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I highly doubt it. What i meant was that google videos failed. Google bought youtube for its community, not for its backend. This is not relevant with regard to dropbox, as file sync is a technical problem and google is fully capable of providing a technical solution.

if its a desktop program like dropbox with a synced folder, you can write a script to place the gzip in the synced folder, and then it will sync automatically

u can encrypt any file you upload to google docs or dropbox, though i know thats not what you mean :) that said, does any one know if google docs deduplicates?

i remember hearing the same argument when google made google videos to compete with youtube, and we all know how that ended. That said, there were social and community aspects there that don't apply here, and google's cheaper storage prices and larger feature set may give it a leg up.

Maintaining our privacy on facebook is like eating healthy. We all say we want to do it, but eventually we all eat a hamburger and fries.

its going to be fun watching this back and forth.

this feels like an attempt to "ipadify" chrome

paypal used to until around a year ago when Amex forced them to stop. that said i'm a fan of what you guys do

one of the big things that helped propel paypal and square is the blended rate. Not finding a way to include amex in your single rate is a mistake.

basically the argument is that this is an encryption algorithm that is deterministic as there is no randomness, after the initial value. This sounds more like a Random Oracle, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_oracle. which by the way don't exist

is it evil that google only advertises its own products on its homepage? The idea that google on occasion expends efforts to keep people in their ecosystem, whether its what happened on the Russian chrome, or the way they use the android marketplace to prevent fragmentation, is wrong is ridiculous. Google is a company not a charity. The fact that people expect it to be selfless is a testament to their actions, not a talking point that should be used to bludgeon them.

actually it should be close to nothing, encrypted data cannot be compressed as it is supposed to be uniformly random. If it can be compressed, the encryption algorithm is weak.

also on stage at tech crunch disrupt the founders were talking about the majority of the data be deduplicated

before i would even think of touching this i'd need to know what sort of permissions im giving this app. And secondly, you care about stats on links that you intend to leave up for a long time as well as give to a lot of people. Im not sure I would trust an on the side project to keep up links that I distribute widely.

All that said, there was talk on the dropbox blog a while back about releasing analytics tools but we haven't heard anything since then.

never used the social sharing features, expect to maybe post an article to Facebook once. Its funny, its the opposite of Buzz. Marco realizes that people view Instapaper as a mainly private place, that on occasion a person wants to share something from. This is also the function gmail accounts play in many peoples lives, which is why buzz was not well received.

so how is it getting around the double NAT problem? Are users acting as bridges (like Skype super nodes) or is it going though aerofs's servers?

does this work between 2 computers not behind the same firewall. i.e. can i sync with a computer in la while im in ny?

there's been talk. I'm not sure what the ChromeOS plugin is working of off. But I can tell you from first hand experience that it is primitive and no way ready to replace the silverlight version currently employed on win/mac.

perfectly fair, i admit i've done some flight "hacking" myself. The reason i bring it up is because it is well know that airlines prices their flights between city pairs, not based on the legs. For instance a flight, between jfk and lax through chicago could cost more than the sum of those two same exact flights. This would be an opportunity to build your own ticket. I admit there are significant downsides with delays and reroutings, but if google presented the information to the public it would add transparency to a very opaque system and it may lead to a change throughout the industry in the way tickets are priced. After all google's mission statement is to organize the worlds information

silverlight's baby daddy right now is netflix. Until they go html5 silverlight will have a huge userbase.

what will be a game changing tool, and something befitting the resources of google, would be to pair flights together that are cheaper than what is offered by the airline. for instance: flying from NY to LA. Airlines sell this route non stop, or through one of their hubs. But imagine if a flight search can figure out that a oneway flight from ny to new orleans on Delta and than a flight from new orleans on AA, had a low layover and was significantly cheaper than the published routes.

The problem is that as this expands to more cities and takes more stops, you end up hitting an NP problem.

This policy seems to be a relic of the times before google docs allowed 10gb files of any type. Because the two services share a purchased storage pool but have different policies regarding taking items out. My assumption is this will disappear, especially with how close google is tying Picasa to google+, i.e photos and videos uploaded on google+ are stored in Picasa. Not being able to download videos from google+ kind of defeats the whole data portability argument google keeps talking up and using against facebook.

the problem with this theory is that deduplication works so well with file backup as the largest files we have are most often music and video, something that is highly replicated amongst file sharing users. i.e millions of users have the same Beatles album. Yet, when each persons album is encrypted it will be entirely different than every other persons album. If they were in any way similar it was not correctly encrypted. Thus the hit rate will be almost negligible. So than you say OK, but maybe the block level code of the encryption of my Beatles album is similar to the block level code of the encryption of my Eminem album, and than we can save storage there. The problem with this is that encryption algorithms aim to make their input files output as close to a random distribution as possible. Meaning not only are those two copies of the beetles albums going to be as different from each other, but they will be different from any other file. To sum it up, a well encrypted file should be uniformly random -> meaning it is uncompressible - > two different uniformly random files are still random relative to each other and when put together still cannot be compressed.

if a file is encrypted correctly, you should not be able to compress it or match it to the same file encrypted a second time.

from their faq: Your Data Is Secure Bitcasa encrypts your data before it is sent to the cloud. It is actually impossible for Bitcasa to access any of your data for any reason.

I'm confused, they mentioned at techcrunch disrupt that they are able to offer infinite storage because they are deduplicating data. Fine. But they also said that they will be doing client side encryption. Contradiction - encrypted data cannot be deduplicated.