Interesting Links for 3-5-2011

[andrewducker]

• Amazon places orders for tablets. Looks to be e-ink based again.
  (tags: amazon tablet technology)
• America enters the postmodern age - truth is now what you make it.
  (tags: postmodernism usa obama headdesk)
• Upload all file types to any Google Account - Google finally launching the GDrive?
  (tags: google backup files)
• Bidding for Dark Knight Returns Art Hits $100,000
  (tags: batman art comics FrankMiller)
• Demand for fairer benefits tests as two people who were declared fit to work die awaiting appeals
  (tags: welfare health uk)
• Psychologists show how precarious masculinity is, and how men will resort to violence to defend it.
  (tags: masculinity psychology violence)
• 75% of Lib Dem manifesto becoming government policy, versus 60% of Conservative policy.
  (tags: uk government libdem conservatives coalition)
• Antihydrogen Trapped For 1000 Seconds - a four orders of magnitude increase!
  (tags: science physics antihydrogen antimatter)
• US Broadcasters still trying to work out how to do on-demand TV.
  (tags: tv media usa broadcasting vod)

Comments

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Given Dropbox and the clunkiness of having to manage your files through Google Docs, I must confess I think the GDrive is a bit 'too little, too late'. I've got 13.5GB of free storage on Dropbox and it integrates with all OSes and iOS/Android/Symbian, and all my friends use it so I can share folders and information really easily. But, I hope Google surprise me with something I just can't resist, because that'd be awesome.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, Dropbox is just awesome, and I really can't see this replacing that. I can't actually think what Dropbox is missing, to be honest.

I think GDrive might be useful for people writing apps that need some centralised storage somewhere (that don't want to handle it themselves), but other than that it does seem a little redundant.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

If you want to know what other people think needs to be added to Dropbox you can always check out their feature request subsite. :) You get six votes a month and I used five of mine on this feature.