USB Thumbdrives are so 2009

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. :-)

Comments (2) to “USB Thumbdrives are so 2009”

  1. Greetings ViJay… Can you explain the limitations when uploading pdf files to GDocs? I can view 12MB pdf’s and they appear to be searchable from the Docs search but 30+MB pdf’s are neither viewable or searchable.

  2. Hi Richard,

    Currently we only index and support viewing of files up to 25 MB.

    vijay

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