I’m not a homer, but I find everything that Google does pretty much awesome. Their new projects and new services keep me on the edge of what the tech elite use and get me all gitty when I get “invited” to use them.  In my web browser I like to pull down the different services that I use and create a quick bookmark by using the image link of each website. In my Bing  section Google section of my quicklinks I have six main services of Google that I use religiously. Let me recap my love the different services.

#1 Google Reader- This is service that I use to take the RSS feeds from all of my friends blogs and websites that support RSS syndication. I don’t go to my friends websites anymore, and that’s not because I don’t like to, it’s because I get the text and photos that you post in your blog in my Google Reader.

#2 Gmail – Ah, that lovable Email service that I switched from in 2004, perhaps my longest commitment in this Google marriage. I have 3 E-mails that I use pretty regularly. One email is my primary email that everyone knows. The second gmail email is my geocaching name at gmail that I use for emailing other geocachers and getting geocaching updates. The third gmail is my original gmail account that I got back when Gmail was first made available to the public via “invite only.” Fun Fact #1 Did you know that Gmail stayed in Beta for nearly 5 years?

#3 Google Docs – Ever been some place and didn’t have a thumb drive or the ability to save something that you needed to write down really really quick? Google Docs is basically a web version of the Microsoft Office suite. It makes it easy for collaboration because I can allow people to edit my document and not have 30 different versions of a document floating between emails.  While I don’t use it that often, it’s great to have in the wing.

#4 Google Voice – This product is awesome! Google Voice is a phone number that you get that you can attach to another phone. The thing that makes this service so awesome is that I can start up a business and use my google voice number as my business number. When a customer calls me Google Voice will call my personal cell and will connect us, the whole time the customer not knowing my personal number. However the best part to me is say that I’m in a meeting and the customer calls my cell phone, I can set up my voicemail to have the customer leave a message. That message is then translated into text and sent to my cell  phone via email or text message, to which I have the option to respond via text as well. Now how I can use this service in our personal life, I ‘m still researching that. However, I did love it so much I paid $3.19 on Ebay for it only because Google is allowing you to have limited invites. I’m part of the cool club.

#5 Google Wave – Google Wave is the new service that Google is trying to push out. They have limited invites right now, but it was great to get to be a part of the “preview.” I did shamelessly try to buy an invite on Ebay. The best description of Google Wave that I have heard is from my friend Chris Beiting when we were talking on a “wave” the other day. He stated “it’s like gmail/wiki/im had a baby and this is it… it’s still wearing diapers.”

#6 Google Calendar- If you have a mac and use iCal, this is the same thing. However I do like having a “DayPlanner” on the net. It’s pretty cool because I have it synced to my ipod touch so that anytime I’m near a internet signal my google calendar will update the Ipod touch calendar. I love this.

That’s just 6 of the near 200 different Google products and services that this little small company  in Mountain View, California.