- “Throwing in the towel is not how great companies are built. But competing with an entrenched market leader without a differentiated strategy is also not a winning hand.” (A VC)
Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009
Here’s the debut of Google Wave…
Read about it on TechCrunch:
Gmail IMAP for the iPhone (video)
Google Trends
The new Google Trends tool is pretty cool. You can use it to compare the relative popularity of competing services, products, teams, etc. Similar to Google Finance, the graphs include related news stories as reference points. Here are some examples:
Trying out the new Google Page Creator
I tested out the new Google Page Creator and, I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with the WYSIWYG tool, but I’m not really sure where they’re going with this. I was able to build this page in about 20 minutes. I just worry that this is going to be Google’s version of Geocities. This one-line review spotted on Flickr pretty much sums it up: “No RSS? What is this for, cat photos?”.