Wednesday, May 18, 2005

RoamDrive

RoamDrive is an application that allows you to store data in your GMail (or Hotmail/MSN) e-mail account. Unlike GMail Drive, you can not mount this as a hard drive, but there is no 40 character file name limit or 10MB file size limit.
A software utility finally exists that will leverage all of the wonderful new storage space on all three* major free internet-based email providers - Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and GMail. RoamDrive is currently in beta/. By serving as a simple front-end to the underlying storage, You can very simply have "anywhere access" to your data. It will be interesting to see how this affects membership of the mail providers, as well as if it introduces new ways to use these services. One idea would be a very simplistic "data drop" for multiple individuals to share for simple team collaboration or data-sharing.

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