The Gmail G-Drive
Gmail's first birthday, and the fact that the storage limit was doubling to 2GB, got a lot of coverage last week. The Gmail home page included a nifty little running tally timed to count up through the day from 1000MB to 2000MB.
What is really interesting -- and what I haven't seen reported yet -- is that the counter didn't stop. It's still running -- though not as fast -- and is now at 2057.810643 and counting...
Put this ever growing storage capacity together with scripts like these, and you get something really novel -- a paradigm shift. It's no longer simply another free email account. What you have is a de facto virtual hard drive. All the pieces of the Google puzzle are falling into place and this is perhaps the biggest yet. A desktop on the internet. A serious model of the slim client approach to personal computing is finally beginning to be realized.
What is really interesting -- and what I haven't seen reported yet -- is that the counter didn't stop. It's still running -- though not as fast -- and is now at 2057.810643 and counting...
Put this ever growing storage capacity together with scripts like these, and you get something really novel -- a paradigm shift. It's no longer simply another free email account. What you have is a de facto virtual hard drive. All the pieces of the Google puzzle are falling into place and this is perhaps the biggest yet. A desktop on the internet. A serious model of the slim client approach to personal computing is finally beginning to be realized.
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