Google @ school

I hate to say I knew it would happen, but 3-4 months ago I put together this strategy map of where I thought Google was heading.

I focused on education because I work for an education company. But this will happen in the corporate world too.

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Google will offer an integrated suite of single sign-on private labeled applications in all of these areas, and more:

• Communications
  Gmail, Google Talk 
• Scheduling
  Google Calendar 
• News, data, education
  Google News, Maps, Earth, Book Search, Google Video, Google Trends, Reader, Scholar, Blog Search 
• Collaboration, sharing, social media
  Blogger, Groups, Google Base, Page Creator 
• Productivity, creation
  Writely, Google Spreadsheet, Search (yup, they still do that), Translation, Picasa, Sets, Sketch-up 
• Safety
  Safe search, Google Pack

All roads lead to Rome? All roads lead to Google.

If anyone is still wondering why Microsoft increased their projected R&D spend enormously just a few months ago, you can stop. Now you know.