• Google Chart API - Google Code: Holy shit that’s nifty.
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We use a fairly complicated spreadsheet full of formulas and pretty colors in my house to keep track of bills. This is shared on the network, but as it lives on my computer it is not available when my pc is off (alas, I have not got around to creating a fileserver yet). It occurred to me to me tonight, as I was filling in this month’s values, to try Google Docs & Spreadsheets and see if it might work for what I do. Incidentally, at first I couldn’t remember what it was called, so I googled “Google Office.” Any guesses what the first result for that query was? Anyway, so I click “upload,” upload my spreadsheet, click “share,” start typing the addresses of my housemates and they are completed from my gmail address book.

In short: yeah, so it’s over, and Google won. The end. Productivity applications are now commodity software, and Microsoft is so fucked.

• Breaking: Google Spends $3.1 Billion To Acquire DoubleClick: I wonder if there was any regulatory oversight on this. This does very nearly create an online advertising monopoly. MS and Yahoo may have no other choice but to gang up when it comes down to it.
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