Gmail as a general-purpose storage appliance

Well, it wasn’t hard but on the day Gmail was born I predicted it (among…hmmm..other not-so-precog statements). A free online gigabyte obviously triggers some nice ideas.

Today, GmailFS (via Urs) and Gallina, a Gmail-backed weblog, make the vision come true.

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