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Google continues to roll'em out

My prediction re: GOOG's aspirations continues to unravel... here are three recent articles that bring us way closer to a world where everything is web-based... running through GOOG, or a GOOG-like company - kicking MSFT on it's ass (except for in the corporate world where stupidity will always reign supreme). I will put a small caveat that my good friend Lon made... GOOG has yet to develop a successful product since their search engine and related interfaces (note-I'm not counting products/companies that they bought).

Google's web-based word processor

In a small deal that signals big changes on the Internet, Google announced Mar. 9 that it has acquired a Silicon Valley sensation called Writely. The online word processor is still in the testing stage, but it's attracting attention as a free alternative to relatively expensive desktop applications like Microsoft (MSFT) Word.

CL2 - Google's web-based calendar

I am now in possession of screenshots from Google’s long delayed new Ajax calendar application, which will be called “CL2? (the CL2 login screen is here). It was only a matter of time before someone broke down and leaked these - as far as I know these screen shots are the first on the public web. Previous ones were almost certainly photoshopped fakes. These are real.

G-Drive Google's web-based storage

"With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc). We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthouse, but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today." — excerpt from Analyst Day presentation notes.

The GDrive service will provide anyone (who trusts Google with their data) a universally accessible network share that spans across computers, operating systems and even devices. Users will no longer require third party applications to emulate this behaviour by abusing Gmail storage.

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