Google obviously wants everyone to switch over to Google Apps for their email and office suites. I actually use it for all of my personal projects and love it, but getting my school to sign up to using it is a much bigger challenge. So sneaky Google has released “Team Edition” that makes it stupid simple to use the collaborative document editing and start page without getting your school officially on board. I can see the huge benefit to using this on the dreaded team projects in college. No more emailing back and forth. I can also see how this might come in handy in a classroom setting for a Faculty member sharing and collaborating with students on a document. Here is a video:

It makes me wonder how long before Google takes on a product like Blackboard. They really seem to be pressing hard in the educational market with their office solutions. I for one welcome them … until, of course, they become evil. Then I’ll grab my pickfork.

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