One Communication Tool to rule them all.

The more I play with Google+ the more convinced I become that it has the potential to become my Internet communication hub. Already with plus' integration of latitude I can get rid of foursquare (although I'll miss the badges, being mayor and getting free stuff from Hooters, the power of huddle makes up for it). I'm already seriously considering dumping Twitter. As soon as I get enough of my Facebook contacts over here my FB status updates will die down. Hangout & GoogleVoice means I don't need Skype anymore.If there was html support I wouldn't even need my personal blog anymore. So what's missing. Well I still need Evernotes, Google used to have a notebook tool but they discontinued it. If they brought it back and integrated it with plus that would be sweet. So far there isn't a Book club replacement for Goodreads, though with Google's relationship with Amazon (there are ongoing rumors that there will be a Amazon Android Tablet coming soon) perhaps it would make more sense to integrate with Shelfari. I've been very happy with the community created at Sparkpeople and while its not there yet I can see how Sparks has the potential to replace that for me someday. I still need a GTD tool like Nozbe A mind mapper tool like MindMeister. A personal financial tool like MoneyStrand and a time tracker like RescueTime. Now I'm not trying to suggest that Google should try to replace all these fine tools. but I would *love* it if the google API allowed all these tools to integrate so I can work with everything from my google+ workspace.

Google+ Addiction in full tilt.

So I've basically come to the conclusion that Google is going to be my tech hub. I don't plan on becoming like the Mac fan boys. But lets face it I already own an Android phone (and love it). I'm going to get the Amazon Android Tablet whenever they start shipping it and I'm already looking at a Chromebook. I'm a die hard Firefox user for development but I'm noticing more and more of my social browsing is happening in Chrome. And now we have google+. One of the first things I noticed in using G+ was that *almost* everything I do on the web could be accomplished in a google tool now. But G+ doesn't support HTML and I"m a web developer so just having a GUI blogging tool won't work for me. But then I remembered that Blogger is a Google Application and that Google will soon be rebranding it to fit more into the google+ image. So here I am to try out just how ready Blogger is for a someone like me. And to figure out how hard (or easy) it is to integrate with G+.