Now that Robert Scoble’s back from his vacation he’s ready to go to the moon. He wants to think big. Inspire big. Succeed big.
Among other suggestions, he’d like to give every Windows user one Terabyte of online storage. Just imagine what developers and users could do with this much space he argues. Not a bad idea–especially if this is part of a larger initiative to provide backup and sync facitlities. I’d argue that this type of service is needed already–especially as more and more people own more than one computer–including desktops, Tablet PCs, UMPCs, XBoxs, Tivos, auto navigation systems, cell phones, and on and on. We need to be able to share data, profiles, apps, and more. We need to be able to backup our photos, our work, our experiences. There’s lots to do here.
Unless he’s planning on handing me a hard drive, I don’t want it. I’m not putting my data on anybody’s servers but my own.
Two things here: One is whether you want to place your stuff in what amounts to “public storage.” I agree, that for many people this will be unacceptable. That means we also need to see good “personal” storage, sharing, syncing technologies too.