Google is eating its own dog food, vomiting

Google's Friend Connect announcement has been grabbing the most headlines, but did you notice how Google Docs played a part in the process?

Neither did I, until Google Docs spewed an error after I tried signing up for the preview release:



How is Google Docs involved? The Friend Connect team is using the newest Google Docs feature, forms, to collect the preview release signup data. The previous screen asked for your name, site, & various information from people interested in signing up for the preview service. Note the URL:



It appears Google is trying to eat its own dog food, but was let down this time. Most likely, the Friend Connect signups was the heaviest load their newest forms feature had to endure. In a rare failure, a Google process failed to scale.