Google Office Released

Google Office was officially released yesterday, Monday, 28 August 2006. The applications included are Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Control Panel. Here's the blurb from the Google for your domain website.

Bring Gmail to your domain.

This special beta test lets you give Gmail, Google's webmail service, to every user at your domain. Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain.

		Gmail - 2 gigabytes of storage and search tools that help your users find information fast. Instant messaging from right inside their accounts.
		Google Talk - Users can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free – anytime, anywhere in the world.
		Google Calendar - Users can organize their schedules and share events and calendars with others.
		Control Panel - Easily manage user accounts, aliases, mailing lists, and chat settings.

Want to be part of this beta test? Gmail for your domain is currently available as a limited beta. If your organization is interested in helping Google test this service, we'll consider your domain for this beta. You'll need to sign in with a Google Account (or get a new one), and answer a few quick questions about your organization and your email needs.

Other posts/news about the launch:
Google Apps for Your Domain Live
Google in business software expansion
Google promotes hosted applications for enterprises

Reviews about Google Apps for Your Domain:
Ogling the Google Office
Google Office still needs some renovating

What's next for Google Apps for Your Domain:
Next Google Apps targets: Intuit QuickBooks, MS Money?

Google Domains

I was wanting to predict what Google will come up next so I looked for domains that Google owns. There are several websites that have this. (Here's one of the most useful.) You can even look it up yourself using http://whois.sc. But what I want to know is what the domains Google has recently purchased. Anybody know how to look for this?

Googly eyes

Googly eyes are large, bulging or rolling eyes. In googly-eyed (or goggle-eyed) toys, the eyes traditionally are composed of a clear, hard-plastic shell, with a smaller, black plastic disk trapped within. The inner black disk is allowed to move freely within the larger clear plastic shell, which makes the eyes appear to move. Googly eyes are often glued to inanimate objects for the purposes of personification, often with silly results.

The term is probably a variation on "goo goo eyes", denoting the wide-eyed, innocent look of a baby, whose early "speech" consists merely of sounds such as "goo goo". That term is also used to describe the look and behavior of people who are in love.

Another possible derivation of this word is the "googly;" a cricket ball that appears as if it will break one way when, in actuality, it breaks in the opposite direction.

The term was also the source of an aptly-named comic strip character named Barney Google. The character in turn inspired a song called Barney Google (With His Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes).

Examples of googly eyes

* Cookie Monster (of Sesame Street fame)
* "Darky" iconography; see Blackface
* Corniel the cartoon dog of Watch My Chops
* Bubbles of Trailer Park Boys

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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With the flurry of stuff coming from Google, I've decided to create this blog. With the googly eyes of the web, looking sometimes at different directions at the same time. A million hypotheses present themselves. Can we predict what's next for Google?