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Google: Why not make the cloud free?

Started by mathewi · 7 months ago

Kevin Kelleher has a post up at GigaOm with an interesting proposition: he says Google should duplicate the kinds of cloud-based services that Amazon has — the S3 storage business, the EC2 virtual server business and so on — except do it all for free. He rightly argues t ... Continue reading »

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  • Matt

    7 months ago

    Mathew - Loving the blog. I didn't even know you had it. Always enjoyed reading your stuff in the Globe, so it's nice to find this.
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  • mathewi

    7 months ago

    Thanks, Matt -- glad you're enjoying it.
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  • andersondb8

    7 months ago

    I don't know how they could do this, if they offered that much space to everyone for free, I don't think even all their servers could handle the demand.
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  • mathewi

    7 months ago

    I suppose there would have to be file-size restrictions and usage
    restrictions, just like they have with Google Documents and Gmail, but
    I don't see why they couldn't do it. Most people don't use all their
    Gmail storage, so it costs them very little to offer it.


    On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Disqus
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  • Shelley

    7 months ago

    April fool!

    Good one. Almost had me going.
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  • mathewi

    7 months ago

    Actually, Shelley, I'm totally serious.
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  • Folknology

    7 months ago

    The interesting thing is how can Google make a freemium cloud play against Amazon. In order to do it they would need a different approach, I believe folks like Steve Yegge have left us some clues :
    http://www.folknology.com/blogs/default/2008/04...

    regards
    Al
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  • felix

    7 months ago

    I could almost see it working for google - they always at least indirectly benefit from having more content on the web. But still, this is potentially a big whammo on their servers and they already can't keep up with demand (see the hours long delay on google analytics) and with their google ad manager coming up for the masses, I wonder if they really want to tack on a new revenueless cpu sink.
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  • antje wilsch

    7 months ago

    D***t Mathew I have to disagree with you!! j/k

    It's just all about page views/ viewers/ readers. Controversy sells. Agreement is la de da and life goes on (boring). Lives are boring enough if everyone agrees.

    You were quoted in the Silion Valley Web Guild email blast yesterday by the way.
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  • mathewi

    7 months ago

    Hey thanks, Antje. Controversy does definitely sell :-)

    Can you send me the Web Guild email?


    On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Disqus
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