This blog is about the steady march of Google in providing amazing services for no/LOW cost when it comes to providing a platform to connect with people far and near.
You might ask how am I qualified to make this pronouncement? Well, your truly has now officially lived in three countries and left quite a long trail of friends and acquaintances along the journey who want to stay "in" on what's happening with my life, living and loving.
Lets start with the parents, living in a part of the world where the best connection they can access is a DSL based internet connection with its own challenges around flakiness and the availability of electricity to drive the computing infrastructure that connects to this information gateway. Enter Google Chrome and all the goodies it brings within itself.
You might ask how am I qualified to make this pronouncement? Well, your truly has now officially lived in three countries and left quite a long trail of friends and acquaintances along the journey who want to stay "in" on what's happening with my life, living and loving.
Lets start with the parents, living in a part of the world where the best connection they can access is a DSL based internet connection with its own challenges around flakiness and the availability of electricity to drive the computing infrastructure that connects to this information gateway. Enter Google Chrome and all the goodies it brings within itself.
- Gmail allows for easy email communication
- Talk allows for CHEAP phone calls
- Plus allows for convenient and ABSOLUTELY PRIVATE one-on-one information sharing, be it pictures, videos et al
- Hangout is leveraged for video get togethers with them and extended family members on the platform
- Drive allows for storage of information that can then be again shared on an as-needed basis with appropriate visibility via one of the portals like Gmail / Plus
- YouTube is up and running with myriad family videos that can then also be shared with appropriate discretion 1:1 via the extended leverage of the infrastructure.
How much time did it take the non-IT friendly parents to get up and running with said infrastructure?
The time it took to get Chrome installed and logged into the parents Google account. A few clicks here and there, remembrance of some click sequences and viola, I have hyper connected parents in on any and every aspect of my life from 12.5 timezones away, perusing and consuming content as they deem fit.
This story is repeated across the different geographies with different groups of friends and acquaintances far and near.
All said and done, THANK YOU Google. Keep up the insanely amazing work shrinking the world.
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