Ioannus de Verani

UPDATE: or not.

I will probably get flamed for falling for an April Fool’s Day joke, but I really believe that this one could be real.

Let’s suppose for one minute that the Google Drive is real thing and that they are now letting the cat out of the bag. Who do we know that is associated with Google Drive? Two people:

• Niniane Wang and
• Mark Ayzenshtat

Niniane Wang is supposedly the leader of the Google Drive team. Mark Ayzenshtat is supposedly the product manager (this information is taken from the post that was taken down from the Official Google Blog and the post that is still there on the Official Google Drive Blog).

In order to prove the occupations of these two people, what better place to look than their personal homepages? Check it out:

Both their pages say that they are working on a confidential project.

Moreover, they both have a history of working on some pretty high-profile google products; Ms. Wang worked on Gmail and Google Desktop, and Mr. Ayzenshtat worked on Adwords. If we read further, not only were they both working on big projects, but they both were in advertising-related projects (Wang lead the team for Gmail advertisement). Is it possible that the two are now working upon monetizing Google Drive?

Or… maybe it is just an April Fool’s Day joke.

Tags: google, drive, april+fools+day