The news about Google is starting to get interesting – in terms of the scope of what they are addressing now.  Google seems to be building a vertical stack of services to cover almost everything to do with the computer.  This goes back to what Jeff Jarvis said – Google makes money when we use the web (advertising, advertising, advertising) – and faster means more:

  1. Google announced today they’re planning on testing out a new 1 gigabit internet service (http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi) – so they could be in the neighborhood soon.
  2. Google has a DNS service (http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/) – the magic thingy that translates the names we type in into the numbers that define the internet.
  3. Google has Gmail – it’s free web-based e-mail service.  It has a corresponding calendar, contacts, etc. service.  One concept of calendars is you can share them – have group calendars, etc.
  4. Google has it’s Google Docs – word, processing, spreadsheets, presentation, etc. – so you can do those basics online. View full article »