Me: Search: Usually GMail: I have google set up as the MX mail server for my parrot-farm domain. Use it all the time. When you get mail from u...@parrot-farm.net, google did all the heavy lifting. Google has a nice set of mail domain management tools. Calendar: Yes Maps: All the time, except for when google can't find a route from Haines, AK to Haines Junction, YT, CA. It's only about 200 miles, how hard could that be? GoogleEarth: Yes, To help plan out my Alaska/Canada motorcycle trips. Google Translate: Occasionally Google Youtube: They own it, remember? I use it frequently Google Chrome browser: Yes. It's faster than Firefox. Blogspot.com: Yes, obviously. Google Docs: Yes, to store media being served up on a variety of blogs. Google Images: Yes, ditto. Google Adsense: Yes! I actually made enough money from advertising on the first LANL blog to buy a nice dinner for two at El Meson. Google Picassa: Yes. Google Talk: Occasionally. Chrome OS: No.
No to the rest on Owen's list. --Doug On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > On Feb 10, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > Disagree -- their (hugely successful) advertising platform is built upon > and relies on their "architecture" to achieve the monstrous circulation it > receives. The two aspects of their business plan are intertwined and cannot > be separated if *True Google Enlightenment* is to be achieved. > > > OK, then lets take a poll of how folks use Google: > > Search: Generally, although Yahoo has been giving me better results lately. > GMail: I only use it as a login to the rest of google. Never as primary > mail. > Calendar: Yes, for everything and for integration with friends and > sfcomplex > Maps: A lot > Earth: Only for a toy. > Desktop: Nope, crashes my system. > Chrome: No, not ready. > Google App Engine: Yes, like it even though its incomplete and likely to be > ditched. > Maps API: Yes, built a GAE app with redfish that was fun and interesting. > Google Data API: Yup, Steve used it for tiny graphs in GAE app, its very > cool. > Docs: No. Read others and post stuff I make on my desktop. > Apps: Can't even figure out why they call it that (its business web > hosting) and why its wonderful. > Groups: Yes, as the site for Thinking Mathematically seminar Nick built. > Code: Some, OK for repositories, but will likely move on to GIT. > Wave: Tried as part of Nick's seminar but it fell apart and is not used > anymore. > > That's enough for a start. How about the rest of us. As you can see, my > use is pretty isolated rather than integrated. > > -- Owen > > >
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