Google has released a project to let organizations using Google Apps try experimental features.
An organization’s Google Apps account administrator can enable the collaborative applications so people in the group can use them. And for Gmail user, they can try Gmail Labs options.
The first three applications have been submitted by Google in its Solutions Marketplace site(Click here). And at some point plans to let outside programmers add their own. The Labs for Google Apps applications themselves are running on the Google App Engine, a general-purpose foundation for Web applications, Google said.
Google Moderator an application from the Lab lets people post questions publicly and vote on the ones they’d like answered. Google hosts a Google Moderator site(click here), but the Labs for Google Apps version is private to the group in question.
Another is a code review application that can be used to get comments on software as it’s developed. The third is Google Short Links, which lets people type in shortcut URLs that Google expands to longer ones. The service works for Web addresses that are part of the Internet domain Google helps to run through the Google Apps service.
Google Apps offers organizations a subscription program that includes support for several online tools: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk for chatting, Google Sites for private Web sites, and Google Docs for spreadsheets, word processing, and presentations.
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