May
5
The fact that Google Reader now allows you to share any webpage in Google Reader through a bookmarklet (how many bookmarklets do you have installed already, btw?) and with the revolutionary feature of adding notes to that is, in too many ways, yet another example of Google reinventing wheels it already has (and just adding […]
Mar
31
Scoble has the scoop that Google Docs is now going to be available offline in a video over at fastcompany.tv (Update: and here is the official Google announcement, too).
As expected, it is running on top of Google Gears (meaning it’s available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, but doesn’t work with Safari) and looks and works […]
Mar
21
Here is an interesting piece of data via Jakob Nielson:
If you thought it’s easy to get to Google, think again. In our current round of usability research, only 76% of users who expressed a desire to run a Google search were successful. In other words, 1/4 of users who wanted to use Google couldn’t do […]
Feb
28
Update: the more I think about this, the more I do actually feel cynical about this after all. See TechCrunch for a posting that goes behind the PR and looks at the politics involved here. In the end though - no matter the politics - I still feel this is a useful initiative in the […]
Feb
27
Google sets JotSpot free as Google Sites
February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
Just a few days after opening up GrandCentral again, Google has now released a new version of the wiki-based group collaboration service JotSpot which is fully integrated with Google Sites. If you use Google for Domains, you can add this app to your services now.
Much to the chagrin of TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, BusinessWeek broke […]
Feb
21
Hail Google Video Ads (and kill the pre-roll)
February 21, 2008 | 3 Comments
So Google has finally opened up the floodgates to video ad heaven. Within a few days, you are bound to see more videos with text ads popping up at the bottom of the page or “InVideo” ads that also appear at the bottom of the video - courtesy of Google’s AdSense for Video (which is, […]
Feb
19
Beware of the FeedBurner
February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment
Mashable is running an interesting post about FeedBurner right now that highlights the trouble not only with the service itself, but also with a large number of recent Google acquisitions.
As Louis Gray noted on the weekend, FeedBurner had removed part of the FeedBurner statistics that many bloggers and podcasters heavily rely on. By now, that […]
Feb
12
Rumor: Google Likes Your 404 - Reality: Not Really
February 12, 2008 | 4 Comments
According to a number of reports today, Google’s latest beta of the Google Toolbar hijacks 404 pages and reroutes them to a Google 404 page with ‘Suggestions,’ including some hints for what to do next and, of course, an option to search on Google.
The reality though is different: Google isn’t taking customized 404 pages and […]
Feb
7
Shared Feeds, RSSmeme and Ecosystems
February 7, 2008 | 10 Comments
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If the beginning of this year is any indication for what is still to come, it seems like 2008 is going to be the year of the linkblogs.
When Scoble started pimping his linkblog in pretty much every single one of his posts earlier last year, I really didn’t get it. Today, I am not only […]
Feb
5
Google’s forgotten stepchildren - Jaiku and GrandCentral
February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments
Whenever I hear that Google has acquired this or that company, I can’t help but fear that Google is just going to forget about them in the long run.
Today, Google teamed up with Twitter (which seems to have stayed up so far) to provide coverage of Super Tuesday through a mash-up with Google Maps.
That’s great […]
Feb
3
Google just issued a statement about Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo! The basic tone is rather aggressive (maybe even paranoid?):
The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It’s […]
Jan
29
Is there a Google Barcode in Your Future?
January 29, 2008 | 8 Comments
Too lazy to type in a URL? There might be some help on the way. The Silicon Alley Insider reports that Google is offering its newspaper advertisers to ad a 2D barcode their ads that will take a mobile phone users with the right camera and software directly to your mobile site (apparently they are […]
Jan
25
Minor Google Reader Update: Now Shows Time of Publication
January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments
(Via Google Operating System) If you want your feeds still warm out of the server, you might have to look somewhere else than Google Reader. In its latest round of updates, Google made information about when an item was published and when it was actually added to Google Reader (they also updated the favicon):
Besides a […]
Jan
23
According to Google Blogoscoped, we might be getting closer to seeing Google Health in action. For now at least, there is a login screen, though it only takes you to a 404 page for now:
With Google Health, you can:* Build online health profiles that belong to you* Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies* Get […]
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