Wow, this is cool!
I really like the premise of this. I've got a friend who works at Google and set up some apps for our church, since some of us are using Office and some OpenOffice (free software) that never seem to be as compatable as advertised. This obviously won't completely replace Office software, since there isn't a graphics or database program on google (yet). However, for what it has, this is a great way to share documents.
My concerns would be that a) Google's servers are secure, and b) that my computer/internet service are strong enough to let me be online for periods of time, with other applications/sites open and running, to let me create/edit documents. I have never had an internet connection with enough memory that I'm not hanging for a while...my processor on my hard drive (with enough RAM) might be faster.
I think this application might work better for my husband's data/photo sharing issue that I mentioned in Thing 7:Wikis. This might work better - it is probably more secure, and everything could be loaded into a document, downloaded to each computer as needed and deleted if information is no longer needed. I'll have to look in to this more...
As far as the library goes, I think this is a great option for not having to purchase software licenses (at least as things are set up today) and to offer these programs from all internet computers. However, then each computer must be set up for internet access (unless they can ONLY go to the application site, like our catalog computers) and longer time limits may be needed.
I DID play Excit, and got stuck on level 6. Addicting, to be sure...
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