Having sounded out a senior member of Google’s engineering team about Jotspot, it sounds to me like a first quarter launch of the wiki product is likely next year.
While not wanting to put a firm time-frame on the launch, he did seem confident that Jotspot’s re-emergence from its slumber was not far away.
It will be [...]
I have long maintained that the single, most important piece of any online suite is going to be the online storage/file management system.
This is another element that none of the big-guys have yet nailed. GDrive has not made an appearance nor has Zoho’s offering in this space, while Microsoft’s SkyDrive was a massive let-down. However, [...]
The new Google Docs & Spreadsheets revamp must surely be our first look at Google’s GDrive.
To me, this simply looks like an iterative move towards what is looking more and more like a full-blown online platform. Let’s look at what draws me towards this conclusion.
Firstly, the changes made to [...]
So Google today relaunched its personalised home page as iGoogle and announced the ability for users to create their own gadgets, which has received a bunch of coverage throughout the blogosphere.
Personally, it’s nice to see Google heading in that direction because it’s exactly where we’ve been headed with the Wyaworks Widget Creator (disclaimer: I consult [...]
Google today unveiled an Australian-specific blog, which is apparently the first English-language country specific Google blog in the world.
You can also set up a personalised version of google.com.au with themes now, and the direction appears to be that Google is setting about getting local.
This is going to be important. I have no doubt that local [...]
My company uses Google Apps and has upgraded to Premier Edition, but I’m bitterly dissapointed with the Start pages.
While Google has been rolling out its cool, new themes for the personal start pages, its Google Apps start page is still lagging about a million years behind. Still no tabs! Surely tabs are even more important [...]
A couple of weeks or so I blogged about how Google had switched on Docs and Spreadsheets for Google Domain for Your Apps.
It appears I managed to do so in the midst of testing, as other people in my company couldn’t get it to work, nor were they able to invite me to edit docs.
Today, [...]
If you have a Google Apps for your Domain account, you can now log into Google Docs and Spreadsheets using your Google-managed user names.
We’ve had our domain hosted with Google now for a few months, but I’ve held off moving away from my gmail user account because I like the single sign-in factor I have [...]
The one piece of the Google puzzle that seldom gets any attention but I believe is going to be an absolute key piece of the puzzle is Orkut.
Earlier in the week, Eric Schmidt gave a very rare insight into Google's longer-term strategies when he said in the big Newsweek Web 2.0 article:
Everybody thinks we're building [...]
Now that it’s unequivocally getting into the publishing business, Google is going to be a fascinating case study in co-opetition.
The big G is in danger of getting itself into a very tight spot. It’s main revenue business is acting as an advertising broker for publishers and media companies yet it continually creeps forward encroaching onto [...]
