Google Pages Reviewed 164
Tam Hanna writes "We got access to a Google Pages review account. Get the full scoop on what Google Pages can do." The gist of it is that "Google Pages Is Not For You." It's for your mom ;)
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
And hear the sighs...... (Score:5, Funny)
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Woot (Score:2)
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Re:And hear the sighs...... (Score:2)
http://www.fbi.gov/?2006/03/29/google-page-creato
Is this supposed to be funny, has
Re:And hear the sighs...... (Score:2)
Re:And hear the sighs...... (Score:2)
The website just deflects the Slashdot effect. Check the coralized version : http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com.nyud.net:8090/2006/ 03/29/google-page-creator-review/ [nyud.net]
Re:And hear the sighs...... (Score:1, Redundant)
Hear hear!
-stormin
The Review is not for you either --- /. effect (Score:1)
Re:The Review is not for you either --- /. effect (Score:1)
The Slashdot Effect: REVIEWE@$@#%@%*NO CARRIER*
fbi.gov? (Score:2)
Duped Trash Instead of News (Score:3, Informative)
Apparently, a link to a blog with a couple paragraphs and screenshots of a service that has been covered before is newsworthy. Not in my opinion.
Oh, and if you go to that blog that's linked in the article, there is a "Contact Us" tab which results in the same e-mail that the author of this article (Tam Hanna) linked to their name. This isn't a review, it's a "Oooh, this is neat" article which is odd considering I have a Google Pages account and it's not that neat--it's functional and simplistic but limiting. And please do notice the ads (some by Google) surrounding Tam Hanna's blog. So they'll be making some cash off the Slashdot effect. What a tool Slashdot has become.
If you want an example of something they rejected to bring you a duped article, here's one I submitted this morning that some of you may or may not care about:
About a week ago, Robert Jordan [wikipedia.org] wrote a letter to Locus [locusmag.com] in which he stated he has amyloidosis. Amyloidosis is a rare blood disease that leaves patients with a median of one (no treatment) to four (with treatment) years left to live. He confirmed this on his publisher's website [tor.com]. This is devastating news for fantasy enthusiasts but on his blog [dragonmount.com] he spoke about the Wheel of Time series: "Worse comes to worst, I will finish A Memory of Light, so the main story arc, at least, will be completed." Let us all wish him a permanent recovery--if he can write the epic tomes of the Wheel of Time, surely beating amyloidosis will be trivial.
Re:Duped Trash Instead of News (Score:1, Funny)
I share your opinion. No way is this any kind of Front Page Stuff That Matters. More like Pimp My Blog.
Maybe the author is Taco's mom.
If so, he should get her a Google Page, 'cause her server's choking pretty hard already...
Re:Duped Trash Instead of News (Score:2, Funny)
It's not for you, it's for your mom.
Re:Duped Trash Instead of News (Score:1)
Re:Duped Trash Instead of News (Score:5, Funny)
OK. Firstly, the article isn't a dupe. It's a link to a review of a service mentioned in a previous dupe. Note the subtle difference.
And secondly, you have no grounds for complaint. The Slashdot Random Story Submission Selection System (SRSSSS), is completely unbiased. Not even quality submissions are granted preference!
Re:Duped Trash Instead of News (Score:1)
First, as several other responders have pointed out, a review of something that has previously been posted does not constitute a dupe. Neither does the news that the public beta is expanding. These are separate news items. If you flip out everytime some new Google Beta or marginally-better iPod is announced with a [dupe] and [dupe] and [dupe] and [this too] post, you kind of miss the point: Slashdot is an ongoing conversation, so when something new happens, i
Re:Duped Trash Instead of News (Score:2)
If the editors could piss off and let users choose stories (like Digg or Kuro5hin), then Slashdot would be a lot less sucky in my opinion.
Re:Duped Trash Instead of News (Score:2)
Re:Duped Trash Instead of News (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, instead Digg has duped Apple ads from 1987.
Theory:Slashdot's never been better thanks to Digg (Score:2, Insightful)
Today it's Digg which attracts these people, and Slashdot has improved immensely as a result. While it ain't perfect - too many dupes, and too many funny contributions get marked "-1 Troll" - I can't ever remember Slashdot being as good as it is now.
The default mode of di
Riiiight.. (Score:3, Insightful)
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Just what the world needs (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Just what the world needs (Score:2)
I'm sad to say, you were right [google.com] all along.
Not for my mom (Score:2, Funny)
In fact, now I come to think about it, she would have to a) Use a computer and b) Use the internet, first!
...not gonna happen
Not for me? (Score:5, Funny)
But what if I am my mom?!?
Re:Not for me? (Score:3, Funny)
But what if I am my mom?!?
