Comments on: Deja page view

By: sean coon

sean coon — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:07:32 +0000

i’d be happy if google just give into convention and provide a simple means to navigation across my favorite services. a dynamic, lightweight, customizable dropdown at the top of each screen.

anything!

By: Old Grouch

Old Grouch — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:34:34 +0000

I belive the separation of functions comes from the Unix/Linux mindset, which values building good, single-purpose tools that can be easily chained together. (The “chaining together” part may come later.) For the “kitchen sink” approach, think MS Office.

By: David Martin

David Martin — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:16:54 +0000

Jeff, with all respect, kindly remember what the inventor of the multinational corp, Harold Geneen, was the first to say “synergy is a myth, it harms innovation”

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:42:46 +0000

the day when google takes advice from someone with jeff’s (utter lack of) accomplishments is the day i cash out.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:24:32 +0000

I think they will make WPC killer in time. I was impressed with the ease in setting up a fairly simple website, but I also agree that my socks weren’t blown off.

However, I think Google will make this a great tool in time….

By: janice

janice — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:01:23 +0000

Actually, I tried it out this morning. If you had to get up a few servicable web pages in under 3 minutes with an easy URL, it would work fine. It gives you a URL of yourgmailname.googlepages.com/whatever

So to me, even in beta it did not totally suck. That being said — my socks were not blown off .

My first thought upon hitting the publish button was about how easy it would be for every spam engine on the planet to derive my gmail address.

I then erased my page.

-j

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:47:50 +0000

“Google Page Creator is in beta. You expect them to tie a beta project in with some of their flagships?”

Their flagships???

All their flagships are in beta too.

At some point you have to stop riding your past accomplishments.

Google does search really well, everything else is mediocre at best.

By: Maverick Librarian

Maverick Librarian — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:23:37 +0000

Not that it matters much, since it seems they can’t even add accounts anymore. They are not taking new accounts, and if you already have a Google account, they offer to put you on a waiting list. Not exactly very dynamic if one has to wait. Then again, one can always go elsewhere.

By: foo

foo — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:30:01 +0000

How do you know they won’t do these things?

Google Page Creator is in beta. You expect them to tie a beta project in with some of their flagships?

Oh and… if you can’t use this for Blogger, you’re a non-technical yutz who has no business commenting. Google Video too; it’s easier than easy to include live google videos on any web page.

So maybe this is a pebcak issue.