I’ve been using Google’s Gmail service for some time now because it offers some excellent features that competitors don’t. POP access for collecting your mail through another email client (Outlook etc), 2.5GB of free storage, powerful search, filtering, and sending mail from multiple addresses.
Then I recently started using ‘Google Personalised Home‘ as my homepage because you can customise it to display your Gmail inbox, your bookmarks, and as many rss feeds as you like. I’ve got feeds from BBC News, Slashdot and Empire as well as the latest weather, Movie listings, music reviews and friends Blogs on my homepage everytime I start my browser. Plus I can log-in anywhere in the world!

Well now the Google rumours appear to be true, with the leaked internal report of Gdrive. Currently in development, Gdrive promises to be an unlimited amount of online storage to keep all your files, music, media within easy reach anywhere you go. A definite advantage for certain things, yet be sure to keep personal/sensitive documents away from such online storage ideas as many have been quick to point out that if Google can’t even keep their own files secure, why should we trust them with ours?

Oh, for all you hotmail users, Microsoft have launched various aspects of Windows Live where you get massively increased storage, a personalised homepage, an improved search facility, plus local maps and directions, among others. Sound familiar?