Attending the Google day events here in Kampala, we were showed a variety of Google products by the Google team from the famous search engine GOOGLE to a number of different Google Apps and products. Google has invested heavily in several software applications and the best thing about these Applications is that most of them are freeware.
After the Google day events I have found myself more inclined to using the Google products than others if Google has an alternative, testing and using the several applications that we were introduced to us, I have become more impressed with Google!
Currently using some of the Google products like Google sites check http://tinyurl.com/288b7z7 blogger, having set up an Adsense account and use Google analytics to monitor the visitors and my different sites, blog and picasa web album.
I also set up my first Google Apps Standard Edition for a small company here in Kampala and they are really excited at the prospect of having their company email on their own domain name, despite the fact that outlook failed to work well with the Apps Mozilla Thunderbird is doing really fine. More details of this project will be posted here when completed.
Google also announced recently that African bloggers who use adsense could be paid using western union as credit card penetration and use in Africa is still low. I hope many more African bloggers can use this service!
However shockingly Google has had several other very useful applications which I thought were not really well marketed or really hyped for one reason or another, apart from Google Mail (Gmail) and ANDRIOD several other applications like the Google Maps, Directions, Docs, Sites, Adwords, Adsense, Admob these were not really marketed yet they had been in existence for a while!
Regardless of all that I still think GOOGLE with all of their products KICK ASS!
