The buzz about GDrive (feel free to skip this one)
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It is a bit obscene how the media gets in a tizzy anytime anything leaks at Google. (Yet here we are, participating). This time it is a scooplet on the coming GDrive, which is being secretly tested under the codename Platypus. Blogger Corsin Camichel fell upon it while sniffing around Writely, a Web-based word processor acquired recently by Google.
And so to be fair to Yahoo, we will mention their latest feature, Trip Planner.
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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
