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I'm investigating Google Apps. I'm very impressed, but waiting for the 12-minute overview video to come back online (it's currently unavailable) before I write the meat of this post. Meantime, I've been trying out the individual components that make up Google Apps:

Here is my Super-Easy Website, created in about 15 minutes using Google Page Creator. The potential power of this tool when combined with other Googlish online apps is incredible. I foresee great things.

Update:
Ok, I've seen the overview video now and looked at some of the implementation examples for Google Apps, and I'm officially impressed. If I start a business or organization of any kind, it'll be using Google Apps.

Here's what's involved: All the various Google services and online applications (Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Start Page, and Google Page Creator) are bundled together and set up inside your organization's own domain:

Gmail
Everyone gets an account to access their email via Gmail (the email addresses are your own, i.e. "somebody@company.com," not ...@gmail.com), and that same account logs them into all the other Apps as well.

Calendar
Each person has their own calendar, and teams or departments can make shared calendars. There are even "resource calendars" for booking meeting rooms and reserving equipment. To set up a meeting, you "invite" open time periods on the calendars of other people, and they accept or decline.

And all the rest...
All the other Google tools work together seamlessly too, safely inside your own network. It's very cool and potentially very powerful.

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