New Google online apps and APIs
Did you notice the new applications available for you through on your google page?
Well, if you haven't, they are giving you google calendar and google spreadsheet along with your gmail. I checked these applications out, and they are pretty cool and powerful. You can even configure alerts on your google calender, that will send messages to your mail or mobile(only verizon). The spreadsheet app is yet another powerful application from google, but I guess some experience with a spreadsheet app is required before really using it.
Now, coming to tech related stuff.
First is gwt - that is google web toolkit. This toolkit is a Java API to write AJAX applications. That means, you do not have to worry about writing bunch of javascript to get cool web widgets to working - such as tables, list boxes, navigation trees etc. Go checkout
Second is the the project hosting space - called google code. This is something in the lines of sourceforge. If you want to host an open source project, say with in 15 minutes, this is the choice. You get a project homepage, issue tracker(bugzilla) and sub version based version control. I guess they are targetting small individual projects unlike huge projects hosted in sourceforge. Go create your project and check in some impressive code, who knows, may be google would hire you.
Good luck!
