A few days before I noticed this news in a thread at the webdigity forum, the formerly online spreadsheet tool gets a brother a word processor.

Some people would ask why this, there are so many (MS Word, OpenOffice)?

Both programs Google Docs and Spreadsheats doesn’t have all the features from OpenOffice or MS office, but they have some nice online features which are not available in this big desktop applications.

Online sharing
It’s possible documents and spreadsheets with other users for reading and writing. Invite single users or large groups to read you information with the only requirement a web browser. (more…)

Google expanded the Google Gadget directory with a new function which makes it possible to use the listed gadgets or modules directly on your website.

This feature was already available for websites created with the Google Page Creator and is a useful feature for webmaster with limited coding skills. The only thing that webmasters need to do is to add some html code (IFRAME) to the web page. The Google Gadget control makes it possible to add some fancy frames to each gadget.

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Today I noticed a new feature on the Google homepage: Extra tabs to get new space for more Google gadgets, modules or RSS feeds. Maybe is this not the biggest invention but it will speed up your default page if you group frequently used modules or gadgets on a second tab. Maybe you like to add one of my own Google Modules; the RSS feed of this Blog or the some PHP script release information.

One of the first Gadgets at almost every personalized Google homepage was the the small personal bookmark list. For several users of this personal start page is the Google History also a useful tool to find website and SERP’s from the last days.
A few days ago I noticed that after the link “Bookmarks” on this start page is a interesting combination of both services:

• A bookmark list with labels to group your bookmarks
• the search history with new and optimized features
• some statistics about your past searches

Most of this features looks not very special but the combination works very good and give some useful features (give it a try). Of course there are so much social link communities, but non of them is so fast as Google Bookmarks. The bad point is that until now you can’t share your bookmarks, but I think thats only a matter of time…