Every Tuesday is Kitchen Sink day at Living Behind the Curve.
Google may not be evil , but they do seem awfully focused on taking over the world. On May 22, the Financial Times ran an article on Google’s goals for the future. In the article, Eric Schmidt is quoted as saying:
“The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’ ”
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
Don’t get me wrong - I am a GFan. I live in my GMail, GDocs, and GNotes, and if something isn’t on my GCal, it doesn’t exist - we missed Mer’s mom’s birthday this year for precisely that reason. Hell, before GReader, I didn’t read blogs, and I used Opera as a podcatcher. We also route our RSS feeds through a recent addition to the Google family, Feedburner (maybe I should say GFeed?).
Waitaminit. It may sound creepy when Mr. Schmidt says it, but I already *do* ask Google these things. My GCal tells me precisely what I’ll be doing tomorrow. I have resumes for the past 5 years or so archived in GDocs, and if I ever need to use them again, the responses will be routed through GMail. Egads, you astound me, Google. I didn’t even feel a thing.
Did Google eat your brain, too? I’d love to hear your GThoughts…
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I am also a google addict, though I don’t use it as much as you do! But with their new iGoogle portal, that is quickly changing.
@Jtrumbore: Believe it or not, I only started playing with iGoogle a few days ago. I tried configuring everything there, but I find myself falling back on the full browser versions of my apps. With textless favicons on my Firefox toolbar, it seems easier. I love the widgets, and the drag/drop capability of iGoogle, though.