I’ve been thinking about Google a lot recently and how my personal online life is dominated by Google tools. The list is impressive. Here are the Google tools I use most:
- Search – Google.com
- Google Toolbar for IE and Firefox
- GBookmarks for Firefox
- Google Apps for your Domain for brevoort.com (GMail, Docs and Spreadsheets, Calender, GTalk)
- Google Reader (every day)
- Feedburner
- Picasa
- Picasa Web Albums
- Google Maps
- Google Earth
- Google News
- Google Desktop (ok, sometimes I use MSN desktop)
- Google Analytics
Best of alll? I don’t pay a dime out of pocket for any of it. At work we purchased the Google Search Appliance at work for our internal sites and we use the Google Maps API internally for a location search. I’ve been experimenting with Google Mashups and I recently started looking at Guice which is a new Inversion of Control (IoC) framework (think Spring).
So is Google evil? Has my privacy been infringed? I can’t say. Maybe I have “sold out” a little, but at least I’m not paying for it!
Mike, hats off to you that you break your collar bone, 2 days later in such good clear headed spirits!
I like the google maps. the street view is cool.