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Last week I received an announcement from Google that they are going to include Reader, Blogger and Picasa in the application suite for Google Apps. These are three of the most-requested apps that were not included in the Google Apps for Your Domain suite, even for enterprise accounts. I’m a major Google Reader user, so you could imagine how excited I was by this news. I was even more giddy when I received the e-mail telling me that I could have ask-mark.com participate in the early testing program.

I quickly signed up and converted a few of the user accounts to test things out. The transition site said that no data would be lost, and that I would have the option of allowing users to migrate the information from their personal accounts to the Google Apps accounts. After I chose a few accounts to convert, I looked for the option to allow or disallow content migration. I couldn’t find it. I also looked for the option to add more of the apps, like Reader and Blogger, to the list of apps available to my users. I couldn’t find that, either. This was already not going well. My anguishing tale continues after the jump.

Update: There are four updates to my tale at the end of the post. Google is starting to redeem itself.

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I’ve been blogging more in recent times. The increase in activity has brought me additional attention from comment spammers, I think. Most of my comment spam has been claiming to be from bloggers at Harvard Law School. I’m not even sure why that is. The e-mail addresses and URLs all appear to be legitimate, but the comments are all nonsense like I would expect from spam.

So, if you really are a blogger at Harvard, and you want to leave a comment here, shoot me a separate e-mail at mark [at] ask-mark [dot] com.