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Google Web Drive on Its Way? [Google]
Lifehacker — [image] A user in the MacRumors forums posted this screenshot from the recently released Picasa for Mac beta , which included an option to move photos to a "Google Web Drive." Google users have wanted a cloud storage solution from Google ever since Gmail's huge storage capacity made web storage seem viable (incidentally, a lot of great solutions are already available for using Gmail as a cloud drive ), but an official storage solution from Google has yet to be seen. Google Blogoscoped suggests that the pictured "Google Web Drive" may be the solution ...

Google planning Web Drive?
Gadgetell — Section: Communications, Email / IM, Web, Websites A MacRumors forums poster recently found a curious right-click menu item in the Mac version of Google’s Picasa.  As pictured, under the “Move to Collection” header is a selection entitled “Google Web Drive.“  It may well have been Google who had kickstarted the realm of Internet storage when they launched Gmail back in 2004.  This, for the first time, proved that a mass amount (1GB was very big at the time) of data could be stored online.  Gmail users have been begging for a way to use the service to hoard their ...

Google Web Drive online storage service tipped in Picasa
SlashGear — Google could be developing a new online storage system, if a screenshot from the new version of Picasa for Mac is to be believed.  The image shows a new entry to the “Move to Collection” menu option, listing “Google Web Drive” among the usual array of folders and shortcuts.  Given Picasa users’ typically large photo libraries, and Google’s growing storage offering to GMail users, it seems entirely possible that the company is planning to launch an online backup service.  Hacks and methods to use GMail as a storage system have been circulating almost since Google began offering ...