In that case I would say that you have some major issues, and needn't really worry about Google...Re:Not for me? (Score:1)
Then you will be convicted for breaking the Time Travel Act, paragraph 4:
"Time travellers who, either willfully or due to carelessness, cause a causal situation, where one or more certain events, including but not limited to the coming into existance of a certain object or life form, including but not limited to human being, including but not limited to the time traveller himself, causally follows from the event itself, either in isolation or in conjunction with other events and/or
Re:Not for me? (Score:1)
Sendmail (Score:2, Funny)
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Not my mom. (Score:4, Funny)
so yea, it is for your mom (Score:5, Informative)
What is the difference to other web hosters? Google Pages lets you create your site online, but it has neither MySQL, PHP, nor FTP support. You see its NO replacement for a common web hosting service, but it is almost PERFECT for users who want to publish their last holiday photos or theirselves. They need no knowledge about web hosting and HTML developing. Of course FTP is important for professional webmasters, but private users dont need FTP or MySQL. They need an good but easy web hosting solution.
Re:so yea, it is for your mom (Score:3, Interesting)
That's really an annoying stance to take though since a lot of 'private users' quickly outgrown the 'easy web hosting solution' and have to switch to full fledged hosting somewhere else. I better system would be to allow their hosting to group with their users.
Re:so yea, it is for your mom (Score:2)
Oh my, yes. (Score:4, Insightful)
The gist of it is that "Google Pages Is Not For You." It's for your mom ;)
So you not only have summarized TFA FOR me - so I don't have to RTFA - AND you're saying it's nothing for anyone but a sporadic user... Why are you wasting space on slasdot?
Re:Oh my, yes. (Score:1)
Re:Oh my, yes. (Score:2)
So that you know it, now. The real question is, why are you wasting space commenting on a posting you just said is worthless?
Well... (Score:2, Informative)
I'm so glad... (Score:5, Insightful)
Gadzooks.
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Re:I'm so glad... (Score:2)
Irony is an anonymous coward telling me to kill myself for publically stating an opinion.
The mixture of these mechanisms by amateurs is not recommended.
Internet landfill (Score:1)
For your mom... (Score:5, Funny)
Hey - that's my motto too.
'How do I turn my Google page on?' - Mom (Score:3, Funny)
So it has a personal tech support agent and hand to hold built right into it?
Re:'How do I turn my Google page on?' - Mom (Score:1)
less than yahoo (Score:1)
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In Bed (Score:2, Funny)
Google Pages isn't for your, its for your Mom.... IN BED
Seriously though, did anyone thing that Google Pages would be met by anything but annoyance and derision by the uber-geeks of the slashdot crowd?
Its like discussing Garanimals (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=garanimals [google.com]) in a fashion forum. I wish they had those for adults... sigh...
Use it as an image store (Score:2, Insightful)
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Re:Use it as an image store (Podcast Store) (Score:1)
Not true (Score:4, Insightful)
What I need, and Geocities doesn't provide, is a fast ad-free ajaxy interface and "one login", i.e. gmail/gtalk/whatever login.
"One login to rule them all..."
Google pages *is* for me! (Score:3, Interesting)
I decided that I wanted to simplify the website, put everything on one page, pretty it up with a sty
If you've got it use it (Score:1)
Good for Web Designers too! (Score:4, Interesting)
It produces perfect cross-browser compatible seperation of CSS/HTML; no tables for one thing, and there's a whole bunch of template layouts to get started with (2 column. The rest just involves saving the source, tweaking the CSS to your own look & feel and adding content! Granted, the layouts are never exactly what you're looking for, but still, it's a good starting point.
Well done Google!
Is anyone reminded of this? (Score:1)
Article summary missing last line (Score:1)
For someone with a Wife and Child (Score:1)
Is it just me? (Score:1)
500 - Google Page Creator Oops! Google Page Creator is having a little trouble right now.
This is not because of anything you did; it's just a little hiccup in our system that will hopefully go away soon. We apologize for the inconvenience, and recommend you try reloading this page.
Why is Google doing this redundant service?! For $ (Score:1)
Re:Why is Google doing this redundant service?! Fo (Score:2)
Maybe there will be ads at some point, and maybe I'm just feeding a troll, but currently there are no Google ads on any *.googlepages.com web sites that I have seen so far.
For my mom? For me too then (Score:4, Insightful)
Secret Strategy (Score:5, Funny)
1) Make it easy to create a useless crap webpage.
2) All crap webpage designers flock to Google Pages.
3) Google just blocks Google Pages domain from search results.
4) ??????????
5) Profit!
you guys are missing the point (Score:5, Insightful)
This isn't just for people who don't can't learn HTML. This is for anyone who wants to get a decent site on the itnernet but simply has better thaings to do than to learn to make attractive web pages from scratch. Face it - the GooglePages look pretty sweet (especially compared to Geocities, etc.)
