Google’s been upgrading a lot of their services lately. One of the most noticable ones is that they combined Writely and Google Spreadsheets into one product “Google Docs & Spreadsheets.”
The new interface looks good, I like the color combo better than Writely’s original one. As for the features, it doesn’t look like those have changed that much.
Google Notebooks and Google Reader are the two that have a more noticable feature upgrade.
You’ve always been able to ‘publish’ your notebook so everyone in the world can view it. But sometimes you want to work on things together. And now you can. In the sharing preferences of your notebook you can invite users to edit your notebook.
They also have a nice way to view all of the published notebooks an author has. For example, here’s my public notebooks.
Google Reader now has the #1 feature I’ve wanted this whole time. To be able to delete subscriptions, and have the feed items associated with them deleted as well.
Other than that, the UI for the reader is much better too. Much, much easier to use. Google even created two widgets for their Personalized Homepage feature.
One lets you view your notebooks, and one lets you view recent articles from the reader.
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