Google Apps for Your Domain

Google has just launched Google Apps for Your Domain. The service offers:

• Start page- Users can access email, calendar, news, weather and more in a single place.
• Email - 2 gigabytes of storage and search tools that help your users find information fast. Instant messaging from right inside their accounts.
• Chat - Users can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free – anytime, anywhere in the world.
• Calendar - Users can organize their schedules and share events and calendars with others.
• Domain web pages - Administrators can create simple web pages and publish them to your domain.

These are services that Google has offered in the past but the interesting angle is that Google now allows you to use your domain (rather than xxx@gmail.com). So far the service is free but I get the impression that this may grow into a revenue stream for Google.

Well worth investigating.