Aviary , the online creative platform is a visionary tool. When it launched a few years back, the irony of a Flash based Photoshop competitor was, well, ironic. With the launch of Aviary in Google’s App Marketplace , we can say that the company is close to making lightening strike twice, this time around creating a home for the creative professional and their most important assets. We want this to work – so we ran it through the paces. Here we got a front-line view on where cloud app meets cloud. We looked forward to counting the pixels that get wasted in the process. Sponsor Aviary and Google will disrupt Microsoft (the default filesystem for the world), and along side it Apple and Abobe, with this simple joining of services that allows users to create, share, publish and present with a simple Web based client and “always available” files. It feels like the tide has changed and soon it will be hard to imagine an app not defaulting to file storage in the cloud. In a world of cloud-hosted apps, writing to a PC filesystem just seems wrong and goes against the grain of a mobile workforce. The creative professional’s cloud is going to be in vivid color and available from the local coffee shop. As a clear sign of preparation for these applications, Google Docs

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Will Google’s Cloud be a Cozy Nest for Aviary?

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