Little Toy Robot

Google Notebook looks like some sort of cross between Furl and, well, Yahoo Notepad. Not as robust as either, but a much more simple execution. And of course, Ajax.

However!

Although it is possible to share notebooks publicly, I am wondering if it is missing the boat with the social aspect of this. Whence the tagging? Am I too spoiled by Flickr and del.icio.us (both Yahoo companies, by the way), that I don’t see the point of sharing anything unless I can view a tag cloud? Perhaps.

Another note (ha). This is purely speculation, but the Firefox extension that is available, in order to capture text and links online to add and edit in your notebook, seems to be having a disagreement with my browser (1.5.0.3). It’s nothing Microsoftian, but I’ve been turned off enough to uninstall the extension and wait for an update cycle or two. I am reminded that, this being Google, Google Notebook is still in beta (if even that–the page simply bears the Google Labs logo).

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 at 9:04 pm and is filed under google.