By Charlie Wood, CEO & Founder, Spanning Google Drive is finally out and it follows 4 of the 5 suggestions I offered last week on How Google Drive Could Become a Huge Success. Here’s the rundown. 1. Google Apps users are already using a “Google Drive”—keep it intact ✓My suggestion here was to keep the [...]
What’s in Your Google Drive? Find Out with Spanning Stats for Google Drive
By Charlie Wood, CEO & Founder, Spanning Two days ago Google launched Google Drive. Yesterday we saw the volume of files uploaded to Google Drive (née Google Docs) increase by a factor of 10. People are uploading a bunch of stuff—but what? What’s in your Google Drive? As it turns out, that’s a tough question [...]
How Google Drive Could Become a Huge Success, Redux
By Charlie Wood, CEO & Founder, Spanning A hundred years ago—and by that I mean last December—I wrote a guest post on Mashable with my thoughts on how Google Drive could become a huge success. Since a launch is rumored to be imminent, I thought I’d revisit those suggestions so we can see how they [...]
Oppenheimer, the Fall of the Roman Empire, and Google Drive
By Charlie Wood, CEO & Founder, Spanning At Spanning, we’ve been doing sync since 2006. (Damn, that’s a long time.) But we hadn’t been doing it long before we realized that sync makes backup even more important. Because with sync, when you make a change—including an accidental deletion or modification—that change gets sunc (we made [...]
Spanning Backup Saved My ______
Spanning Backup is saving things left and right lately. We threw an awesome party at SXSWi where Spanning Backup saved Gmail, contacts, calendars, three different kinds of bacon, Success Kid, and Rick Santorum to name a few. And now, Josh Kerr has written a blog post entitled Spanning Backup Saved Me about how Spanning Backup [...]