Yesterday, the Official Google Blog announced that users can now upload any type of file to GoogleDocs, not just word processing files, spreadsheets, and presentations. Furthermore, the maximum file size has been raised to 250 MB.
Now, we’ve discussed GDocs here before, but only in terms of its word processing functions. These new features have the potential to take the service in a new direction, competing with file sharing web apps like Droplr, Drop.io, and YouSendIt but (perhaps) also with file sync’ing services like Dropbox or Syncplicity.
According to the Official Google Docs Blog (not to be confused with the Official Google Blog, mind you), users can store up to 1 GB of non-GDocs files for free, and additional storage costs 25 cents per GB per year.
What do you think? Do these new features sound like something you’d use? Would they make collaboration easier for you? Alternately, would you use them to keep files accessible from multiple computers that you use?
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One Response to GoogleDocs Now Accepts Any File Type
Amy Cavender - January 14, 2010 at 11:39 am
Since all my students have Google Documents accounts, I’ve made them aware of this new development. It will help them with storage space issues, if nothing else. (For a number of reasons, our institution can provide us with only very limited space on the campus servers.)