http://www.cocomment.com/comments/shekyboy Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-26T11:40:58.705+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=shekyboy&conv=953948&comment_id=18315915 Abhishek Tiwari Sam, Thanks for the link. I will check out the service. With your description it does sound like a full featured offering. I don't think Google's offering is all that. They have an expensive and less accessible offering. However it is the horizontal integration with their services, makes this interesting. They also have a monopoly of sorts in that area. Ideally I as a consumer should be able to utilize any web service and use any backend storage of my liking. Ofcourse this means that the services must talk and implement standard APIs. However this will give us the users an opportunity to leverage the best and most cost effective solutions. Abhishek 2007-08-19T15:55:36.954+02:00 2007-08-19T15:55:36.954+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=shekyboy&conv=956527&comment_id=18239892 Abhishek This is an excellent effort from Google. They have been pretty vocal in this domain and are finally bringing these services to bear. However the privacy issue is still unknown. Also how would they monetize this type of service. Let's face it, building and running such a service will be pretty expensive. Check out my post on this topic. http://abhishek.tiwari.com/2007/08/15/google-a-day-keeps-the-doctor-away/ 2007-08-15T07:29:18.141+02:00 2007-08-15T07:29:18.141+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=shekyboy&conv=953205&comment_id=18239828 Abhishek Tiwari Yeah I personally like browsing these on my laptop too. Its more interactive that way. However if these guys can strike a right balance, I am more than happy to be a couch potato ;-) 2007-08-15T05:45:48.585+02:00 2007-08-15T05:45:48.585+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=shekyboy&conv=953948&comment_id=18156655 Abhishek Tiwari Sunil, That's a good point. However I think this is their soft launch for those folks who are running out of space even with 2.8 Gigs (current GMail capacity). Abhishek 2007-08-13T03:48:23.870+02:00 2007-08-13T03:48:23.870+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=shekyboy&conv=953208&comment_id=18155668 Abhishek I have tried both Pownce and Twitter and must say that by itself they arent of much value Read more http://abhishek.tiwari.com/2007/07/23/pownced-and-twitterized/ 2007-08-12T08:29:27.489+02:00 2007-08-12T08:29:27.489+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=shekyboy&conv=953205&comment_id=18155663 Abhishek Tiwari I am glad to see ABC push the envelope. Hope to see them bring some interactivity to the game. Yeah the lions and the buffalo video was awesome. It had all the elements of a good action movie. Action, suspense, drama and all that... 2007-08-12T08:21:16.927+02:00 2007-08-12T08:21:16.927+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=shekyboy&conv=951400&comment_id=18153505 Abhishek The news was certainly underwhelming. However one must remember that this is typical of Google. They start slow but do end up taking the lead over time. Also unlike all the other storage services, Google offers this as an extension to its existing services. We know that Google will horizontally apply that strategy across the board. Read more at http://abhishek.tiwari.com/2007/08/10/gdrive-is-live/ 2007-08-10T15:54:34.389+02:00 2007-08-10T15:54:34.389+02:00