Whenever you have trouble accessing a Google application such a Docs or Mail, you will no longer have to wonder whether it's your internet connection or Google. Google have now launched the "App Status Dashboard" which is a list of most the Google applications and their status over a 6 day period. Any current outages are represented by a cross, and when resolved are replaced with blue "info" links.
Hopefully they'll also use this page to inform user's of maintenance ahead of any scheduled downtime.









