Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Jobe Roberts
Last time it was Yahoo swallowing Flickr, now my YouTube & Google accounts have been linked to the collective.
Um, ok. Now what? What exactly just happened? Don’t worry, they’ve simply merged the member databases and now you can probably share information between the sites. Oh, and by the way your gMail contacts can see [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Jobe Roberts
Finally those difficult to use and awkward little buttons on iGoogle are about to be nixed. The problem with the UI is that the ‘remove this’ button marked with an ‘x’ is right next to the ‘expand this’ button marked with a ‘+’. If you’re like me you’re forever deleting the application you’re [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Ummm.. So the Pope is visiting New York… I’m wondering why not Boston???? Meanwhile I’m re-reading the modern classics. Also in the news.. apparently Google is no longer “not evil”… yeesh…
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Apparently, Google was inspired by David Horwitz’s plan to buy homeless people in NY some KFC… Their plan is to give every homeless person in San Francisco a local 415 phone number and free voice mail account. This is being done through Google’s acquisition last year of Grand Central. This proves Alec [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
1. “Why don’t you shut up?” - that’s what Spain’s king Juan Carlos told Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in a debate. The clip has become the ringtone of choice for 500,000 spaniards, having generated $2 million in sales.
2. China’s Huawei Networks shows amazing growth in the service provider router market ranking a [...]
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Posted on August 10th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Facebook has been doing its best to fight off spam. In particular, they’ve been keeping a close eye on their API developers. I’m quite happy to hear this. Way to go Facebook! Unfortunately, they have not been so diligent with regards to the Google ads that they have on their site. [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
To me, Gatineau is a run-down part of Canada’s national capital region. It’s best attribute is that you can buy beer in corner stores (depanneurs). To Microsoft, Gatineau is their version of Google Analytics that is soon going into alpha. SEO blogger David Naylor has posted some early screen shots. [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
The GoogleEarth store is a pretty tiny place, considering it’s named after an entire planet, and one of that planet’s most dominant software companies. One of their recently introduced products is this nifty Trackstick. Carry it around with you and it will record your GPS coordinates. Plug it into a usb port, [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
They said they’d shut down the old Analytics UI on July 18th. It’s still working…. shhhh don’t anybody tell
UPDATE: old analytics UI was finally yanked this weekend… RIP.
Tags: Google, analytics
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Posted on July 13th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Freebase.com will be a public service free database which anyone can contribute to.
How do people use Freebase.com?
Freebase.com allows anyone to contribute, structure, search, copy and use data, through either the Freebase.com web site or through application program interfaces (APIs). Freebase makes it easy to put data in and pull data out for any commercial or [...]
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