USB Thumbdrives are so 2009

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:46 am

Today at work we started rolling out the ability to upload, store, and share any file in Google Docs.

It’s pretty useful feature (if you don’t mind me tooting my own horn). A lot of people today email files to themselves so that they can access the file from a different computer or to have a backup copy “just in case”. Or folks might carry around a little USB thumbdrive so that they don’t have to lug their laptop everywhere.

But now, if you’re a Google Docs users, you don’t need to bother with those workarounds. Just upload those important files to your Google account and you can get to them from anywhere and at anytime. (Google Docs is free, so why aren’t you using it?)

Pretty neat stuff right? And there’s a lot more to it; check out the consumer and enterprise press releases for more info.

There’s some good press coverage too: TechCrunch, CNet, and Information Week to name a few.

My teams also had a few other nice smaller launches the past few weeks:

There are a few more, but the big one is “Upload any file”. Check it out. :-)

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Dave Barry’s Year in Review 2009

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:06 am

Dave Barry writes an annual “Year in Review”. I thought 2008′s review was amazing, but 2009′s review managed to top it. It starts with this:

It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the reins of power to a group of fresh, young, idealistic, new-idea outsiders such as Nancy Pelosi. As a result Washington, rejecting “business as usual,” finally stopped trying to solve every problem by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at it and instead started trying to solve every problem by throwing trillions of taxpayer dollars at it.

And then:

In an alarming technological development, hackers shut down Twitter, leaving a desperate and suddenly vulnerable America with no way to find out what the Kardashian sisters are having for lunch. The Federal Emergency Management Agency urges the nation to “remain calm” and “use Facebook if you can.”

And finally my favorite:

Also, as the year draws to a close, the Centers for Disease Control releases an urgent bulletin warning of a new, fast-spreading epidemic consisting of severe, and in some cases life-threatening, arm infections caused by “people constantly sneezing into their elbow pits.”

It’s well worth the time to read the whole thing. :-)

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