1. Having access to everything on the go—through an iPhone an Android-based phone like Google’s Nexus One, a BlackBerry, or Apple’s new iPad.
2. Being able to search through all my e-mail quickly from any device using Gmail or Google Apps (see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7190).
3. Chatting with customers and partners—in any language. Matthew gave a very cool live demo of inline translation of chat; my Web site, eyeonthecloud.com, implements a translate button provided by Google. Last I looked, it translates the site into 52 languages on request. You can do use it too; just copy this code snippet into your Web page:
<div id=“google_translate_element”></div><script>
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
new google.translate.TranslateElement({
pageLanguage: ‘en’
}, ‘google_translate_element’);
}
</script><script src=“http://translate.google.com/
translate_a/
element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit”></script>
4. Easy collaboration with Google products Sites and Docs. (Lee Lefavre provides a great explanation of document sharing at http://www.masternewmedia.org/online_collaboration/document-collaboration/Google-Docs-explained-in-simple-words-by-Lee-Lefever-20070919.htm). Online collaboration has been a goal for years; it’s now coming of age.
5. Organizing travel using TripIt, a personal travel assistant (www.tripit.com/).
6. Easily collecting data from co-workers and customers using Google forms (see http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=15166).
7. Building a scalable business application on the cloud platform with Force.com (see www.salesforce.com/platform or http://developer.force.com/appengine) to create Web and business applications that span both salesforce.com and Google’s cloud computing platforms and take advantage of the key features of both.
8. Using online-templates for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
9. Running fast, secure, and stable Web apps (Chrome; see http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html).
10. Securely sharing video in apps with Youtube for Google apps (see www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080902_video_in_apps.html).
Source of Information : Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications 2011
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