@hientran hit me up following my original post on The Google Apps Value Proposition. He considered my omission of Google Video and video chat in Google Talk big oversights. So I’m back today to bring you those two pieces to the Google Apps puzzle. Video I wasn’t totally surprised by the announcement that Google was [...]
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been doing quite a bit with Google Apps recently. One of them is a non-profit that I’m associated with. The friend I’m working with on that (who works at the NPO) asked me today for some “talking points for selling all these services.” I shot [...]
I saw the announcement come through yesterday for the “developer preview” of the new Google Quick Search Box for the Mac. I immediately downloaded it and started working with it, not fully knowing what to expect. My initial response: wow, this could replace Quicksilver. For being a dev preview it seems quite impressive already. I [...]
I’ve recently seen various write-ups about Google Notebook, so I decided to take a look at it. I must say I was pretty happy with what I found. I’ll give the caveat that this is in no way a perfect product, nor fully featured…yet. There were, however, a few features of it that make it [...]
I was just having troubles getting into Google Reader to check my feeds, and once I was able to get in I noticed something different right away. There used to be a Refresh link at the bottom of the subscriptions section of the page, next to the Manage Subscriptions link. This button at the top [...]
Google — whether they admit it or not — is aiming directly at Microsoft’s hold on office suite software. They announced today that they will offer a “Premier Edition” of their Google Apps software to companies for an annual fee of $50 per seat. The fee-based version, Google Apps Premier Edition, includes five times more [...]