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Google turns on public links for Docs, or: 1GB of free, high-speed cloud storage
Update 2: MP4 and OGV work...
BOOM!
In one fell swoop, Google just made publicly-accessible cloud storage very, very easy. Before now you could either share documents privately, or provide access with an obfuscated URL -- now you can make your Google Docs visible and accessible to everyone.
This means we're all sitting on top of 1GB of very fast and very easy-to-use cloud storage. In theory Google Docs are meant to be documents -- spreadsheets, presentations, etc. -- but... you can just upload an MP3, an AVI... and make it public!
Seriously -- go try it out for yourself. Just click upload in the top left corner of Google Docs. Select any file and click start upload. Then, click through to your new upload, click share in the top left corner, 'Get the link to share...' and finally 'Allow anyone with the link to view'.
Have fun while it lasts -- it will probably be fixed in a matter of hours or days. I don't think non-document file types are meant to be uploadable...
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Subscribe to commentsJneroJun 17th 2010 4:43PM
Non-document types have been upload-able for a while now...at least on google apps accounts. That was a new feature they rolled out around the time they rolled out their improvements to the apps.
mikeJun 17th 2010 6:33PM
The uploading of any file type has been a feature of Google Docs for a couple months now.
AmnorJun 18th 2010 8:15AM
Yeah, I hate to water down the boom, but I've been uploading jpg's since 3/22/10 on a non-apps account, and I'm pretty sure jpgs came with the any file upload option or, at the most, shortly beforehand.
Also, I hate to ruin the magic, but it looks like the sharing feature depicted above is still the _old_ version (which implies that sharing files with anyone has been around for some time - at least since the older version was released), not the one released yesterday. The change hasn't been rolled out yet for Yours Truly, but here's a link to the update: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/06/sharing-in-google-docs-just-got-easier.html
And a YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POIR37Hmydg&feature=player_embedded
I'm pretty sure they (the one depicted above and the one in the video) are not the same sharing version.
I'm definitely stoked about the new features and the all around, sleeker Google Docs, though.
Sebastian AnthonyJun 18th 2010 9:50AM
I even had some emails to say the same thing! Chrikee.
This was all about the enabling of public links -- which is a new feature, as far as I can tell :)
(The upload-any-file thing was obviously new to me!)
ankit hahJun 18th 2010 9:45AM
i am sorry to say writer of this post has not done proper research have a look at this images...
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http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7408/un2b.jpg
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http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/1535/33936272.jpg
frJun 19th 2010 1:38AM
This is news? This feature has been available for a while now... I know because I have all my important files backed up to it.. And sharing has been available since day one..
(Note: This is a feature not a bug so it will never be 'fixed')