Google Reader Update
Google’s popular RSS feed reader Google Reader has been updated ! It used square edges now, no more rounding ! And it’s easier on the eyes as far as I can tell now. You can read more about it on the Google Reader Blog: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/12/square-is-new-round.html
Google: LOL I R In Ur Feedz
Will Google buy feedburner and rull the world ? Scoble has a nice roundup of posts for you to consider ! (title of this post inspired by I Can Haz Cheesburger)
Jotspot acquired by Google
Was a bit surprised to find this (in my gmail box no less): We’re writing to let you know that Google has acquired JotSpot. We believe this is great news for our users. More importantly, we want to reassure you that you’ll continue to have uninterrupted access to your account. It’s starting to become obvious that Google is trying to assemble a complete ‘online office’ solution. They now have offer email, spreadsheets, a wordproccessor, agenda and with jotspot, another great online collaboration tool. I had been trying Jotspot for a new software project for work and it seem to work wonderfully. You can put documentation, spreadsheets, an agenda etc. all in one place (a wiki), and give rights to people on the project that need it...
Google Demo Videos
Just read one of Scoble’s latest entries on his Scobleizer blog and I think he’s right on the money. It would be nice when google would have a channel9 type site, where they show some of their products (they have an incredible amount of stuff out at the moment) and show some of their features off. And make it a bit informal, not marketing talk ofcourse.
Google Notebook
Google Notebook has been out for a while, but I just recently started using it. It’s really very handy if you want to keep track of ideas you have on a certain topic, or doing some research on a topic and want to save urls, and web content and want to access that from multiple places. Sometimes I want to save some work related links when I am surfing at home. Before I used to email them to my Gmail account, but now I save them in my Google Notebook. As you can see it sits quietly in the bottom of the screen if you have installed the firefox extention. Then you can select a piece of the site you’re looking at, bring up the google notebook and then select add note. Then you can add some text of your own, if you want to, give it a title and you’re...