Late last week Google announced that they were not going to be launching any new services for a little while. Their primary focus will now be revamping their already released products. We have already seen evidence of this happening with the recent update to Google Reader.
This is definitely a good plan by Google because they need to work more on refining their products. The other thing that they said that they really want to do is integrate their services together so that users can easily take advantage of everything that they offer. I think that everyone has been saying that’s what they want for quite awhile.
The first thing that should become a central hub for their services is Google Talk. It should be working with their other products such as the Google Calendar and even the Google Reader to notify users of upcoming events or recent news. They do have several modules that you can use with the Google Desktop to bring your information together but Vista users, such as myself, may find having another desktop search application redundant.
well i think they should also create a system for managing multiple google accounts that belong to the same person.
it’s stupid that i have to log out from one gmail account 2 go into a different greader account. sure, i could just stop opening new accounts, but i had my reasons.
That is definitely a good point. I have 8 different accounts and it would be easy if you could share them all among each other so that when you sign into one you are signing into all of them. Or it asks you which of the accounts you want to sign into.
I’m just trying to figure out if they are really going to promote this kind of thing. All kinds of instant messenger should have this feature but they don’t which causes people to install unauthorized patches. They know that people create multiple accounts and they shouldn’t try to ignore that.
I don’t know about you, but I like the Google Calendar text message notifications feature. I don’t know how I would get gtalk on my cell phone…
Maybe have a limit to the number of accounts one can control? I have one used for registering on sites that are very likely to spam me, one for my website and my normal one.
Integration of services could really boost their services – especially linking Orkut with the Gmail address book, and having the little top blue ‘services’ bar not open new tabs for each service – just switch quickly between them.
Releasing their own Google Bookmarks Firefox extension could also help to further promote them.
I don’t use text messages because I get charged for each one. Otherwise it would be pretty cool.
I don’t know if they would release a Google Bookmarks extension for Firefox because there are already several that do a great job. The one on the Internet Explorer Toolbar is so basic that I hate it compared to the ones that are offered for Firefox right now.
Ah, text messaging is free for me. MyCrick.com