Hello readers and welcome back to the Silentblast Blog. You read the title right! YouTube has reached a significant milestone of 1 billion views a day. On October 9th, the official YouTube Blog posted this article; on the achievement. I cannot personally begin to understand the complex of servers and facilities Google must have in order to operate the holdings that Google does both as a search engine and in other business ventures such as GMail, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Docs and so on. They must be adding servers to their stable by the hour.

Awesome accomplishment YouTube and in reality it couldn’t have been done without everyone who uses YouTube and makes it what it has grown into today.

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Hello readers and welcome to the Silentblast Blog. For this article I am going to mix it up a bit and since having read some articles on the Google Chrome OS; I thought that throwing my thoughts out there on the topic will bring something a little different to the blog.

Firstly, let’s look at some of the things Google does that are core to business and I am discussing this from a business perspective and not from a personal use point of view.

Internet Searching - by far the leader of the pack. Google is without a doubt the Alpha male in the wolf pack of internet searching engines out there. The word “searching” when referenced often in conversations is pretty much being replaced in many ways with the word, “Google.” The lines and differences between the word “searching” as it applies to internet and “Google” are fused more together than probably most people realize.

Gmail - A very popular webmail based application; as long as you are not using it for business in my opinion. Stick with your company branded email address for business. G-Mail being used for business just gives off that sense of you can’t afford to have your own business domain name and an email plan. G-Mail is perfect actually as a secondary dumping site for business email. I forward business email to it merely as a means of mass storage.

Google Docs - Google’s efforts of creating a “cloud computing” environment where the masses will do their documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online has come with mixed results. I believe that it is not widely adopted primarily on the basis that the features of installed software such as Microsoft Office or the open source equivalent Open Office are not available in Google Docs.

So if you look at all the above, Internet Searching which can be part of just being connected to the Internet as a whole, Gmail, and Google Docs; you have the three primary tasks associated with computers and business. So what does this have to with Google developing an OS? A lot actually. The OS is what will allow your computer to function and connect devices and ultimately perform the aforementioned.

I don’t think Google is going to create an OS like we know an OS to be; whether it be a Windows OS, Apples OS, or Linux and its many sub-derivatives. I believe that the OS will be more or less a program much like their Picasa graphic program that fuses and merges Google’s core utilities or services they have. I think more or less it will be a beefed up version of their browser Chrome.

From an impact perspective on Google Chrome OS taking over as the OS of choice I would be cautious of betting on that. Despite the efforts of Apple with their computers and their OS alternative and even free installations of Linux; the company and OS we all love to hate, yet still gravitate to is Microsoft and the Windows OS.

Curiosity seekers will of course try it. If by chance it is a full blown OS that essentially replaces the current OS you may have I don’t see business adopting readily. I would guess even personal users would be cautious of making such a move as well.

Where I see Google Chrome OS possibly having an in-roads is in the Netbooks market area. But Microsoft is pretty entrenched so far in this market in providing the OS and it will certainly be an uphill battle for Google to remove Microsoft as the current leader.

But there is certainly interesting times ahead for Google and of course computer users; no matter which OS you’re currently using.

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Yes, it’s true the new Google Browser is here and available as a BETA download to the public. My first impression…Not bad, I see a bright future for this thing. Watch out Microsoft, Google is on the war path now. As far as comments go, not much for now. I’d like to play with it and see how using it feels like. You can download it here: http://www.google.com/chrome

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Web 2.0 and collaboration web tools have exploded onto the web and users are thirsty for this type of “cloud computing”. Yup, you heard it cloud computing is at least what Google is referring to these days to their very powerful Google Apps system. The suite that contains Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Google Talk and sites. Google Apps allows you and your company to have a custom email address, tools for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, a shared calendering system and access to a flexible intranet system, as well as standalone security and compliance services are also available.

Today’s users are on the move, mobile computing is on the rise and users are getting tired of their hands being tied. Google is leading the charge and most recently have teamed up with even Salesforce.com to offer an amazing integrated solution which yours truly is currently testing out.

Let you know how that goes. Well, that’s it for now on this subject. I’ll touch on this in another post.

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