Google Introduces Page Creator 307
Seoulstriker writes "Google has introduced an AJAX web-publishing application called Google Page Creator. The app is great for getting whatever photos, information, files you want published, and it doesn't have to be in the typical blog format. The published site is hosted at the gmail user page. There are several templates and page formats to work from, and as far as I can tell, everything is WYSIWYG. The published HTML is very clean, but it does have some leftover fragments from editing pages repeatedly. If you want to be precise, you can manually edit the HTML. There is a Google Groups page available for the service. It took about 30 seconds to get a rudimentary page online." PC World has a quick rundown on the service at their site.
How good is it (Score:4, Interesting)
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The Shotgun Effect (Score:5, Interesting)
Microsoft and Google have this in common. They both did one or two things extremely well which resulted in insane success. Soon after this, they both started producing products in all conceivable fields.
Now, I agree with the author in the case of Microsoft as they started making products that anyone would buy just because the name "Microsoft" was on them (Visual J++ [wikipedia.org] anyone?). I just created my homepage [googlepages.com] and was frustrated with how little I could do. Oh well, what did I spend on this? Nothing, a few seconds of my time, that's all.
I'm completely happy with Google trying to re-invent everything because when they do, it's more or less free for me. There's no harm because I didn't pay a ton of money for the product like I would have in Microsoft's case.
Overall idea is to make more money (Score:3, Interesting)
I am dam sure; they are going to introduce paid web hosting (Ghosting).
.Goo (Score:2, Interesting)
We have gPhoto and gWeb, Mail.app and Address Book. It's arguable whether Spotlight and Google Desktop share any direct inspiration (I don't think they do), but the upshot is the same there as well. Do they make gCal yet? Is gSync necessary even due to their web focus?
I await gMovie, gDVD, gTunes, gArageband with interest.
Cheers,
Ian
Re:The Shotgun Effect (Score:2, Interesting)
Google is just a millionaire on a spree.
A bunch of their offerings are currently so trashy you wonder why they've put the embarrassments online:
- Google Video, the ugliest storefront on the web
- Google Pack
- Google Talk
Re:file hosting limit (Score:3, Interesting)
In the 30 seconds I used it, it:
I call that a usage limitation...
Re:Misunderstanding of google strategy (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:How good is it - it does NOT VALIDATE ;-) (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:A sterling job on the XSS defenses though (Score:2, Interesting)