Thread: Anyone use Google Docs?

A friend of mine has a small business with 3/4 employees and uses it all the time. He says it's good. There are very few foibles.

Whats googled docs??

Regards

Stevo

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

A friend of mine has a small business with 3/4 employees and uses it all the time. He says it's good. There are very few foibles.

Sounds about the same sort of size as one I run. Thanks for the help.

Originally Posted by stevo68

Whats googled docs??

Regards

Stevo

Uselful post Stevo.....very useful

Just found this so will research a bit more.

On September 15, 2008, a "huge security breach" – which allowed users to enumerate, view, and edit each others' files – was discovered by a security researcher in Thailand and posted on the ISC2 site. Believed to be due to "JavaScript error in the way in which Google manages user sessions", Google resolved the problem and declared it a "unique issue on our end in combination with a local ISP". The researcher suspected that other Google applications using the same session management code were also vulnerable, and that there "may be an underlying XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability as well".[4][5]

Originally Posted by stevo68

Whats googled docs??

Regards

Stevo

Here is a story on it.

It's basically free online spreadsheet, word processors, mail etc. It's has lots of good features for sharing and maintaining documents with a group of people. It's Google doing anti-MS.

Mick,

Have a listen to this podcast and then decide.

Background Briefing - 14 September 2008 - Cloud computing

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Here is a story on it.

It's basically free online spreadsheet, word processors, mail etc. It's has lots of good features for sharing and maintaining documents with a group of people. It's Google doing anti-MS.

I'm sure that the apps work just fine.

The issue is broader than that though - Google is becoming incidious. When it's just search facilities of public web spaces then that's probably ok (let Google then make money from advertising) - but do you know what they will do with your documents - can they "mine" them, cross reference them with your (or anyone else's) gmail, cross reference them with your videos on youtube, watch your behaviour on multiple web sites and cross reference that using google analytics.

When you have an "ID" with them (and no doubt you will have to sign up with a google ID for Google docs) - then there is nothing to prevent them from cross referencing your private and business documents with anything else that they have about you, or anyone/anything listed in your documents.... do you really trust a commercial monopoly ?