I was having a talk about the new domains Google(My extension of Memory) is spreading into with a frnd of mine. It was exciting to know the new ventures google is getting into....With MS in the race, we need to wait n watch who mooves the cheese ...I am trying to be more disciplined as a software engineer(the most commonly abused/misused word). Going through the PPP work shop,following the Personal software Process, Lemme jot what ever the grey matter(My hair started turning grey (Launchpad(My Alterego says Ah! Nothing new buddy, Same old wine of class 6th))) says the following stuff on Google
Will Google's new free e-mail system, Gmail, be just the first of many things we'll see in a new Google Desktop? If so, Microsoft could have a lot more to worry about than just Web search.
Today, plenty of people download mail to desktop-based e-mail programs. But Google might convince some of them to take up its e-mail storage offer.
After all, even if you do have a great way to search through desktop-based e-mail, you might like the idea that all your mail is backed up, stored offsite, and easily searchable from anywhere.
Now, take things a step further. Imagine next year Google provides users with 5, 10, or more gigabytes storage space for personal files.
Got a ton of text documents, spreadsheets, and other material? Push it to us, Google would say. We'll store it, index it, and make it easy to retrieve what you want. Google already indexes this type of material across the Web and has done so for ages.
As broadband expands, such an idea becomes increasingly more feasible. With it, the notion that Microsoft might trump Google with desktop lock-in becomes less of an issue.
Again my regulatr pattern of analyzing the business oppurtunity in the fore said stuff..
There is an interesting opportunity for Indian broadband companies - think like Google on the platform side, and combine with thin clients (akin to handsets) for users to build an end-to-end alternate computing platform the the mass market (today's non-users) in India. There are 40 million home users waiting and growing...
Time to tap my thinking into practical implementation plans !!
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The Devil's workshop back at the PPP assignment and will jot the crazy thoughts next time it strikes a chord..
Will Google's new free e-mail system, Gmail, be just the first of many things we'll see in a new Google Desktop? If so, Microsoft could have a lot more to worry about than just Web search.
Today, plenty of people download mail to desktop-based e-mail programs. But Google might convince some of them to take up its e-mail storage offer.
After all, even if you do have a great way to search through desktop-based e-mail, you might like the idea that all your mail is backed up, stored offsite, and easily searchable from anywhere.
Now, take things a step further. Imagine next year Google provides users with 5, 10, or more gigabytes storage space for personal files.
Got a ton of text documents, spreadsheets, and other material? Push it to us, Google would say. We'll store it, index it, and make it easy to retrieve what you want. Google already indexes this type of material across the Web and has done so for ages.
As broadband expands, such an idea becomes increasingly more feasible. With it, the notion that Microsoft might trump Google with desktop lock-in becomes less of an issue.
Again my regulatr pattern of analyzing the business oppurtunity in the fore said stuff..
There is an interesting opportunity for Indian broadband companies - think like Google on the platform side, and combine with thin clients (akin to handsets) for users to build an end-to-end alternate computing platform the the mass market (today's non-users) in India. There are 40 million home users waiting and growing...
Time to tap my thinking into practical implementation plans !!
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The Devil's workshop back at the PPP assignment and will jot the crazy thoughts next time it strikes a chord..
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