According to the Google Group Discussion Forum, Google Notebook Service will end January 19, 2009.  The Service will continue to be available to current users, but with no support or maintenance available.  It is suggested that you export all your notebooks to Google Docs or Another Program, Like Microsoft Office One Note.

Here’s the Post I read:

Google Labs – Notebook

Google Notebooks: DEAD

belzecue <gmcs…@gmail.com>
I’ve gotta say, this is starting to seriously shake my fanboyism of
Google.

I’ve been eyeballing evernote.com but always think to myself, Why
bother when I’ve been happily using and clipping to my Google
Notebooks?

And now Notebooks is dead.  I never saw that coming.  And it makes me
wonder: what other Google services am I blindly trusting will be there
tomorrow? All that data I entrusted to Google Notebook… now I have
to clutter my Google Docs with that stuff?  For me, Docs and Notebook
serve two separate purposes. One is a scrapbook; the other is a place
for serious work, where I reference the material I’ve clipped into my
Notebooks.

Anyway, very sad to see Notebooks go. And I hope it’s the last (for a
while) of the useful services that Google terminates.

—–
Stopping development on Google Notebook
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:30 PM
Posted by Raj Krishnan, Product Manager, Google Notebook

At Google, we’re constantly working to innovate and improve our
products so people can easily find and manage information. At times
though, we have to decide where to focus our efforts and which
technologies we expect will yield the most benefit to users in the
long run.

Starting next week, we plan to stop active development on Google
Notebook. This means we’ll no longer be adding features or offer
Notebook for new users. But don’t fret, we’ll continue to maintain
service for those of you who’ve already signed up. As part of this
plan, however, we will no longer support the Notebook Extension, but
as always users who have already signed up will continue to have
access to their data via the web interface at http://www.google.com/notebook.

If you haven’t used Notebook in the past, we invite you to explore the
other Google products that offer Notebook-like functionality. Here are
a few examples, all of which are being actively improved and should
meet your needs:

    * SearchWiki – We recently launched a feature on Search that will
let you re-rank, comment, and personalize your search results. This is
useful when you’ve found some results on Google Search that were
really perfect for your query. You can read about how to use
SearchWiki in this blog post.

    * Google Docs – If you’re trying to jot down some quick notes, or
create a document that you can share with others, check out Google
Docs.

    * Tasks in Gmail – For a lightweight way to generate a todo list
or keep track of things, we recently launched Tasks in Gmail Labs.

    * Google Bookmarks – For a tool that can help you remember web
pages that you liked and access them easily, take a look at Google
Bookmarks. You can even add labels to your bookmarks to better
organize and revisit them.

While it’s hard for us to make this announcement we believe it’s the
right decision for our users in the long run. And we’re excited about
all the new ideas we have for Docs, SearchWiki, Bookmarks and other
products.

I’ve been up all night working on my final Project for this class I am taking this summer called a “Bargain Blast” Website. I used a template with css from OpenSourceDesigns.org called Lotus

that is licensed under The Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. I altered the layout by switching the #sidebar div to float right, and the #content div left. I called my cyber-shop “Vibe Quest”: a place to request good thought, energies, and vibrations to be sent your way by a (imaginary in this case)network of people. The assignment was to set up a page as a cyber-shop and sell anything free or under $10.00 with three reasons listed as to why you need this service or product, a link back to the school’s catalog, a link to the class’s homepage, an image link, an image map, and an email link. It had to have two graphics at least. A fake address was also to be added. It had to have a background color or graphic as well.

As I said I altered the template by switching the float attributes on the content and the sidebar. I like my menus on the left, as it makes more sense to me being right handed mostly. Here’s a snapshot of the finished product which I’ll explain following the image:

The top image came with the template, as is licensed under Creative Commons (The Lotus). The two mandalas are actually botanical/Flower Mandalas. One was taken from “The Flower Mandalas Project”, which is website dedicated to photographing Mandalas in flowers. The pink and red is an Iris Germanica ii supposedly. It’s a small image map. The right side links to The Mandalas Project’s Website and the left links to a blog called Goodness Gracious which is really good reading on life and the human condition, as well as how to find peace and happiness.

The Top Purple One was was taken from Wikipedia and it links to The Article On Wikipedia. it ’s up on my website: Vibe Quest.

The title bars are images linked through the css. I had to use hard links, soft/relative never work for me. I put a bunch of links to related websites. Check it out!!