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Google launched what looks like the first part of its long rumored online office suite, named Google Apps for Your Domain, late last night. Currently, the service, in beta, requires filling out a short form and pleading your case to be included (which I did, though I doubt I’ll be allowed in). Once approved, you can select from Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Google Pages to build your own suite. Use as many or as few as one, it’s up to you although I’m sure that at a minimum you’ll want to use both the mail and calendar to take advantage. I haven’t visited Google Pages since it was launched but, unless it has improved tremendously, I don’t see anybody getting too excited about using it. Google Talk probably won’t fit too much into the decision process to sign up either. As expected, the service is free while in beta, but the wording is such that I’m not sure what, if any, price may be attached when it is out of beta (which in Google’s case could be years).
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Ziki, the personal content aggregator I’ve written about before, is testing a new feature where they purchase Google AdWords for some of the names of their users — including me! — to make sure you show up at the top during searches on your name. Sound familiar? If you’ve been reading this blog it should, that idea also happens to be the entire feature set of Naymz. The difference being that Ziki, as far as I can tell at this point, is offering it for free as an enhancement to their already nice feature set. To be fair, Naymz also offers a free version in addition to the $5/month service. Unfortunately, they don’t offer anything else.
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I completely adore Gmail and would use it for 100% of my mailing needs if I wasn’t tied to an unmentionable enterprise mail solution I’m forced into using at work. But that’s beside the point. Google has updated Gmail Notifier to include functionality for Google Calendar and renamed the handy utility Google Notifier, which I assume is due to its extended usefulness for some. Personally, I haven’t been able to get myself to fall for Gcal the same as I’ve fallen for Gmail, so the additional notifications won’t do much for me. It is interesting, and a bit odd, that Google hasn’t released this small yet excellent piece of software for Windows users yet. I’m sure it’s on the way.
The only downside I see is it no longer works with Growl for system wide notifications. Oh well, maybe in the next update.
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