Google Calendar has arrived and as usual is being written about all over the Web. Take the tour here.

One of its main features is Gmail integration: Gmail will recognize when messages include information about specific events. When you receive such emails, you can add them to Google Calendar with a click or two from the right of the Gmail page.

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has given it a favorable first impressions review:

“My overall impression: Excellent. The ability to share via web publishing or RSS shows Google’s commitment to an open stardard. And this application is impressive in its speed and stability.”

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.

Garett Rogers, who last week broke the story about Gmail for Domains based on a line of code spotted in the source, has discovered a new feature: voicemail.

It seems the G-guys are adding features all the time, at least in seed form. Maybe they’re just drumming up a bit of much-needed feelgood to bolster the southward tendency of the share price.

Whatever, here’s how Rogers describes his find:

A voicemail service will allow people to use Gmail as an answering machine that won’t run out of space or need rewinding — who knows, maybe it will be searchable using speech to text technology. This service will be most useful when Google starts providing full VoIP services, but until then it could be used for missed GTalk calls. Recorded messages will be available for listening through Gmail — possibly with a flash applet designed to play them like Google Reader’s podcast feature.

Life gets complicated, don’t it?

San José City College is said to be testing a new Gmail feature that allows the hosting of Gmail accounts with a third party domain address.

The service will provide companies and individuals with tools for efficient account management, massive storage, powerful mail search, messaging, and a fast interface.

The trial involves 10,000 students from the college. Others who want to participate can apply for the closed beta.

[Source: Geekzone]