Cool Google projects

[Thorin]

Okay, so we've all heard of Google Calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar/.  And yes, it is pretty cool, especially given that it's a web-based UI.  We might even start scheduling D&D sessions through this.



But has anyone seen Google Page Creator: http://pages.google.com/?  It's like Frontpage, but without the crashes, without having to install anything, and oh, you can upload files to their servers to use for images, and stuff.  If you have a GMail account, try it out.  I managed to throw together a neat themed page in a minute.  I wonder how much storage they'll give us for that project?

[Darren Dirt]

But has anyone seen Google Page Creator: http://pages.google.com/?  It's like Frontpage, but without the crashes, without having to install anything, and oh, you can upload files to their servers to use for images, and stuff.  If you have a GMail account, try it out.  I managed to throw together a neat themed page in a minute.  I wonder how much storage they'll give us for that project?

I presume you meant http://thorin.googlepages.com/





Wow, that's a really nice webpage creator thingie...



I spent 30 seconds looking at the features, no playing around yet. But check out the huge # of choices when you click "Change Look":







(!)

[Thorin]

I think there's more looks if you change the layout.  Page Creator supports dual and triple column layout, as well.

[Darren Dirt]

re. the Google calendar service:



"If people needs further proof of AOL and Time Warner's lack of understanding of the Net and the software/IT world besides the firing of all the programmers on Netscape's payroll that were contributing for years to the Mozilla project, one dark day in 2003 - people who was an invaluable asset for the corporation, allowing it to control its own software destiny and create more opportunities to itself, I refer people to Netscape Calendar. Yes, very few people remember it, but it worked, and it was active. Archive.org keeps a copy I think, dating back to April 1999. Until Netscape management decided to shut it down."



From http://theinquirer.org/?article=31363



Wow, WTG, AOL management!



(those screenshots linked above, wow, they are pretty similar ain't they? )

[Lazybones]

Hotmail had a free calendar as well. I loved it, then they took it away and made it a pay service.

[Darren Dirt]

Google's ongoing projects, wow I didn't realize how much they have released so far (much of it "Beta" but hey Puhbeta, Puhbahta...)

This multi-part article discusses where Google is "going", especially focused on marketing and Google's competition. In other words, it talks about the practical benefit of the various Google projects:

http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/8420.asp