have come out earlier.
Being in grad school, I've had to write a lot of papers, and most of my research I used google scholar. This can be a very neat tool to help organize research papers. - toekneebullard, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5So is this supposed to be Google's answer to delicious and the like?
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I mean, it's useful, but it's nothing all that much bigger or better than e-mail or calendar. Still, i'll probably end up using it
- waz67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Or you can use http://www.ifaves.com which allows you to save/share bookmarks and notes, with tags and all that stuff too
- recover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google FTW :)
- geetarista, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can actually get in to notebook right now!
- wildkarde, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2eh, not bad. altho i dont see the point in it. I guess it has its uses.
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1> Some day in the future people are going to regret centralizing all their personal information on some corporation's remote centralized server.
See, I entirely disagree. With the propagation of wireless Internet and broadband, I think it's far more likely that we'll move entirely away from local storage as we know it today and embrace remote storage. I envision a future where everyone runs thin-client-like hardware, with nothing but a small amount of storage space attached to run the operating system. All your personal and public data is stored on remote grids, and we pay a low storage fee for just the amount of space we use; expandable nearly infinitely. We really aren't a far cry from this concept already, if you look at services like Amazon S3 and Google's rumored "GDisk" offering in development.
I think before such a reality could take form, though, we'll need stricter enforcement of personal data and privacy on the Internet by Governments. To be honest, though, Google is the one company I have enough faith in to "trust" with my email, schedules, etc. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What do we need screenshots for? Google's products don't look special... actually, they all look the same! Unless someone can post a link with actual information about what Notebook does, no digg.
- moiety, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Unlikely. While the remote accessiblity of Notebook is nice, OneNote has infinitely more features, and offers multiuser-oriented collaboration options. That having been said, I would love to see it one day become true competition- the more apps that move off my HD and onto my browser the better.
- j27yang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no matter you think google notebook cool or not, check out "memodepot" products, which exists more than two years before google notebook, and can do anything google notebook can do and much more.
http://www.memodepot.com
memodepot products not only allow you to do anything google notebook can, it also literally extends your desktop into the web. with its lightweight client, you can take anything in your desktop as a note, including local files (drag/drop), word/text doc, images (clip and splicing), PDF, windows, desktop, you name it.
The servies are free.
There are two parts:
- memodepot.com is the online notes management system. After you open an account, you can put any notes there, and organize, search, share notes, access notes from anywhere with a browser.
- light weight yet feature rich "paste2web" windows client. This client can do everything google notebook can do, with more flexibility and ease of use. more importantly, anythings in your desktop can be a note and accessed from anywhere. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No, not at all. I didn't say local filesystem anyway. Networked filesystems have been around since the '60s.
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