Wow, am I ever excited at what this could mean. Google Base is now also a payment platform. Google is currently only taking a cut from payment processing not listings. Hopefully this forces Ebay to take a good look at themselves and realize their fee structure is out of control.

As the number of Google services has increased, we’ve continued to build on our core payment features and migrate to a standard process for people to buy our services with a Google Account. Examples of this migration include enabling users to buy Google Video content, Google Earth licenses, and Google Store items with their Google Accounts. We also just began offering similar functionality on Google Base.

Looking ahead, we want to continue building payment services that meet the needs of Google users and advertisers. We expect to add payment functionality to Google services where our users need a way to buy online. For us, it’s all about bringing our users a better online experience whether they’re searching or buying.

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We talked about all the different 37 Signals products a while back, and they have a new one, called Campfire.

It’s a cart program aimed at business users, and I think the most important question when someone whats you to pay for a web service is “Why should I pay for this then I already have a free IM (icq, aim, msn, aol, yim)” Well I was happy to see that they answered this on Campfire’s main page.

How is Campfire different from Instant Messaging?

Instant messaging is great for one-on-one chats, but it’s not optimized for group chats of 3 or more people. Further, instant messaging is network dependent — if you are on AIM, and your client is on MSN, you can’t instant message. Campfire, on the other hand, is all about simple and quick network-agnostic group chats. It’s a self-contained, password-protected web-based chatroom that allows groups of up to 40 people to chat and easily share files together. No instant messaging software is required — all that’s required is a web browser. More on why Campfire is better for group chats than IM.

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Listible combines the power of tags with the power of voting.

It’s pretty neat, I think if it reaches critical mass it could be quite useful, but until then it will have a mostly tech focus.

For example a search of ’soccer’ turns up one list with 3 entries, while ‘web2.0′ on the other hand turns up tons of lists with hundreds of entries.

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I have to say Krugle actually excites me, I’ve been wanting a way to search the source of webpages for ages and finally it is coming. In addition to gathering the code that makes up webpages it will also index the code of open source projects.

If I were a programmer (and learning some programming is on my list of things to do, “note to self get some techbooks) this would be a dream come true. In fact maybe with the help of Krugle I can learn to program or solve my problems once I start trying.

I do have to say it’s a pretty unoriginal name though.

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It is here. 30 Boxes is here. From the creative minds and talents of 83 Degrees. For anyone who has been looking for a sturdy and comprehensive 2.0 Web Calendar than this is definitely for you. 30 Boxes comes complete with all the basic features of adding events to a calendar, but it also incorporates a lot of more functionality. And it just released yesterday!

You can share your calendars with other people. You can incorporate a buddy list of people and keep tabs on where others are and what they are up to (great for team management). The interface also allows you to continue tagging your events in order to keep everything organized.

One of the things that I am very happy to see comes by way of the developers blog. They talk a lot about how they want to keep it “hackable” and allow people to modify 30 Boxes to suit their needs. Whether it’s just a theme or going through and utilizing the full third party developer’s API you should be able to make 30 Boxes do almost anything you could want your calendar to do.

Even if you think you’ve found your perfect fit for an online calendar solution, please jump on over and sign up. It’s free! Just give it a try and see if you don’t fall in love with it.

30 Boxes | It’s Your Life

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EmemberMe is a task management tool. You log in enter your reminders and it will notify you by email of text message to your cell phone.

It’s a nice looking service, I think the cell phone reminders are probably the best part, but these days most cellphones have a calender anyways. Still pretty cool, if I didn’t have to pay to receive text-message I would probably use them. I see no real value in email reminders since I can just use my computers calander, but reminders that alert you on the go while using your cellphone is definitely of some use.

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The big talk was when the big boys of the tech and web industries would jump in to the development of an office suite. This is a logical step in using the web as a platform. Have all the power of an integrated office suite at your fingertips always on the web.

The fine fellows over at gOffice have completed that task. For free you can have complete access to a Web 2.0 office. Have the ability to do word processing, presentations, and spreadsheets all live in a completely cross-platform environment.

So if you’re looking for the next step in being able to ditch your desktop then gOffice is definitely going to have to be a stop in your route to that goal. I have used in some brief extent and I do recommend that people, especially those interested in Web 2.0, take a look at this new app.

Chalksite is a new creation looking to facilitate the needs of teachers and students, or anyone in an educational environment, through the web. The application is still in development and we did not get to test it just quite yet, but from the sounds and looks of things this might make a big push towards improving the efficiency of the classroom.

Teachers can organize their students by class and by period. They are able to maintain messages for the class, assignments, and their gradebook all online. So students who want to check something do not have to wait till class to question the teacher. With Chalksite they now have the ability to check online what their status is.

This appears to take a lot of the basic features of project management, which is common among the 2.0 apps, and putting it into a specific realm for the school and class management environment. I look forward to seeing Chalksite once it releases, and hopefully we’ll see schools start moving over to the system.

I guess it’s time for laptops to replace books.

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