There are a lot of people out there who would benefit from being able to create and maintain their own webpages who simply don't have the time to learn more tech stuff. I tried it out and was immediately convinced it would work perfectly for my dad (an English professor - http://terryl.givens.googlepages.com/ [googlepages.com] ). He doesn't need SQL, PHP, etc. No messageboards, no forums, no online-shopping, no registering. Just text, images, and some pdf/doc docs.
My dad's a smart man. He could learn all about web hosting, html, etc. if he wanted to. But he's got a PhD in Comparative Literature and he's a litle busy with doing his actual job to start learning how to do tech stuff. There are lot of professionals and other busy people out there like him. They would benefit from a very simple web site. Not just simple to design, but simple to order (try explaining domain names vs. web hosting to most non-techies) and maintain. Not to mention free.
GooglePages is not rocket science - but in my opinion it goes a long way towards hitting the sweet spot where convenience and function are optimized for people who want to be able to make web pages with no serious training.
I also think it's not a bad idea for techies either, if you're too busy with other stuff. I'm working full time, I do consulting part time, I have my own small company on top of that, and I'm about to start a masters program. I don't have time to mess with a web site, but it's important to keep a presence on the web (resume stuff). GooglePages is perfect for that.
-stormin
My Mom porgrams in Assembly... (Score:2)
guy: peices?
me: peices?! No, pounds baby! POUNDS!
mom: I'll bring my tools. I start tomorrow.
Much nicer than most others' offerings (Score:2)
In other places, I have seen arguments that GooglePages is nothing more than a "Googlefied" version of GeoCities or AngelFire. While there is some truth to this, let's not forget two things:
1. GooglePages (currently) doesn't have any ads. Unlike GC or AF, there are no annoying "ad gadgets" that can really detract from the site content. GC and AF convey the notion of "Hi, you've reached my uber-free site that sports lots of ads
My timing sucks... (Score:1)
Just a couple days before I planned to release the first alpha of my new toy [psychograph.org] (shameless plug), I get an invite from Google to join their Pages beta test. So I checked it out and immediately thought little of it.
Sure, it's a nice system, but I was actually hoping they'd have done something more along the lines of what psychograph [psychograph.org] does (or, will do when it's past alpha release). Pages seems rather limited when it comes to design elements, taking a rather cookie cutter approach to layout and templates. The o
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Not only that... (Score:2)
Black text on dark, dark blue that's probably supposed to look white, plus a pile of links all stuffed into what appears to be a "Best viewed by Internet Explorer [insert version] at [insert resolution]" page. In case it's not obvious, I detest pages that don't scale properly to the 1600x1200 I run my browser at, especially if they are unreadable on my browser.
I expect this crap on a 13-year-old's Fr
Re:Not only that... (Score:2)
We have server problems (Score:2, Informative)
i am editor at TamsPalm.
We currently have server problems. Probably someone hacked into our server and linked to the FBI site.
We'll try to fix this as soon as possible.
Alexander Gratz
Link broken at host? (Score:2)
Now I am on their list - Not enough FOIL!!! (Score:2)
Don't make waves... just an average peon citizen who votes Republican.
Oh my... where is my FOIL!!! Never enough FOIL!!!
*charlton heston like* Damn slashdot... DAMN THEM! *end charlton heston like*
WARNING - Link Redirect (Score:1, Informative)
Re:WARNING - Link Redirect (Score:1, Funny)
Re:WARNING - Link Redirect (Score:2, Informative)
What did I do wrong? (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.fbi.gov/?2006/03/29/google-page-creato
BTW, there's no review there.
Re:What did I do wrong? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What did I do wrong? (Score:3, Informative)
Tam Hanna once again. We were DOSSed, and my web host decided to forward the a$$face to FBI...
Best regards
Tam Hanna
Definitely not for me, huh? (Score:2)
(Since when to slashdotted pages start pointing to the FBI??)
How does it compare to MS Office Live? (Score:2)
Re:How does it compare to MS Office Live? (Score:2)
Embedded CSS? (Score:2)
Re:My mom has dimentia.... (Score:5, Funny)
Is that the ability to travel to other dimensions?
Re:allready /.ed (Score:5, Interesting)
Mirrordot [mirrordot.com]
As for the "Suitable for Mum, not slashdotters" comment, its 100MB of webspace for free
That makes it suitable for me - even just to use to transfer large files around (when I'm behind a firewall that only lets port 80 through)
Re: Transferring large files around (Score:1)
I'd stick to your gmail account for that.
Re:But What About.... (Score:2)
Re:FBI page? (Score:1)