Today Google is launching a new product for the enterprise market, Google Video for business. It's a new application in the Google Apps office suite, enabling workers to upload and share videos inside their organizations. Videos can be shared on an individual, group or company-wide basis. Google sees it being used for such things as executive communications, product training, trip reports, "social videos" for the company intranet.
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news... Read Full Story
Google didn’t intend to launch Google Chrome today–honestly, the news leaked and so it was forced to bring forward the launch. This leaves Google’s planned launched of Google Video for Google Apps sitting in the shadows.
If, like me, you’re a Google Apps Premier Edition user, you can today enable Google Video sharing for your organization. What’s it for?
share videos with individuals, groups, or the entire organization
add descriptions and tags
embed videos in any internal web page... Read Full Story
As a paying Google Apps customer, the lack of communication during recent outages left a bad taste in my mouth.
I’m pleased to report that I just received an email from Google with details of many improvements coming our way. These are much needed and welcomed.
We’re committed to making Google Apps Premier Edition a service on which your organization can depend. During the first half of August, we didn’t do this as well as we should have. We had three outages - on August 6, August 11, and... Read Full Story
A cross-country road trip "to show some love" to a few of the thousands of schools that use Google Apps. By: Cloud Computing News DeskAug. 18, 2008 08:05 AM http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/646144/print So the Cloud can help students learn, too. Google intends in September to launch a cross-country bus tour called "App to School" so that the company can speak with college students about how cloud computing can benefit education. "We're looking forward to meeting students to talk... Read Full Story
If I am to believe my good friend Jeff Nolan then Zoho has won the office productivity arms race. Jeff attributes this to the tipping point ‘win’ of 400,000 GE seats. Jeff quotes from WebGuild where an un-named GE person allegedly says:
A GE spokesperson who did not want to be identified said their decision was based around issues of personal and corporate privacy, functionality, support, features and Zoho won hands down. The spokesperson said the Google application was intrusive and the ads... Read Full Story
