At the speed of Google

Google, what are you doing?

First you scrap a perfectly practical, light offering called Google Notes. The product served its note-taking purpose perfectly well and didn't need much support. And then you killed it. You killed it hard.

And now you announce that you are killing iGoogle, a wonderful personalised homepage that brings the web to use by way of useful widgets and RSS feeds. I have used iGoogle for about five years or so and love it, as do countless others.

I also use Google Blogger for my blogging platform but upgrades to the interface have been few and far between. It's still alive but the day may come when Google pull the plug here as well. Ditto for Google Picasa on-line.

Ironically, my reason for using so many Google products was that the company's size, expertise and financial strength increased the odds of innovation and probability of product survival. Not the case.

Technology may move at a fast clip but Google time is much slower, sometimes stopping completely.