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Google Platypus Mass Storage
There was talk of a Google GDrive in the works a while ago. It was said to be some kind of mass storage area for user to store whatever they wanted, and be able to access it from anywhere.Enter Platypus. Philipp Lenssen got some news about this possible new service, with an archived version from Corsin, who thankfully made a backup of what he came across. Corsin came across this page by doing some URL typing.
Google's Platypus Gdrive has the tagline of "A filer for the whole world. But better." Platypus enables you to store files on your C drive of on the filer.
If your computer crashes, or you get a new one, you can reinstall this Platypus software, and you files will be automatically downloaded and synched onto your new machine.
You can Sync files across many different computers, and operating systems.
You can view your files across the web.
You can share certain files to multiple people.
If you are not able to get an internet connection, all of your files are still available.
It is also said that this new Platypus application will be available in Windows, Mac and Linux formats. Word is that Justin Rosenstein, the Product Manager for the Google Page Creator is working on this project as well.
There is no official news as to what this application is, and to whether it is truly in development at Google, but we will be keeping our eyes open for this very interesting one. Interestingly enough, Google has called itself "The Platypus of the Internet".
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