Gmail Spreadsheet Integration

Today, someone emailed me an attached .xls spreadsheet file from Microsoft Office's Excel. My surprise was when google offered me the option of opening it in the browser with Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Gmail

I've been using Gmail for a long while now, more then one year, I guess. It puts together everything that I need from an email provider. There are some particular points that makes me think Gmail is the best email solution out there:

• Spam protection is the best out there, almost nothing comes through;
• More than 2800MB of available space, and always increasing, so that you can store all your emails for a long, LONG time;
• Incorporated Gtalk, for instant messaging , directly from the browser;
  
• It is now free and complete, no more invitations are needed, so that anyone can subscribe.

So, what are you waiting for? Go get your account!

Update:
Just found an article from techcrunch comparing google, yahoo and microsoft email platforms. Not only my opinion, by their data, google is really the best email of the three.

Web 2.0

I've just found a pretty nice video with a self-explanatory demonstration of what web 2.0 is all about. It shows google, youtube, flickr, wikipedia and a lot more of those sites that are changing our everyday living. It's just awesome how the cooperation is showed, and web 2.0 opened up.

War on Microsoft

As all of us already know, the Microsoft empire is being more and more attacked by a lot of other companies and open-source movements. In this image, we're able to see who's attacking what, with all the companies and applications names, from the Microsoft side, against some big names, like Oracle, Mozilla, Linux, Google, Apple, Sun and several more!

Os motores de pesquisa e publicidade estão agora a oferecer prendas nesta época natalícia a quem publicita nos seus serviços, segundo o que nos conta Shimon Sandler, que acaba de receber da google um ipod shuffle .

Google aconselha Firefox 2

O google passa agora a recomendar aos utilizadores do internet explorer que façam um upgrade ao seu browser para o firefox 2.0. Desta forma, o google toma partido não só pelo software livre, mas também por um dos browsers de qualidade em maior expansão no mercado na actualidade.