Google Drive About To Launch?

Stuff Facebook. Sod Twitter. I’m obsessed by Google. I know this statement doesn’t make me cooler, smarter or sexier but they really do make nice web products. So when I saw this bit of gossipy news, I got very excited.

Apparently, venturebeat reports that a bit of code has been found in Google Pack software which reads:

GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents.

With another bit saying:

GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device – be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone.

Eek!It makes perfect sense to me that they should offer this facility and I think they have suitably held out for a long time.

During my time at AOL I worked on a localised project of numerous names but would be most people will know it as XDrive. Though a great idea – virtual storage and lots of it – the time and market thirst for such a product wasn’t right (we weren’t sharing large files or viewing video in the way we are now) and it cost a lot of money to run with little viable sources of direct income. I think the imminent launch of Google Drive will be interesting as, it seems, Google have held out and waited until there was a market for the product.

Using picassa, google docs, gmail for all my web stuff, I am starting to find that my 10GB storage allowance across the Google network is being quickly used up but I am unwilling to pay for additional access as right now I can’t use the additional space as I wish. Google Drive will change this as I then have a virtual drive, something mac users are used to with .mac. Couple this with Google Gears, the offline access tool, for all Google products and full integration with mobile (and in particular my iPhone) and you’re getting closer and close to the perfect consumer web apps solution. For me, at least!

Source: venturebeat