I spent the requisite five minutes on Google Pages tonight now that I could actually log in. I created a very simple page, just to see what it felt like. I’ll poke around some more when I’m bored, but for now I still don’t get it. I do, however, really like the Google single sign-on which seems to have automagically appeared. My Google services are getting a little more tightly integrated which is a good thing. Hopefully the spam bots won’t figure out the algorithm for determining gmail addresses from the Google Page address (duh – very easy – nah – wishful thinking.)
I also spent the requisite five minutes setting up MyBook on Judy’s Book. This is my local blog for reviews. While I can use Judy’s Book WOPM (write once publish many) technology to post these to my Feld Thoughts blog , I’m going to play around with separate sites and only selectively post extensive reviews to both places (the short ones – things like restaurants – will stay on Brad Feld’s MyBook only.) Of course, when I do this, I’ll use Judy’s Book to write the review and then use the WOPM technology to automagically post to Feld Thoughts.