Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has obtained a number of screenshots of CL2, Google’s long-awaited AJAX calendar feature, including the image shown above.

Michael writes: “I’ve gotten possession of screenshots from Google’s long delayed new Ajax calendar application, which will be called “CL2″. It was only a matter of time before someone broke down and leaked these — as far as I know these screen shots are the first on the public web. ”

Is it my imagination or is Google posting a lot of stuff it wants to keep quiet now? What with the Powerpoint notes from Analysts’ Day, to speculation about forthcoming earnings which sent the share price tumbling today, it seems confusion reigns over at the Googleplex.

Time to get a grip, Gguys. Maybe the new calendar will assist your forward planning.

Google is becoming “Gevil”, says Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch.

Summing up what we know about G-Drive (see post below), he concludes:

“At this point, all we know is that Google is already developing Google Drive, an online storage service that will be designed to store all of our data and make it accessible from various devices. No word on pricing. As to timing, Google is concerned with storage and bandwidth constraints that exist today, and so this may still be far into the future.”

Read the rest of the post.

Greg Linden has blogged about Google’s Analyst Day. In particular he concentrates on an analysis of some of the slides in a Powerpoint presentation. Here are a few snippets:

Slide 31 says that Google’s philosophy to new product development is “no constraints” and that they initially ignore “CPU power, storage, bandwidth, and monetization.”

Slide 20 says (in the notes) that Google plans to “get all the worlds information, not just some.”

And slide 19 (in the notes) talks about how their work is inspired by the idea of “a world with infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power.” … “the online copy of your data will become your Golden Copy and your local-machine copy serves more like a cache”.

They say in the notes on slide 12 that they will “introduce new personalization elements” and that they view that as one of two major directions for their efforts to improve relevance rank.

It seems that the notes were removed from the PDF, but that Greg downloaded the original content.

ZDNet follows this up with the comment: “The GDrive service will provide anyone (who trusts Google with their data) a universally accessible network share that spans across computers, operating systems and even devices. Users will no longer require third party applications to emulate this behaviour by abusing Gmail storage.”

Google’s plans have been described as “wild evolution” compared to Yahoo’s systematic approach. Seems like the Googlers have got a pretty good idea where they want to go and are using a scattergun scenario to get there.

According to Valleywag, Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, is worth $888.3 million less than he was worth yesterday. While business partner, Larry Page’s fortune dropped by $910.5 million.

The chart above shows the cliff the company fell off on February 28. And, although they made up around 40 percent of the drop, it’s still a mixed picture with a downward trend.

True to form the spiky Wag reports of “Google schadenfreude”. But are these events really as delicious as some make out? After all, if Google can fail, so can anyone else in this business, and that could mean all.

In 2000 many dotcoms lost high-90s percent of their stock value. It’s not in anyone’s interest for a major to crash.

Google could be the canary down the mine.