Google 2.0

Google 2.0 Julia Gross

ACTIVITY
How many Google products do you use?

Google, the elephant in the room

Google products
Gmail free public email
Google Docs free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation
Google Chrome web browser
Website creation tool
Picasa photo sharing
Personal page = your profile page

Blogger Blogs
BLISS Blog
ECU Library Blog

iGoogle start page

Google account

Google Research tools
Google Scholar
Google Blog search
very useful
competition for Technorati
Google Book Search
Image, Video, Photosearch
Alerts

Google maps and Streetview

Google earth

Google reader RSS

Google analytics

Google Groups
Graduate Research School

Other Google tools
Google Lively
virtual world, was Second Life rival, no more
Google Voice (US)
one phone number linking all phones and voicemail
Google Chrome OS
just announced, operating system in 2010
challenging Microsoft

Google Wave

Google’s Carbon Footprint
Is that Google search really necessary?
Google search performed from a desktop produces about
7g of CO2
boiling a kettle 15 g
Disputed, all highly contentious
Google aims to reduce carbon footprint
moving servers to regions of low cost energy
eg Washington State

References
http://mashable.com/category/google-lists/
http://mashable.com/category/google/
Google Wave Video
http://cnettv.cnet.com/google-wave/9742-1_53-50072681.html?tag=api