By Chris Kanaracus and Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service

Google is going to make sure users of its Apps productivity and collaboration software can tap all of the company's services, according to Dave Girouard, president of the company's enterprise group, in a colorful tweet on Twitter.

"We're working to give you access to every damn Google service with a Google Apps account -- yep every damn one of them. Um, maybe not Lively," he wrote in a Twitter post on Tuesday, referring at the end to Lively, the 3-D virtual world service Google shuttered recently.

In an e-mailed statement, Girouard said he has been "exploring Twitter as a different way to engage with our users and partners," but did not directly address the Tuesday post.

Asked if Girouard's tweet should be taken seriously, a Google spokesman said via e-mail that he "would not call it a joke."

Google has a range of services that could be natural extensions for current customers of its enterprise Apps service, particularly social-networking tools such as Blogger and Orkut. In addition, Google's FeedBurner application could be adopted for enterprise RSS (real simple syndication), and its Groups forum-building platform would also seem to make sense.

But Girouard's decision to tweet about Google's plans is probably not the right method of reaching the average corporate IT buyer, according to one observer.


Spotted here