Recent Posts Tagged With 'google'

• The GMail Panic Button

  Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 15:16 in internet, google, gmail, panic button

  From TechCrunch Have you ever sent an email, and just as it was going on its merry way, you realize you misspelled something or you sent it to the wrong person. This happens to me a lot on Gmail because sending an email is not always instant. An...

• Google Earth and Discovery

  Posted on Thursday February 26th, 2009 at 20:44 in google, discovery, google earth

  Time’s Gallery of Google Earth Discoveries Columbus and Magellan had it rough. Exploration these days is quite literally an armchair activity, as high-resolution satellite images and tools like Google Earth make it possible for anyone with...

• GMail Goes Down - ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE

  Posted on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 19:19 in google, gmail, downtime

  In a stunning turn of events, Google’s e-mail favorite GMail went down for a period of about several hours (Reported to be from about 1:30 AM to 7:00 AM EST). Much pain and suffering ensued. If I sounded sarcastic in that sentence, I wasn&...

• Google Tracks Flu Outbreaks

  Posted on Tuesday November 11th, 2008 at 22:58 in internet, google, journalism, twitter

  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/tracking-flu-trends.html For those of you who won’t RTFA, Google.org is now using Google Zeitgeist (the tracking of number of searches on Google) to track flu outbreak patterns. According to their own...

• Google Inundated with Good Ideas

  Posted on Wednesday October 22nd, 2008 at 13:10 in google, ideas

  http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/10/22/google.project.update/index.html Google held a contest to come up with a “worldchanging idea”, and they got 150k responses. This doesn’t surprise me, however, I’d like to know how man...