google.com — Now you can offer private-labeled email, IM and calendar tools to all of your users for free*, so they can share ideas and get things done more effectively. You can design and publish your organization's website, too. It's all hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain.
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barnisAug 28, 2006
this is old apart from integration with pagecreator which seems to be newly added to my dashboard...i clicked enable and nothing seems to happen though and it doesn't show up in the upper left under the area where you can switch to calendar, etc...i'm not sure if they've really enabled that for even the beta users. Does anyone know how users of google for my domain can use this?
potherAug 28, 2006
And what about Customer Support?When a company needs to actually TALK with a Google representative to get some help, what's the phone number?Oh WAIT! That's right.Nothing goes wrong with Google's services! So they only have a email support that feeds you canned responses.Maybe I'll go see if they've fixed my G-mail account so I don't receive similarly user-named person's messages. I've only been waiting over a year for an actual person to reply to my attempts to get support; so long that I gave up on Google to provide anything but SEARCH long ago.Can't wait for the stories of companies getting screwed by their lack of support.
gopherchucksAug 28, 2006
I still don't think google is going to be harvesting information from a company's server... it's their software, sure, but we'll find out soon enough whether or not google is sniffing the traffic. This stuff all runs on my "company's" website, yes? Well, logically, the data would all be stored on my server too. If that's the case, I can defend my rights to my information. I'd have to read the EULA and TOS to be sure, but it's 6:30 here and I've been up all night... so i'm not gonna do that. Just puttin it out there.
calleroAug 28, 2006
Posted a couple of times already, marked as duplicate
tmilamAug 28, 2006
Did you guys read the ToS?"Confidential Information. In connection with performance of its obligations hereunder, a party (the "Discloser") may disclose to the other party (the "Recipient") certain information that the Discloser considers confidential and/or proprietary ("Confidential Information") including, but not limited to, tangible, intangible, visual, electronic, present, or future information such as: (a) trade secrets; (b) financial information, including pricing; (c) technical information, including research, development, procedures, algorithms, data, designs, and know-how; (d) business information, including operations, planning, marketing interests, and products; (e) any bugs, defects, security problems, and other issues relating to Google Apps; and (f) the terms of this Agreement and the discussions, negotiations and proposals related thereto. The Recipient will only have a duty to protect Confidential Information disclosed to it by the Discloser: (1) if it is clearly and conspicuously marked as "confidential" or with a similar designation; (2) if it is identified by the Discloser as confidential and/or proprietary before, during, or promptly after presentation or communication; or (3) if it is disclosed in a manner in which the Discloser reasonably communicated, or the Recipient should reasonably have understood under the circumstances that the disclosure should be treated as confidential, whether or not the specific designation "confidential" or any similar designation is used."Speaks volumes for itself, read it here: <a class="user" href="https://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html">https://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html</a>But why should I need to tell you to read the ToS? You always read that before you sign up for a new service, right?
paulmaundersAug 28, 2006
@barnisI've enabled the page creator features today on my hosted dashboard, and it worked fine for me. I had to create a cname DNS record:www.maunders.net. 3600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.That then enabled a new feature under the "services" section on the left hand menu of the dashboard. I could then edit the page and publish it on my domain <a class="user" href="http://www.maunders.net">http://www.maunders.net</a>I think this is going to have a huge impact eventually. Google's page creator was a pretty cool app for allowing the average PC user to build their own web page, but one of the major drawbacks was the fact you had to publish it on their googlepages.com. By combining it with their hosted apps package, everyone from homeusers to small businesses will be able to manage their own website without needing any special skills or third party help, and the best thing is, if they ever need to migrate to a more powerful hosting infrastructure they will be able to take their domain with them and any links they have acquired over the years.
myliconAug 28, 2006
Microsoft Office Live was previewed sometime last year. Apparently MS thinks it is worth money to make their Office apps web-based. Pretty smart move on Google's part to compete.
barnisAug 29, 2006
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barnisAug 29, 2006
@paulmaunderscan you post more about what you mean by CNAME...any google documentation of these steps?