Google Summit & Google tools
Many products designed and offered by Google are tools at the heart of my activities: partly as part of my job as a web developer and also with regard to entrepreneurship.
It is not lying to say I am definitively a Google fanboy and as such I couldn’t miss the Paris Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Summit.
Below you cans see a few pictures of the event.
So what are my favorite Google tools ?
It could be a long list but let’s make is not so long :
- Chrome : what else ?
- G Suite (with Superpowered GMail)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) : the DIY cloud !
- Android OS : the Essential
- Assistant is getting better & better
- YouTube for instant music (& Premium YouTube Music)
- Wear OS for my smart watch (Fit helps to keep fit)
- Google Travel is really useful (RIP Trips)
- Analytics tools
- …
I can share with you this Referral link for G Suite:
Google Labs
I tried Magenta – Really cool for creative and arty experiments. Basically it is Machine learning based on TensorFlow.
If you are interested you can follow these links :
Google for Nonprofits
I really think it is great Google does so much for non profit (some would say that’s the least they can do).
Learning with Google
The company does a lot to make all these products and tools user friendly and easy to handle ; however, it is useful to train for better understanding.
Everywhere Google provides full day trainings for the Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) and even delivers a certificate for all attendees ; I was lucky enough to participate and got my own reward !
I am learning everything about digital business with Learndigital Workshops
It offers numerous online courses to get new skills for the digital world / or to improve your skills.
More recently I discovered Qwiklabs.
A Qwiklabs laboratory is practical; it’s an online learning environment with a set of instructions to guide you through a live, scenario-based, live use case.
For sure there are alternatives to Google.
For example cloud services AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a great platform too. Many companies rely on AWS for all kinds of digital tools.
Actually I build projects with AWS myself.
There are Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and others…
Considering all these major companies and the centralized power they hold we speak very often about the GAFAM / BATX Threat.
More concerned people try to develop some alternatives ; in France there is Framasoft or Cozy and their Cloud for example.
It is a major issue of our time and all this may have negative consequences in the future, as regards individual freedoms…
We say in French “Toute médaille a son revers” : “Every rose has its thorn”.