Google Online Storage “My Stuff” Rumored

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And now the race is on to give users free online storage space.  Microsoft is now offering a service called SkyDrive which gives users 1GB of space.  Yahoo already has their Briefcase service, which offers users the same kind of deal and a premium storage service.  And now, rumors are that Google will be offering their own.

The Wall Street Journal is touting that the new service will be called “My Stuff.”  It bases the information on an anonymous source.  They also quote a memo from 2006 that talked about a “GDrive.”  There are apps that allow you to tap into your Gmail storage capabilities already.  Just check out the Gdrive in that post.  In any case, it seems that Google is trying to slowly woo users away from Microsoft products.  The online storage solution, Google Docs, and Gmail are making it easier and easier to do so.

One thing users have to weigh, however, is the online privacy issue.  Just how much of your data do you want sitting on someone else’s machines?   In an age where privacy is already suspect, this kind of move can be even more unnerving.  Maybe we should talk about online security problems in a future post.

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