We're a small press with a unique business model: we print books but nobody buys them so we give them away to disinterested family members for Christmases and birthdays. Admittedly, the business model needs a little work.
I'm scared of Google because I'm sure that they are going to take over the World some day. Sure, they are all helpful and benevolent right now, but one day I could see the whole Google-verse turning into something right out of 1984.
Everything that comes out of Google labs lately is so good that it's scary. Now Google has unveiled a new service (well...as of 2005) that allows people to consolidate the various Google features and gadgets they use, ranging from web search to email, into a personalized home page, much like a portal and much like My Yahoo and My MSN, etc. - called iGoogle.
I must say that (to use a technical term) iGoogle ROCKS. My iGoogle page is set up as my browser home page with local weather, a calendar, my bookmarks, sticky notes, and tasks on the first tab, and then I have some ancillary tabs with other things of interest to me that I would only use perhaps once per day. Immensely practical for me right now, especially because my iGoogle is accessible from any machine.
I'm writing this right now from work into my Google Notebook which I have loaded as a gadget in my iGoogle. My iGoogle theme automatically adjusts according to time of day; the theme "sets" and rises" in sync with my local sunrise and sunset!!! I just finished checking my GMail, and Google Reader. Earlier I bought some gMilk for my kids "Goo" and "gle". Scary. If I ever see the Orthodox Church of Google (Churoogle) I may just snap. (if I don't start it up first myself :-)