Announcing Google Drive Site Publishing

It's not quite as convenient as copying a public link in Dropbox, but you can just copy and paste the unique id string from the share link, like:<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/folder/d/{id}/edit" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/folder/d/{id}/edit</a><p>To:<p><a href="https://googledrive.com/host/{id}/" rel="nofollow">https://googledrive.com/host/{id}/</a><p>And it works.

It's funny. I spent a while yesterday trying to find a free easy and secure way for anyone to publish static websites, but couldn't find anything that was like the Dropbox public folder option. And now Google comes out with this...<p>I guess I'll have to update my post <a href="http://www.zappable.com/2012/11/the-zappable-guide-to-finding-a-web-host/" rel="nofollow">http://www.zappable.com/2012/11/the-zappable-guide-to-findin...</a>

&#62;We look forward to seeing what you create, and we’re happy to answer your questions on Stack Overflow.<p>A little bit OT, but using Stack Overflow rather than their Google Group is kind of odd?

Are custom domains supported ? .Like github?

To me this doesn't sound very exciting. To publish static website/contents programatically , why would i bother use this and not Github pages? It's easier and more programmers friendly too, since it's git.

Does Drive still lack Delta Sync, where only deltas hit the wire? For me that is the biggest advantage of Dropbox.

I have made a video tutorial and step-by-step guide here. <a href="http://www.tweaklip.com/internet/50-publish-static-website-using-google-drive" rel="nofollow">http://www.tweaklip.com/internet/50-publish-static-website-u...</a>