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Google Apps Marketplace Launches At Google Campfire One
- pie 17y agoOf course... right when I was getting ready to launch a site meant to evolve into an app marketplace. Leave it to Google's serendipitous timing. Fortunately this is a complex space with plenty of room for competition and complementary services.
- itjitj 17y ago...you hope.
- robryan 17y agoI'd imagine with building into such a space on the back of apples success you'd be expecting some competition for the big players.
- bad_user 17y agoThe value in Google Apps is that you can integrate with Google's services. And apparently they are going to great lengths, like in GMail where you can add your own contextual objects (like they did with GMaps). But this is only for companies that are willing to switch to Google Apps.
- bretpiatt 17y agoI like the OpenID and OAuth choices. Hopefully this can drive serious adoption and we can work on building a more connected web.
- aditya 17y agoPretty cool. Perfect response to the Microsoft Social Connector (http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2009/11/18/announcing-the-outlook-social-connector.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2009/11/18/announcing-...) - which is typical Microsoft, no marketplace, no details, I can't even find the SDK! EDIT: of course - right after I praise them - I'm getting a 400 Bad Request on any app that I try to add.
- shill 17y agoMe-too-soft will have to follow up with their own enterprise app marketplace now. But it will suck because they can't execute. My money is on Google dominating this battle.
- stingraycharles 17y agoYou're forgetting the fact that there's already a very active market of addons for Microsoft Office applications.
- hexis 17y agoIt's really interesting to watch Google ramp up their apps to get ready for Chrome OS later this year. It really seems like they want to be ready to answer a lot of objections before the machines are released.
- lenni 17y agoLots of enterprise stuff! Are there any interesting apps for me as a consumer?
- kuvkir 17y agoI'd like to see a lightweight project mgmt tool, something like basecamp integrated into Google Apps.
- rajuvegesna 17y agoZoho Projects in integrated there. Similarly, there are other project mgmt apps.
- markkoberlein 17y agoThis is a smart move by Google. Hopefully, they will take this model and apply it to an apps marketplace for consumers so that anyone with a Gmail account can add third party apps to their Google account.