GoDropBox is a nifty third-party add-on for Google Apps that adds a public mailbox to your Google Docs account, enabling anyone with the appropriate link to upload files to your account. Uploaded files appear immediately in your Google Docs account. The upload page is fairly basic, as shown in the screenshot above. MORE >>

If you don’t like having to switch to the Google Docs website to monitor your account to see whether any new documents have been shared with you, check out Google Docs Notifier , a simple free Widows utility that sits in the taskbar, displaying a count of unviewed Docs. Collaboration Google Docs Windows MORE >>

The acquisition fits in with VMware’s acquisition of the Zimbra messaging platform in January 2010 and pits VMwareagainst Microsoft, Cisco, Google and other folks in the collaboration space. CNN Collaboration Google Docs Microsoft presentation sliderocket VMWare Zimbra MORE >>

The proliferation of cloud storage providers has led to many of us storing our documents using a variety of different providers: Google Docs, Zoho, Dropbox, SugarSync, Pogoplug. Collaboration Google Docs Primadesk remote work SugarSync zohoBox.net, etc. That makes managing those documents tricky. MORE >>

If you’re a regular user of Google Docs, note that you can now take advantage of drawing tools accessible from directly within your documents, presentations and spreadsheets. With both Pencil and Dia, you can do sophisticated drawings that you can drop into Google Docs documents. Written by Samuel Dean. MORE >>