Something we have been working on here at Folknology is how to improve small business's integration with the web. We will shortly be presenting a new version of this blog and web site that helps explain our take and services in this area. As you will also be aware (If you have checked in here before) we are also involved in building a new small business tool 'Live Tally' which will be released as a separate entity in the next few months.

In this regard our radar picked up the Intuit/Google announcements, unfortunately the biggest buz around this seems to center on the TechCrunch coverage. Unfortunately the TC coverage focuses in on the bundling of Google Desktop and the paranoia surrounding that. Fortunately some bloggers (like Dennis and Rex) do get the significance of this move investigate it for what it could be. I think it's a good move by Intuit and some thing we have been working on for a while. Intuit also have an advantage having snapped up setup recently to help the product/service integration. I am left wondering if any other services have stepped up to the mark to do anything similar to 'Setup' but in a more general and open API fashion, if you hear anything let me know (by email for now, al at folknology).

Update
What is not clear in the announcement or anywhere else I can find is what they mean by inventory integration. I understand that to mean more than just listing products but also dealing with stock and availability etc.. The information I have seen seems to indicate only 'product listings' although they seem to be construing this as an inventory function, I think Dennis is also querying this ambiguity.