When we find tools that work well for us at Google, we like to share them with our customers. That's what we're doing today as we launch Labs for Google Apps, a place for us to deliver cool new experimental features to our Google Apps enterprise users. The applications we're launching today into Labs for Google Apps are:

• Google Moderator: Take Q&A to a whole new level -- manage feedback from the smallest video conference to the largest all-hands company meeting.


• Google Code Review: Collaborate with others to catch bugs in software changes before you check them in.


• Google Short Links: Create easy-to-remember links for both your internal and external web pages.

Here's a peek under the hood of these new Labs tools.

Since Google App Engine launched in April, Googlers have been using it to build and port a number of useful applications--some of which are the apps we're launching today into Google Labs.

The challenge in building these features was to design a system to centrally deploy a single application to ma