• Nicole Simon has some philosophical thoughts to share in her review.
• Trumba blogs about the relationship between their calendars and Google's via new Trumba features that will be rolled out tomorrow.
• Looks like "who can top it" is the wrong question to ask.  See Charlene Li's great long review and comments following.  It's all about the platform.
• The Unofficial Apple Weblog (a Winc member) has a tutorial on synching your GCal with your Mac's iCal.  It's only one way, though - things you add to your GCal will be autoimported to your iCal but not the other way around.  That's probably an ok thing.

• http://www.nibbleguru.com/
• http://www.alleba.com  (Ouch, the company blog has 2 readers via Feedburner.  Seems like a totally legit search engine for info related to the Phillipines though.)
• http://www.freeware-alternative.uni.cc/

During the beta period, Writely is free.

Yet, check this out:

Will you start showing Google ads in my documents?

And if you were wondering like I was, it looks like Writely has added Mac support.  They still aren't taking new users yet, but there's a waiting list.

Companies operating search engines say they store information on users' search behaviors to improve search performance. Critics say that it threatens users' privacy if the information is stolen or shared without their permission.   Do you support or oppose companies permanently storing search behaviors of their users?   (PROBE: SUPPORT/OPPOSE STRONGLY/SOMEWHAT)

Strongly Support .......................................................................................... 13%

Somewhat Support ....................................................................................... 19%

Somewhat Oppose ....................................................................................... 27%

Strongly Oppose .......................................................................................... 33%

Haven't seen any confirmation or anything other than the standard "we can't comment" since the rumours of Google flirting with Riya started flying. Riya (nee Ojos) uses face recognition technology to help autotag your photo collection. I got a demo of Riya from the uber-fun Tara Hunt at Tagcamp and was pretty impressed - you train the software simply by tagging a few photos of someone, and it then automagically finds other photos of that person and autotags them. It's not perfect yet, but it did make an impressive number of correct matches, even identifying photos where the person's face was turned or in shadow, etc.

Of course I'm going to complain that it's Windows-only (and IE6 only, even, blech!)... which makes it a perfect candidate for the Goog, who loves to stick it to Mac users. ;) Riya plans Firefox and Mac support in the future, so I'm complaining now while the complaining is good. Anywho - you know how rumours are, and we may still not know anything even after Riya's launch party tonight at TechCrunch central.

Om has more on the rumours.

[Via Memeorandum]

So the Google Base service that was sniffed out last month is now live. Google Blogoscoped has a nice review of the app with screenshots. Haven't tried it myself yet and honestly, I'm not that excited about it. Enough of my Base already belongs to Google, really, and it's difficult to garner any enthusiasm for Yet Another Walled Data Garden. YMMV - let us know in the comments if you're make use of Google Base and what you like/dislike about the service.