The folks over at Lifehacker have made a pretty good case for creating your own personal domain (yourname.com) for you and your family, and why it’s wise to integrate that with Google Apps  in order to maintain control of your email and the web applications you use forever.

We have to agree, completely. It’s what we’ve been doing in our household for years.

It’s a lot faster & easier than you may think, with no ongoing costs, and minimal up-front out-of-pocket.

Check out their post, and then contact us to get yours up & running quickly & inexpensively. We can handle all of the details for you, and answer any questions you might have.

If you’re among the growing list of small & medium business using Google Apps as your business platform, big changes have been coming for some time now, in the form of Google Unified Accounts.

Simply, Google Apps accounts were comprised of a subset of Google services - Primarily Mail, Calendar, and Docs.

If your Google Apps (@YourDomain.com) users tried using other Goggle services, such as Google Reader, or YouTube, they had to create a second Google account (often, ubeknowst to them), usually with the same email address.

In time, it could become a mess.

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Thanks to the good folks at ReadWriteWeb for noticing that today marks the third anniversary of our favorite mobile platform, Android.

Three years ago, we seemed to live in a Blackberry & iPhone world, but today, Android has grown to become the most popular mobile phone platform in America, and the #2 worldwide (but look out, Nokia)!

We’ve helped a lot of clients integrate Android into their business operations, often times replacing iStuff & Blackberries, so we find it amusing to witness how far it’s come in such a short period of time.

Check-out the full article on ReadWriteWeb.

Update: The folks at Trillian released an update today.

When you run your own small or medium-sized business, it’s becoming increasingly crucial to leverage instant messaging, and on mobile phones, that’s been a rather cumbersome experience, with separate apps for each of the major IM platforms (Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk, etc.).

While some of those are pretty good (and others are not), there’s a (large) negative impact on your battery life to run them all simultaneously, and they all have very different user interfaces (ranging from the great, to the dismal).

On a computer, there are some fantastic multi-protocol applications, such as Digsby & Trillian, which allow you to be logged-into all of your IM accounts simultaneously, through a consistent user interface.

While the folks @ Digsby haven’t done much to move to the Android mobile world, Trillian recently released a public beta of their new Android app, and it’s pretty exciting!

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