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For a brief second after reading the title, I thought I might be getting a Google Drive client on Linux... jokes on me!

This (and other) Google status pages always impress me.

Starting out with when the problem was discovered, and then followed through with regular updates until it's resolution.

A simple "Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 6/4/14 12:39 PM with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience." goes a long way, and makes me feel better about using their services as a result.

Lack of encryption and lack of Google Drive support have held me back from using this as well. Let me know if you find out anything more.

It looks nice. I will give it that, but $5 bucks seems a little much for a notes app that can't sync across platforms as far as I can tell... not even iCloud.

Evernote, Springpad, Simplenote, and even Google Keep for iOS (when it is finally release) have syncing from the get go.

Great list!

I'm holding off to see what the 'Digg Reader' has to offer before making a final decision.

Looks like it's going to be Feedly though. I was pretty much sold when I heard that Reeder (iOS) and GReader (Android) will both sync with it.

Google announces a ton of cool stuff.

Here are some of Gruber's tweets during the keynote:

"Why is AAPL down ~5 percent on this?"

"Where’s Andy Rubin? Too busy?"

"“Requires all students to have a Google Account”."

"Why aren’t all these presenters wearing Glass?"

Biased, sarcastic, and condescending... why do people visit this guys website again?

Google Drive, SpiderOak, SugarSync, Skydrive, Amazon Cloud Drive, Box.net.

Why do people continue to upload and trust their data to this company? I closed my Dropbox account back in 2011 when they had that 'bug' that made passwords for any account optional for four hours.

Since then they have had more security problems/breaches, and admitted to user info being stolen.

Today's news isn't anything concrete... but their moderators were jerks, which makes the company look bad whether they are employees or not.

"Other than practical folks like Gruber ... "

I stopped reading after that sentence.

A friend of mine has a Facebook account for his dog.... tags pictures of him with the dog, and captions the photos: "This is my human... he picks up my poop hehe"

My head hurts when I think that 82,999,999 more of these accounts exist.

I prefer the term: Productivity Trap... and I have seen friends fall in to it. They will read and talk about new "exciting" GTD systems, and better ways to organize themselves.

I've seen them switch from: 'Things' to 'Evernote' to 'Omnifocus' to 'Trello' in the span of two or three months.

I'm all for being a more productive and organized person, but with all the time they spent migrating their tasks/projects to different task management systems, they could have just completed everything on their lists and more.

Looks like it's back up now. Google did a good job with this!

Starting from 'investigating reports Google Talk down' and following right through till service is restored with hourly updates is something that Amazon (and others) could learn from.

Just checked the list of apps I am 'hiding' from my News Feed... It's no wonder people are tuning it out:

Angry Birds Friends, Battle Pirates, Bejeweled Blitz, Bingo Island, Budweiser King Club, Camelot: The Game, CastleVille Daily Horoscope, Family Feud, Games on Mindjolt, Happy Pets, Hidden Chronicles, Hockey Pool, Horoscopes, Light of Nova, Lucky Slots: Reno, Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Miner Speed, Mirrorball Slots, Pet Society, QBet Casino, Quiz Whiz, Quotev, Ravenskye City, Ravenwood Fair, Restaurant City, SCRABBLE, Slotomania - Slot Machines, Treasure Isle, War Commander, Washington Post Social Reader, WeTopia, What is your old lady name?, Zoo World, Zuma Blitz