Google unveils paid storage

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:50 AM EDT

Article Source: Australian News Network

GOOGLE has begun selling expanded online storage, aimed at users with large picture, music or video file collections.

The annual prices established were $US20 ($24) for 6GB of online storage, $US75 for 25GB, $US250 for 100GB and $US500 for 250GB.

Google said the storage could be used across several Google products, including photo site Picasa and the email service Gmail. The storage will soon also work with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, the company's word processing and spreadsheet applications.

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Vanessa Wilson

Good seed... I thought this was an interesting twist in the Google business model.

Have you heard about Google releasing a news service where the journo and interviewees in the story can make furter comment or update the story in real time... or something?

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#1 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:58 AM EDT

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Red Wolf

Yeah, that should be interesting.

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#1.1 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:11 AM EDT

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Vanessa Wilson

Is it a rumour or is it true?... I think I read it somewhere. I could be wrong. But what a concept...

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#1.2 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:19 AM EDT

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Red Wolf

It's true. Via the Google News Blog:

We wanted to give you a heads-up on a new, experimental feature we'll be trying out on the Google News home page. Starting this week, we'll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, but with a bit of a twist...

We'll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question. Our long-term vision is that any participant will be able to send in their comments, and we'll show them next to the articles about the story. Comments will be published in full, without any edits, but marked as "comments" so readers know it's the individual's perspective, rather than part of a journalist's report.

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#1.3 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:15 AM EDT

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Vanessa Wilson

Now that gotta impact on media production...

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#1.4 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:45 AM EDT

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Red Wolf

Mainstream media went a bit silly over the announcement. I can't imagine the tabloid style papers being too pleased to have a contradictory opinion about their article written by their interviewee.

Having a public track record that you don't fact-check and generally make stuff up won't look good for a corporate media that has mostly ditched real reporters and replaced them with cheap, talentless hacks who are happy to issue corporate press releases in lieu of news.

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#1.5 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:32 PM EDT

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