Comments on: DocSyncer Bridges Your Desktop With Google Docs

By: DocSyncer Merges With The Deadpool | Tipstech.info

DocSyncer Merges With The Deadpool | Tipstech.info — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:26:53 +0000

[...] DocSyncer had established a strong user base, having accumulated over 6 million documents since its launch last October. A mere six months ago we reported that the company was “going [...]

By: DocSyncer Merges With The Deadpool

DocSyncer Merges With The Deadpool — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:16:23 +0000

[...] DocSyncer had established a strong user base, having accumulated over 6 million documents since its launch last October. A mere six months ago we reported that the company was “going [...]

By: Cliff Shaw on lessons learned and moving forward » ColoradoStartups.com

Cliff Shaw on lessons learned and moving forward » ColoradoStartups.com — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:47:53 +0000

[...] Cliff Shaw is a Boulder-based entrepreneur that I first met a little over a year ago when he was launching ProtectMyPhotos. Here’s my coverage of that startup in November, 2006. He and his team had a nice earlier success called Family Tree Legends, which exited a few years back. Cliff and his gang also recently launched DocSyncer which is a seamless way to synchronize documents stored on your local machine with Google Docs. DocSyncer works well and it has people talking. [...]

By: Business Hacks mobile edition

Business Hacks mobile edition — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:24:27 +0000

[...] Sometimes I still use Word because I’m more familiar with it and I know the cool shortcuts. (Though, as Rick points out, many of those work for Google Docs as well.) But now I don’t have to choose, or even manually convert my Word (or Powerpoint or Excel) docs to Google docs. I downloaded DocSyncer, which batch processes every office document on my computer and saves it as a Google doc. As TechCrunch points out, this service—which automatically updates your Google Docs with the latest version of your offline file—allows you to work on a file either as a Google Doc or as an Office file and not have to worry about…. [...]

By: Effective Collaboration: Michael Sampson on Being Effective with Collaboration

Effective Collaboration: Michael Sampson on Being Effective with Collaboration — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:56:47 +0000

Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (October 18, 2007)…

The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Dealing with Baddies … Ideas for dealing with rude or unprofessional coworkers … mainly when you can be there in person to do something about it. How do we handle this…

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:22:58 +0000

I still think ThinkFree has the best choice. Desktop and web syncing without using MS Office.

By: Johnson

Johnson — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:33:42 +0000

@EJL

I’m sure it just scans your hard drive for files that match MS Office formats. It should work fine for Open Office if you use MS Office supported formats.

I wonder if it searches for native Open Office file formats?

By: EJL

EJL — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:57:06 +0000

This would be great for me, … if they synced Open Office docs.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:08:40 +0000

It’s easier to just abandon your desktop and get a wireless card and a laptop.

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:49:26 +0000

@Jonathan, it’s only 1 way from the PC up to the web, not the other way. The same way CuteFTP, dreamweaver or Komodo synchronizes local changes with ftp, except it does it with file system notifications on document types.

They REALLY need to consider getting a Mac and Linux version done, and we can do that for them for about ~120k per year with long term support.

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:12:59 +0000

How about privacy? I would never give a third party company my Google account details…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:09:07 +0000

Am I the only one that finds this scary? What I don’t want is me making a change on Google Docs and then finding that the formatting is well and truly messed up in the original! I would think it would have to copy text only or perhaps create revisions of original .docs, otherwise I could find my entire document library messed up.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:01:32 +0000

This is a pretty good idea, though we really need a complete, affordable storage solution rather than all these disparate individual solutions. Google needs to step up to the plate and offer 25-50 GB free storage.

By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:54:10 +0000

@Ryan

Foldershare is great, but it doesn’t solve the problem of having my documents automatically synced with an always accessible web location. If I could auto-sync a folder with my Box.net account I’d be in heaven.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:32:59 +0000

Ryan, I am using Foldershare, but it’s a totally different animal

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:04:21 +0000

If you’ve already got MS Office, try using FolderShare. Works on Macs and PCs. Let’s you sync any type of file between your own computers or between friends’. Microsoft acquired this company 2 years ago. http://www.foldershare.com

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:56:33 +0000

That’s supposed to read “be mocked on digg.com for insubordination to the “cool” platforms.”
We’ll support this app on Mac and Linux for years to come for you, with no payroll and low development costs.

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:55:00 +0000

@Cliff Shaw,

Dude, you’re totally missing 2 platforms, namely, mac and Linux. Let beerco software corporation port your app to these massive platforms. OR, or you can lose customers and mocked on digg.com for insubordination to the “cool” platforms.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8606487@N03/

The inotify event can be used to monitor docs on Linux and we can use file system notifications for Mac as well. Google Desktop Search on Linux does that. It’s no problem and we can get it done on time and with 2 coders. One to create and maintain the mac and one for the Linux GTK version. All the code will be written and unit tested in BLAZING fast gcc/g++ compiled C++.

flickr.com/photos/8606487@N03/1507113327/
flickr.com/photos/8606487@N03/1507113317/

Don’t let your VC money evaporate before hiring us to port this genius of an application to Mac and Linux. As in hire us before that happens.

By: Vijay Chakravarthy

Vijay Chakravarthy — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:41:21 +0000

I would assume Google is building something similar using their Google desktop widgets framework.

Wouldnt be very difficult to build, just a simple bi-directional update check and download/upload capability.

By: Niraj

Niraj — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:35:27 +0000

I’m still anticipating a Google release for Google Docs that uses nothing more than Google Gears in your web browser, online or offline.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:30:26 +0000

And on the one article where a Fake Steve Ballmer comment might be hilarious, he doesn’t show.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:28:29 +0000

This would be nice if it worked with legit MS office docs not this Gaggle crap which we are going to sue the pants off of these wannabes over!

By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:25:41 +0000

What about Office 2007 file format support? I hope I can upload/open my docx, xlsx, pptx files

By: tercume

tercume — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:12:29 +0000

nice program, really thanks

By: Just M Today

Just M Today — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:43:52 +0000

Not sure if there is a large market for this, because it only works with Google Docs.

I made my own sync solution using the iMacros web browser macros. The macros sync my Excel data with several online services.