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Google Adds Shared Folders to Docs

By | October 12, 2009, 3:32pm PDT

Google announced today that it was adding shared folders to Google Docs. With shared folders any file placed in the folder is  shared amongst people with access rights to the folder.

To share a group of items, all you have to do is put them all into a folder and share the folder. As you’d expect, if you add an item to a shared folder, it will automatically be shared and if you add someone to an existing shared folder, they will instantly get access to all of the folder’s content.

So now you can have a single folder containg Docs, Spreadsheet or Presentaiton files. Sick.

Other features added include easy to upload multiple items and more for a complete list see the Google blog here.

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David Greenfield is the principal in STAnalytics. a global technology-marketing consultancy where he advises enterprises on emerging technologies. He primarily functions as the product marketing manager at Silver Peak Systems.

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Dave Greenfield

Much to the chagrin of his clients (and his wife), David Greenfield remains an independent thinker to a fault. Little wonder he's strongly considering an investment in the Trojan body armor. His firm, Strategic Technology Analytics (STAnalytics) provides independent content, insight and analysis to many companies. Current and past customers of his that may or may not be covered in the TeamThink blog include: Audiocodes, Infoblox, Objet Geometries, On-State Communications, Phone.com, Silver Peak Systems, Skype, and Spigit. He currently holds stock options in Silver Peak Systems.

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Dave Greenfield

David Greenfield is the principal in STAnalytics. a global technology-marketing consultancy where he advises enterprises on emerging technologies. He has spent the past 20 years analyzing virtually every area of networking technology. His work has appeared in leading technology publication such as PC Magazine, Network Computing, IT Architect, and Data Communications in the past 10 years focused on real-time social software. He has consulted to and assisted Fortune 500 enterprises in their technology acquisitions. He was the editor and a blogger Network Computing and today works as the product marketing manager at Silver Peak Systems.

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RE: Google Adds Shared Folders to Docs
Ceridan 13th Oct 2009
Ummm looks like a feature from Office 2010 (webservices)...
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Can I add any file type?
francis.carden@... 12th Oct 2009
I hope they are not limited it to just docs. A shared file system would be
cool - and then the ability to map a drive - I know there are tools for this
but from google - that'd be cool happy
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thelivo 12th Oct 2009
but they seem to be moving in that direction....
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RE: Google Adds Shared Folders to Docs
facebokguru 13th Oct 2009
Can every type of file can be shared with this folder.
is there any restrictions (read, read/write,allow to download or not)

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