Twentysomething

Here comes the Live Drive

Exactly as I predicted last month, Microsoft is releasing it's own version of Google's G:Drive, under the Live moniker. Live Drive, as it will be called,  is currently under development and has been supposedly for the past couple years.

Microsoft reorganization seems to be paying off, as they are releasing/matching internet offerings much more rapidly than ever before.

Google Calendar releases

Google has released it's Calendar application, dealing a major blow to both Microsoft's Outlook and recent startup 30boxes, a strictly calendar online application. You can click here for a full tour.

I signed up tonight and I do think it's worthy of heavy usage. Some of the features include allows integration with other people's calendars, posting events for all users to see, and a variety of different time scales on which to view your calendar such as month, week and day.

Adding events is incredibly easy, due to heavy usage of AJAX, you simply click and drag the time your event is encompassing, and name it in a small pop-up. Wow. This, in hand with Google Finance, is the coolest Google offering I've seen yet. The user interface is top notch.

Count on Microsoft adding a product with similar functionality, most likely to it's already well diversed assortment of Live products.

Google poking into Real Estate Search ?

Is Google trying to own a share of Real estate Search ? Type in Homes for sale in google and you get dropdown menu allowing you to edit your criteria.

With the recent flood of online real estate search engines, it's no wonder that the kings of search want a piece of the action. The only problem is that they've chosen to do it by tying the search into their so far unsuccesful craigslist competitor, Google Base.

It is very important when the king of search takes up a vertical such as real estate. Achieving critical mass for their product should be their main goal in gaining a considerable market share of the real estate industry.