Outside of its advertising business, I’m quite sure Google’s second major revenue stream is going to be its Google Apps business. Today, I was asked to participate in an online survey related to my experiences with Google Apps Premier Edition and it gave a fascinating insight into where Google is likely heading with this stuff.
Firstly, [...]
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 [...]
If Google’s acquisition of Writely has any of you Web 2.0 folk jumping up and down thinking the heavens are about to open up and rain gold, then sit down, put away your umbrella and take another Squash reality check.
Over the past week, I’ve read any number of blogs congratulating the Writely folk for selling [...]
UPDATE: I’ve just woken up to find the Google/Writely thing was on the money.
The Great Om reckons there’s a rumour floating around about Google buying Writely.I’ve got some thoughts (surprise, surprise)…
Regular Squash readers would be aware of my AJAX Challenge, whereby I’ve been holding out installing a desktop Office suite to see if AJAX alternatives [...]
BTW, on the Ajaxian blog it says that Google is developing an AJAX-based web page editor.
I’ll submit that as Exhibit D to support my thesis that Google is very, very focused right now on going head-to-head with Microsoft’s Office Live initiative.
One of the biggest reasons I’ve been switching to online apps is because I tend to use a few different computers. I have a laptop, a computer in my home office, a computer in the family study and I will quite often jump onto a different PC at work if I want to do something [...]
A lot of excitement around about 30 Boxes right now. Om says its the GMail of calendars. Thomas Hawk says Best Calendar Ever!
Scoble wants Microsoft to buy it, WordPress Matt is digging it (as in the old fashioned sense of the word) and Stowe has also joined the chorus.
Problem is - calendars aren’t stand-alone apps. [...]
I’d like to give two awards to SpongeCell, an AJAX calendar that got written up in TechCrunch today called SpongeCell.
The first awards is our F*cking Woeful award. SpongeCell? Dudes, that is truly an inherently bad, bad name, but it’s an even worse name for a calendar app. If there’s a single person out there able [...]
Google was talking up the fact that Picassa is now available in 25 languages. And if you speak Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Tagalog, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Catalan, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, or Vietnamese I’m truly very happy for you.
But when oh when is Picassa [...]
I’m getting well used to using Writely now. Really the only thing its missing for my day-to-day use is an automatic spellcheck. Having become used to Word’s automated red squiggleys I now seldom remember to click on the red squiggleys. So if Squash typos are annoying you, blame Writely.
I now post directly from [...]
