Google should take note of Adobe’s use the web to maximize their core products. Instead of providing seamless integration amongst their web offerings (mail, calendaring, docs, etc), Google seems more caught up trying to build a simplified “Microsoft Office killer” in the cloud, and luring people into using it for its collaboration aspects. With every new announcement, the focus for Google has been on playing either a game of feature-by-feature matching or one-upping Microsoft instead of trying to solidify a brand experience for a collaborative suite of products. Even basic tasks, like making an email an calendar appointment, for example, are currently beyond Google’s reach.
ReadWriteWeb on Google
1 June 2008
7 March 2008
People working together to collaborate is an important skill in the real world, and what some people consider “cheating” these days seems a lot like the type of collaboration that kids are quite used to doing online, and which should serve them well later in life.
Techdirt on “Cheating”