Top Reasons Why We Love Google

This post is adapted from a blog co written by McKenzie Lawton and Melanie Wong. You can read their blog in its entirety here.

1. Synchronize, synchronize, synchronize

By using Google apps such as Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google reader we are able to share and access our calendars, important info and blogs from anywhere, anytime.

2. Fast and Free

To "Google", the latest synonym for search, allowing you to get all the information that you need in milliseconds. The best part? Its free. And did you know Google is attempting to make the internet even faster?

3. Personalization

Everything from Google Chrome to your iGoogle page allows you customize it to your aesthetic preferences and usage patterns

4. Innovation

Google lets us contribute to their latest innovations such as the Google Wave and other web protocol. Listening to their users makes us happy and helps them succeed.

5. There's an app for that

Check out some of Google's applications to help enhance YOUR Google experience.

What do you use Google to help you with in your daily life?

Twitter Bigger Than Barack?

According to the Global Language Monitor, it is. Their recently conducted poll for the most used words of 2009 put Twitter as the number one word of the year, followed by Barack Obama and H1N1. What I find striking is the contrast between the big and the little. When people say the president's name, they generally say it in reference to large scale issues: healthcare, national security, taxes - things that affect us not only now, but for years to come. Swine flu is an international epidemic. Yet Twitter is used for the super short term: the latest breaking news, a sale or special that will only last 2 hours, a joke that is momentarily amusing. Have we experienced a paradigm shift, where the little has captured our attention more than the big, or are we simply tweeting away to distract ourselves from the larger woes of the world? What do you think accounts for the mega success of Twitter? Is it a passing trend or here to stay?