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Few of my personal Favorites.

1. Who thought that gmail will get a big welcome and user space in the world wide web email service usage. The simple user interface and elegance in look and feel is definitely to be appreciated. In those days, we had to get invite from a friend to get a new gmail account which was in it’s beta stages. It’s never like yahoo where you can get a free account just like that. But still this approach was widely welcome and people felt the seriousness of using an email account.

2. The ajax technology was brilliantly consumed with the idea of maps. I could see even now many services making use of google maps. Gpedometer is one cool application everyone must try.

3. Orkut made a huge impact on social networking business. Now every Ram, Rahim and albert uses this networking service. Another big impact. How people use the service is another issue. But it’s one stop place for all friends meet and share.

4. Brought in a great deal of integration with a single signon mechanism. I like it when i could open that .rtf file in google docs even in my machine with no office suite installed. I also use zoho at times. But prefer google docs.

5. Google docs is my favorite application and it’s got much more potential and future. I would even afford dollars of subscription if it can maintain my documents online (time when i become operating system free). Google gears is another interesting story to make impact in the world of off line working. It’s really worth giving it a try. It’s in beta stages i guess.

6. Not to forget, the revolution it made in the web search. And it’s pretty well supported by Firefox web browser too with a ready made default search box. I guess they fund the project more than any other company. But of course we can always choose to use a different search engine at our own will. Still google tops there too.

7. My latest interest is the GWT. I am quite positive about it. But still it’s very early to say how it impact the client side industry. There are hell a lot of competitors trying to bring in that layer of browser independence. I have always been reluctant to using such layers of programming tools and comfortable writing raw javascript code on my own. But who knows, i may have to work on such a technology some day.

8. Blogger is one thing which i am not much impressed since i could not find new features like i find in wordpress. But still i use it because i get a theme which suits my blogs.