Google expanding services
http://labs.google.com/ridefinder It appears google is now adding Ride Finder to there mapping system. Google is going nuts with this mapping stuff lately. All they need now is a national wireless broadband access and a GPS reciever that interfaces there maps on any old laptop and they will have the corner on the mapping market. Also one thing that is very very cool I found the other day is GMail Drive. It lets you pretty much map your GMAIL account as a hard drive you can use to access from anywhere. Most of the articles on it I came across claimed that you need windows XP but it worked fine on a Windows 2000 SP4 box and a Windows XP SP2 laptop I have. My only gripe is that directory path/filename length is quite restricted. Perhaps in time they will come up with a better method of storing the file/path name so that you can store long file names. With the new infiniti +1 project from google I guess it is techinically an unlimited amount of space. Last I checked they were just over 2GB of space. It is still unreal. Unfortunately Google does not want to publicly support this yet and may shut it down but it is pretty cool. I wonder if there is a way I could setup all my 50 invites as 1 huge spanned drive. That would put me currently over 100GB available anywhere I can get on the net and would grow at 50x the rate of a single account!