If you stop by this blog often, you will know that generally, I don’t write a commentary about what other bloggers are doing. I usually just try to describe what Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 issues I am dealing with, and what ideas and insights fall out from there. A little while ago, I promised the folks at Dealmaker Media that I would participate in their Radar Relay. The Radar Relay is a series of articles designed to sum up what is going on in the world of Office 2.0 in the last week, and stimulate discussion leading up to the Under the Radar: Why Office 2.0 Matters conference.

I participated once already. See all the gratuitus links in How many ways can your service reach people?

But… that didn’t get me off the hook. Not even close. Apparently, a long winded article on the recombinatorl web just didn’t cut it. I was shown Richard MacManus’ post Best of Web Office This Week. Read/Write Web is one of my favorite sites out there, and Richard, of course, offered a great summary of the recent Office 2.0.

OK… they have me in a tough place here. Not is the Dealmaker team one of the best connected crews in the value, but Teqlo is going to be presenting at the conference. We do, btw, have some very cool new stuff to demo. It should be fun:

So… in an effort to get it right, here is the best of the Web Office news for the last few days:

• In a quick poll run on Read/Write web, most people didn’t think Google Apps Priemier represents a tipping point, but they thought one was coming soon.
• In this case, the crowd is wrong. Google Apps Priemier is a tipping point. But it isn’t because Google’s Docs and Spreadsheets rock. They don’t. At least, not yet. Google Spreadsheets are a great begining, but they will need to scale up in size, and add a range of functions before they can be used for serious business mash-ups, such as finding the best prices from a dump of competitive prices. I say that Google Apps Priemier represents a tipping point because of this pointed article by my fellow Enterprise Irregular, Jason Busch. Jason says simply: Vista, Office and Outlook 2007 are a Nightmare. Google Apps Priemer is a tipping point because it attaches a Service Level Agreement to Google at Your Domain version of Gmail. Will “real” companies use SaaS for mission critical stuff like email?…
• According to Larry Dignan, the SalesForce has just landed a 25,000 seat deal with Merrill Lynch. Anshu Sharma points out that there are probably some discounts to this deal. “Now, if Merrill Lynch actually were to pay this price [$500/seat/year], they would be down $150 Million a year. That would be more than 25% of Salesforce.com’s annual revenue.”
• On O’Reilly Radar, Brady Forrest writes about Google has released their usage stats for Google Gadgets. There are over 4,000 Google Gadgets. Many are viewed over a million times a day.

The recent news shows two simple trends.

1. Business software delivered over the web is starting to look more mainstream.
2. Widgets / Gadgets are getting big…. very big!