Google+

Bottom line, it visualizes your networks well and makes it relatively easy to delineate using those ingenious circles. Like SQL for humans via good design. Can't wait to see it evolve. I've found a few bugs, but for some modes of communications, this will be Google's biggest "social" hit so far. Not a giant barrier, mind you.

The Ultimate Mashup in the Sky with Diamonds

Just finished reading ReadWriteWeb analysis of the Google App Engine and I immediately thought of Apple. The companies are BFF's now, which makes me question everything the Big G does and how it might fit/fight a future Apple directive.

Google App Engine is a huge thing, potentially. Huge for Apple too. Imagine integration with iPhone. Let's face it, while installed apps will shortly take over, cloud-based apps or cloud-aware apps on iPhone are the future of computing. Among one of the potential opportunities: finally the ability to sync everything. That's a lot of moving parts, but something we're working on already, right?

Perhaps I'm being optimistic. But I can see a lot of future B2B action between Google and Apple. The more the two brands co-mingle, the greater they become. And ultimately you need a lot of inertia to displace Microsoft in the business space. While I love FileMaker to death, I have to wonder what a "real" data system via Google could do with an OS X front-end that works similarly (but better) to Access. Would that be the "all in" needed to make the iWork suite compete?