lexanderA » Storage http://lexandera.com A blog about the web, mobile web, semantic web and mobile semantic web. Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:27:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Web apps and Google’s webdrive http://lexandera.com/2009/01/web-apps-and-googles-webdrive/ http://lexandera.com/2009/01/web-apps-and-googles-webdrive/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:30:08 +0000 Aleksander Kmetec http://lexandera.com/?p=190 By now, you’ve already heard about it: someone who religiously reads Google’s compacted CSS files found a reference to an icon called mini_webdrive.gif in one of them, and now everyone – including me – needs to post on their blog about how this hypothetical Google webdrive will enable us to do such incredibly amazing things as… store files.

I don’t know. Am I the only one finding it difficult to get excited about this?

But here’s something I could get mildly excited about: an API which would allow any site to store files on your web drive the same way apps on your computer can store files on your local hard drive, as scientifically illustrated by the following image:

The magical webdrive in the sky

This way your favorite services could write copies of your data to the webdrive location you provided. Not only would this allow you to seamlessly use files between any desktop and web applications, it would also mean that when another successful and popular web startup went out of business because their cunning business plan didn’t include making money, you wouldn’t need to worry because you’d know that you have a copy of your data safely stored on servers of a company which only occasionaly loses their user’s emails.

And finally, some sort-of related reading which talks about completely self-hosting clones of popular web apps, as opposed to only having separate storage for data, described above:

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