The 'cloud' gets heavier

Computerworld has an article by Heather Havenstein about the latest from Google:

Google Inc. this week unveiled gadgets created by its Google Labs project that allow Gmail users to look at Google Calendar and Google Docs data without having to open the hosted applications. For example, Gmail users can use one of the gadgets to see their Calendar agenda and get alerted when a meeting is scheduled, Google said. Another gadget could show users a list of recently accessed Google Docs and let them search across all documents from within Gmail. Google Labs, which solicits user feedback as it develops products, also created the ability to add any gadget to Gmail by pasting in the URL of its XML file.
The new products are the latest in a series of offerings to come out of Google Labs in recent months. Earlier this month, Google Labs rolled out Mail Goggles aimed at preventing Gmail users from sending email that they might later regret. Last month, Google Labs rolled out a test version of an audio search indexing system that's designed to find specific words in videos and let users jump to the portion of the video where the words are used. And, in August, the company unveiled Google Labs-developed Google Suggest, which suggests search queries as users type words or letters.