According to the SAN FRANCISCO March 8, 2006 AP story By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer. Google was quick to try to cover up an inadvertent leak about a project that it is working on called Gdrive. In this leaked internal memo, you can hear the echoes of the competition to the “Coil” by Kanosis, which is scheduled for a full launch on May 1, of this year.



The service that will be provided by the “Coil” of Kanosis and “most likely” by the Gdrive of Google will make it possible for the subscriber to keep all of his or her data at a “virtual lock box” so that they can be access from any internet connection by the user. It does not take a lot of imagination to figure out why Google and possibly other internet giants would want to be secretive about their work on developing such a service. They appear to have been caught with “their pants down” by a total newcomer on the internet scene. To admit that they are working on a project for such a new service would be equal to lending enormous credibility to the notion that such a service is worth being explored by the internet user. Unfortunately for them they are the latecomers to this party. Kanosis officials claim that their nearest competitor is two years from completing a viable software platform to compete with their “Coil”.

The question that one should now be asking is this. How can a Google or any other present giant of the internet fall so far behind to a total newcomer? And this in a marketing niche that should have been so obvious to everybody, especially those who are in control of most of the activities of the internet? The answer is simple and is as old as man doing business. Somebody has a brilliant idea.

He sees some obvious need and he moves to develop the product that will fill it. Soon he dominates the marketplace and grows to a huge operation. Big success always contains within itself the seed of becoming outdated. The big corporation has too many bosses, it becomes inflexible and unresponsive to the needs of its own customers. The new kid on the block sees the same needs but being small and agile he can move in new and innovative ways. He now becomes the giant as his products fill the new need, only to repeat the same process all over again. It is up to us as perceptive individuals to discern these cycles of corporate development and hopefully profit from them by positioning ourselves on the side of a winner. Is Kanosis a winner? My bet would be yes. Even though they are still at pre launch and subscription is available by private invitation only, their Alexa rating is already in the 20,000 range. This leak by google only serves to strengthen my impression that the smart money is on Kanosis.