Google everything.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 1 comments link this postIt makes sense to me.
I'm not sure how much it creeps me out, but it makes sense, the idea of the Google Operating System. What doesn't Google offer, really? I find myself, more and more, using Google Docs as my default document creation "software", handy for collaboration, private use, and publishing a document with a URL rather than attaching some clunky Word file and hoping people can open it up without asking me for help.
I use Gmail. Google Calendar. Blogger. Google Reader. FeedBurner. My homepage, and my parents' home page on the new computer are all Google, with all the features and widgets and access that will allow them easy access to their favorite blogs, email, and apps, all with extreme ease.
I can't tell you how extremely convenient it is to have identical access to documents and projects and other things I've been working on at any computer with an internet connection rather than having to move things around with flash drives or other methods.
Granted, they'll probably own the world in a decade and then won't have to even pretend to follow their informal "don't be evil" motto. So handy now, though. Handy and convenient on the way to being owned.
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Hat Tip: Jim
Labels: internet, technology
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 10/28/2007 10:59:00 PM
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1 Comments:
Interesting. I have found myself less and less impressed by Google in light of some of the privacy issues I've read about. (See http://gevil.org for a primer.)
Then I ran across these two tidbits about some of Google's behavior that leaves "Don't be evil" sounding pretty hollow:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/10/palestinian_militant_use_of_go.php
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/10/is_google_allowing_syria_to_pl.php
So, from here on, I am not going to use Google product or service. Yeah, they've got some cool stuff going. But I just can't bring myself to use it. It's not a boycott. It's a choice. YMMV.
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Roy Jacobsen, at
1/11/07 16:50
