Busy week for Google

T-Mobile releases the G1, Google exposes two existing services, helps the world, and takes part in the Election 2008.

September 26th, 2008 at 9:00am — Comments: (0) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: Google

Wow, what a week for Google!

T-Mobile G1/GPhone

Of course, the G1 was released this week. I was waiting for the dust to settle down to find out if this was an iPhone killer or not. From what I've seen on CrunchGear with their roundup, it's pretty close, but not quite an iPhone. There are some features missing that may sway a consumer one way or another.

I'm still wrestling with paying $179 for the phone with a $25/$35 a month bill.

Google Contact Manager

The Contact Manager has been screaming to be built and released to the public since GMail was created. As you would expect, this manages your contacts throughout every Google service that deals with users.

It has a nice clean interface, allows you to set up groups, and add pictures to your contacts as well.

Google Moderator (apps engine)

Ok, it really isn't an existing service to the public, but according to Matt Cutts, Google Moderator existed internally at Google and was used for teams asking questions.

Google Moderator lets anyone ask a question and letting the users vote the questions either up or down as to which are the most important they want answered.

This moderator would also be an excellent way for companies to conduct feature matrixes for future products (i.e. Submit a feature for this future product.)

Google 10 to the 100

10 to the 100 is a call for ideas that help as many people as possible on this planet. Your one idea may even be worth $1 million dollars. Maybe even more.

Google has committed $10 million to implement your ideas and projects submitted through Google.

If you wanted to make a difference in the world, this would be the place to start.

Google InQuotes

Ok, let's cut through the poltical horse hockey! Since the Election 2008 is upon us, the media is feeding us so much information on candidates, we don't know what is right or wrong.

So, Google has created Google InQuotes. This takes all of the people running for office and collects all of their quotes regarding political issues. So if you want to see what Obama said about Iraq as opposed to what McCain said, check out this site.

It may sway your vote.