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Google is on the good path, showing to FaceBook what should be a fair policy about data interaction. All datas in Google exportable, data liberation project team is aware of this, providing APIs to all the services of Google to extract at any time any data stored in Google services. It is not the case of other mayor players like FaceBook from which any data entered couldn't be exported, the most important being the social graph. Users should not accept this.

Competition in the cloud file management will be hard. Dropbox, Box, Drive, Skydrive, .... great actors, with a lot of interesting features. I think Box missed the opportunity to have a great Google Apps integration, they didn't follow our suggestions, implementing Google Docs is a very odd way, and Google now has done with Drive what Box could have done years before. So for most of our customers, it's better to use Drive than Box, even if Box features are by themselves more interesting. But with no correct integration of Google Docs, this doesn't allow to use thme in the google Apps environment.

A lot of problems with privacy in Google Buzz. The good thing is that Google is learning very quickly and changing the rules. The other good thing is that when Google Buzz will arrive in Google Apps, we can hope that privacy problems will be solved. The bad thing is that they could have anticipated all these problems...

About the business model of services like Google Wave, and why Google should be more careful before to launch products or before to kill them! Because even if the product has not a great success, the impact could be important.

Microsoft seems to be very afraid of Google Apps. Here is one of the videos they are launching to try to demonstrate why to stay with Microsoft instead to go to Google. The problem is that each of their argument can be reversed! And that in this video they are defending a very traditional approach of computing, even if they could embrace the new one...

Very good overview about the "real name" policy of Google+ and the problems of user account deletions.

In case you did not see it: Someone kindly posted this spreadsheet comparing Google Apps to Microsoft's BPOS.

The best way to compete with Microsoft: allow MS Office users to use Google Apps servers instead of SharePoint! And migrate smoothly to a full cloud-based collaborative solution.

Google Docs may soon enable live, simultaneous editing of Microsoft Office documents thanks to the recent acquisition of DocVerse. The teams have a shared vision of enabling easy collaboration for Office users, and may end up signing up a few new businesses to Google Apps in the process.

That could become interesting.

Google se fait donc juge et partie pour la question de la rétention des données.

C'est une démarche importante de la part de Google, et fondamentale pour l'avenir du cloud computing. Et donc pour l'adoption ou non par les entreprises du concept

there is a few errors on the features, the guy is not updated on new changes in both Google Apps and Office 365, but it is interesting.

Cela va commencer à devenir très mauvais pour le business du Cloud. Les géants du secteur ont intérêt à se protéger de leur plus grand ennemi qui semble être les services secrets de leur propre gouvernement !! D'autre part si toutes les données circulent en clair à l'intérieur du cloud privé de Google, c'est un peu catastrophique, car n'importe qui arrivant à s'infiltrer pourrait lire ce qu'il veut. Pas très sécurisé tout ça !! Snowden rend un énorme service en tout cas, il faut vraiment le décorer d'une médaille, car j'espère que cela va faire bouger les choses.

Lancement de Google Earth 5.2 pour les professionnels avec un accès à des informations plus détaillées

Intéressante analyse des réseaux sociaux en général et de ce que pourrait être le prochain Google Me. A suivre de près.

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Interesting thoughts about the end of Google Wave

Interesting feedbacks about Google Apps' marketplace.

Very interesting analysis about how FaceBook could be bigger than Google in a few years.