Google GDrive Info Leaked?

Written by Adam Gosling

Tuesday, 11 July 2006

Mobilised is always suspicious when news of the latest Google feature is "leaked" it smacks of guerrilla marketing. But here's the info all the same. The prospect of Google offering what has become known as GDrive has been the grist of the web rumour mill for some time. It's a good mobility solution, so we're interested to see it when (or if) it finally arrives. The concept is to provide an amount of centralised storage space, managed, maintained and owned by Google. Here you can store all the files you need when you're away from your regular computer.   Now a blogger says he happened across a page on Google's word processing site Writely. Apparently he was fiddling around on the Writely site (appending index.jsp, index.py and so on at the URL) to see if he could determine what technology Google wsa using to run the site. Yeah, right. Then up popped a page outlining what appears to be a feature list for an offering called Platypus (GDrive). The page was quickly taken down, but not before the fiddling blogger got the screen grab above. Here's the supposed feature list. Backup. If you lose your computer, grab a new one and reinstall Platypus. Your files will be on your new machine in minutes. Sync. Keep all your machines synchronized, even if they run different operating systems. VPN-less access. Not at a Google computer? View your files on the web at http://troutboard.com/p. Collaborate. Create shared spaces to which multiple Googlers can write. Disconnected access. On the plane? VPN broken? All your files are still accessible. Related news items Flat Rate Broadband Plan For 3G -16/11/2006 Gates Admits To Online Office, But Denies Significance -07/11/2006 Google Mail Goes Mobile -02/11/2006 Microsoft Search Wins Nokia Deal -21/09/2006 Google Wins Optus Phone Search Deal -14/09/2006 Newer news items Concept Phone With A Touch(less) Of Class -22/08/2006 Ericsson Invests In Aussie Wireless Smarts -22/08/2006 ACMA To Auction 2010-2025 MHz Band -22/08/2006 One Million Order For One Laptop -26/07/2006 Motorola To Trial WiMax handsets -25/07/2006 Older news items Toshiba Announces 200GB Laptop Drive -05/06/2006 Future AMD Chips Will Power Down To Save Battery -04/06/2006 LG.Philips Cracks The 100 Inch LCD -04/06/2006 Samsung Shows Off Smarter Screens -04/06/2006 Wi-Fi Arrives On TV -30/05/2006 Tag This Now: