Google Workspace – Adding Picasa Web Album Service

This used to be available, but has been discontinued:

Note: The previous Start Page service was a syndicated version of iGoogle; it allows you to set up a dynamic homepage (one start page layout per domain) for your users that brings together your content, Google services, and the best of the web. Starting on 3 December 2008, the Start Page is no longer included for new organizations that sign up for Google Apps.

(From: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46798)

However, you can now make your own via Google Sites:

As a Google Apps administrator, you can create a Start Page for your users, using the Google Sites Start Page template. This page is your users' homepage, on which they can access their Google services and other content -- such as interactive gadgets and RSS feeds -- when they log in to their Google Apps accounts.their Google Apps accounts.

(From the tutorial: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=179916

Google are beginning to transition Google Apps accounts to full accounts. My domain just went through this transition and now I have access to most Google services using my Google Apps account. Previously I used to have an alex@mydomain.com Google Apps account and a google@mydomain.com Google account - it got rather annoying after a while!

I outlined in this post which services transition across and how. The main ones I don't seem to have access to are:

• Google Buzz - I get a 404 Page Not Found when going to http://buzz.google.com when logged in
• Google Profile - I think this is linked to the above.

(Google have a bit about these two here)

I also seem unable to share items in Google Reader - which Google know about it seems.

There's a bit more info from Google here and here, but I'm not sure if you can initiate the transition before they issue you with an invitation...