I am a big user of Google products. My business uses Google Apps for email, calendaring and Google Docs. For this we pay a fee — a relatively small fee...but a fee, nonetheless.
I also use Gmail, have an addiction to Google Reader, have tinkered with Google Tasks and am one of the many new users of Google Buzz.
I also use YouTube for personal and business endeavors.
My simple request for Google: please, please, please provide better (any?) integration of paid Google Apps with your free services.
For example, why can't Buzz, Reader and Taks be made available in Google Apps (for which I pay a fee?) As it stands now, I have to keep both my Gmail and Apps accounts open and go back and forth between each to use these services.
It's worse on mobile where, if I wanted to make use of Google Tasks, I can only use through my free Gmail account — but would love to fully integrate into my Google Apps account, where my team does our business.
In addition, we can't se create a Google Profile through Google Apps? Would be excellent if I could create a profile, for example, for my business through my Apps account.
This post is somewhat of a rant, I know, and I'm told better integration is on the way. But I feel Google has some great potential here to own the project management/task/team collaboration space currently owned by companies, such as
37 Signals.
Our company currently uses 37 Signals' wonderful
Basecamp tool — but if Google fully integrated all of its tools into Google Apps as a one-stop shop for business owners, I'd drop Basecamp and go "full Google."
Just my two cents. Google, are you listening?
