Google Apps For Your Domain

Google has just announced the release of "Google Apps for your Domain." The communication and collaboration tools include Gmail, GoogleTalk, Calender, and GooglePages. With an administrative control panel you can customize these with your branding, color scheme and content, without having to buy expensive server hardware that has to be maintained. These services are completely free (as they should be), but the end-user agreement hints that there may be a premium version in the future that Google would charge for.

This may work for the small, small business, but a larger company will need support and uptime guarantees. One thing I don’t understand is why they wouldn’t list their spreadsheet and word processor online apps here. Aren’t they as business-y as IM?

In other Google news, some big deal with Ebay and Skype is happening now…but that’s nowhere near as exciting as business-branded Gmail is it?