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How would you like to offer your business or website users powerful Google web tools and brand them with your own logo and domain name? It seems like that would take some kind of business partnership with Google and cost tons of money. Actually it’s free for small businesses and still downright cheap for large companies! It’s called Google Apps and they even provide the hosting.

That’s right, with an Internet connection and a computer your users can create, share and collaborate on spreadsheet and word processing documents. The programs compete with the functionality of Microsoft Excel and Ms Word. They can even coordinate meetings and events with group calendars that are like MS Outlook. You can’t find the ability to co-brand web-based software like this for free anywhere (that I have yet to find). Check out ‘Danogo.com Docs’ as an example. Through ‘Google Talk’ you can even provide people on your website with web chat and voice calling anywhere in the world… all through your domain.

You can even offer users free email accounts that they can use the Gmail interface with. Its like opening up your own hotmail! If you don’t already know, free applications like Yahoo mail generate pure viral traffic just by the fact that the domain name in the email is constant advertising. Who needs search engine ads like adwords with that kind of automatic Internet marketing! If you want me to sign you up to check out ‘Danogo.com Dmail’, leave me a reply (include private current email in form) and I’ll add you as a user so you can check it out.

Members get a free internet start page that will link to the email inbox, calendar, docs and they can add or remove any widget. Start page widgets have all the features Google has to offer like maps, cnn news, weather, youtube videos and more. Check out the your own personal Start at Danogo.com’ that your can sign into and customize with goggle widgets that are made by iGoogle developers from all around the world. The only down side is users can’t register, you have to add them as a user. However, there is a Partner Edition of Google Apps that would presumably allow users to register on their own, but you need to contact Google for pricing.

Obviously Googie has become much more than a search engine! The amount of programming that has gone into this part of the site is amazing. There are occasional errors but for the most part everything runs very smoothly. Its surprisingly good software for a beta version. Just remember, Google makes money online through advertising so they want to win over users as their audience. That’s why the company is providing webmasters the ability to share feature rich applications like this. There is a very easy to use control panel for putting all this together with configurations for web design as well.

This discussion can continue at the Danogo forum.

Like I said, if you want me to sign you up for ‘Danogo.com Apps powered by Google’, leave me a reply (include private current email in form) and I’ll add you as a user so you can check it out.