Not unified messageing
When Google introduced it, I understood it to be a unified messaging application in which I could gather together all of my email contacts and IM contacts for Jabber, ICQ, MSN, etc. But it turns out to be just another messaging silo, disconnected from everything else. I can see how it may be useful for people collaborating on a project, but unless you manage to persuade everyone you know to make Google applications their preferred ones for everything, it doesn't seem so useful. On the positive side, kudos to Google for trying to rethink Internet messaging. New ideas that start off small can change the way everyone does things.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
