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Google Expands Web Elements, Adds Reader, Translate
Google is trying to make it ever easier to take little pieces from Google and bring them to your Web site. As the company embraced YouTube embeds following their 2006 acquisition, which have helped the video site become far and away the leader on the...
Still Waiting for An Evil Google? It\'s Not Going to Happen.
Like many other early adopter technology watchers did today, I tweaked my computer settings to utilize Google's new Public DNS system - letting my Internet usage flow through Mountain View instead of through my cable Internet provider, Comcast. I did...
The Chrome OS Release Is Not About Now, It\'s About Next.
Yesterday, as most tech outlets noted, Google previewed their much-awaited Chrome Operating System - and in parallel released the code for the operating system to the open source community. By the end of the day, sites like Gdgt had compiled virtual ...
The Chrome OS Release Is Not About Now, It\'s About Next.
Yesterday, as most tech outlets noted, Google previewed their much-awaited Chrome Operating System - and in parallel released the code for the operating system to the open source community. By the end of the day, sites like Gdgt had compiled virtual ...
Social Networks\' Traffic Stabilizes, Facebook Nears Yahoo!
Facebook Up Slightly, MySpace and Twitter Flat to DownDespite November being nearly half over, the monthly traffic statistics from October have just been released by Compete.com, and it looks like there are no major surprises in the social networking...
Social Networks\' Traffic Stabilizes, Facebook Nears Yahoo!
Facebook Up Slightly, MySpace and Twitter Flat to DownDespite November being nearly half over, the monthly traffic statistics from October have just been released by Compete.com, and it looks like there are no major surprises in the social networking...
The Story of Google\'s Closure: Advanced JavaScript Tools
On Thursday, Google caught the eyes of Web developers around the world with the company's move to open source its Closure JavaScript compiler, library and template system to the Web community - the very same tools that power popular applications, inc...
The Story of Google\'s Closure: Advanced JavaScript Tools
On Thursday, Google caught the eyes of Web developers around the world with the company's move to open source its Closure JavaScript compiler, library and template system to the Web community - the very same tools that power popular applications, inc...
Why I Wouldn\'t Accept $25k To Stop Using Google Reader
Cross-Posted on my Ecademy Blog and Shared HereInformation is power - and the ability to take in more information more quickly than anybody else, all in one place, is an incredible power. The Web has been built to enable all of us to share and distri...
It Just Might Be the Droid You Are Looking For
If you are a long-time user of any product, be it a computer, a TV, a cell phone, or even power tools to help you with landscaping, you get comfortable and accustomed to those products' capabilities. As you become a product expert, you know what thes...
Could A Real Apple Fan Completely "Go Google"?
As a Mac fan in the 1990s, it was a lot easier to understand who the good guys were and who the bad guys were. Apple was very good. Intel was bad. Adobe was usually good. Microsoft was bad. Very bad. Evil. But over time as we have morphed into the la...
The Blog\'s Place In A World of Microblogging: Not Dead Yet!
Even as the microblogging space seems to be white hot these days, the world of longer-form blogging is still seeing impressive growth, with all major blogging platforms showing greater than 20 to 40 percent growth year over year, and record users, bl...
The Era of the Faceless Giant Corporation Is Over
It wasn't all that long ago when the names of companies were more likely to make me think of unfeeling skyscrapers reaching toward the heavens with their steel and glass than I was to think of the people inside who made the brand stand for something,...
Why And Where We Share: Distributing Quality With Impact, Intent
Regardless of whether you first came in contact with my content here, or through other streams, you know that the vast majority of my online life has to do with the creation, filtering and distribution of information. In addition to authoring new sto...
It's Twitter's World: The Second, Parallel, Internet
It's Twitter's world. We all just live in it. I just looked out the window from my home north toward San Francisco and saw the sky tinged with a teal blue that spanned the horizon. While at this time last year, you could only see the faintest blue wi...
Google Wave Hits Shore. Flash Flood Warning In Effect.
As you already know, Google released a waterfall of 100,000 invites to the Google Wave preview over the last day or so, giving bleeding-edge early adopter and information addicts a new playground to exchange conversations in real time. After months o...
Google Translate Widget Takes Sites and Blogs Global
According to my Google Analytics statistics, about 25 percent or more of the visitors to my blog over the last 30 days prefer a language other than English. Given I tend to use more words than pictures, it would be assumed readers would either be mul...
Framed: Should Microsoft, and Would Apple... Fight Back vs. Google?
Wednesday's announcement from Google that they were releasing a Web browser plugin called Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer gave IE users many of the same core elements they would receive by surfing with the native Chrome browser - namely support fo...
I Don\'t Want To Hear About Distributed Conversations Any More
This morning, Google introduced a feature called SideWiki for Google Toolbar users that lets people add comments and annotations to Web sites. This is not a new approach, and it has been tried with varying lacks of success in the past, as most people...
My Top Ten Favorite Google Products
As Google has grown as a company, its reach has extended well beyond its initial foundation as a massive search index. The company now represents many things - including a mobile handset platform, a Web browser, Web-based e-mail, a social network, an...
Ev and Biz Discuss Early Days of Blogger After 10th Anniversary
Today, the Web is lit up with reports of vulnerabilities in the geeky Web blogging platform, WordPress. Meanwhile, quietly, its predecessor, sporting 300 million active readers (measured on a 30-day basis), with nearly 400 million words added per day...
Blogger Quietly Turns Ten, Plans Slew of Feature Upgrades
Sunday, August 23rd came and went without a peep from Google's Blogger Team, despite the service celebrating its tenth anniversary from its initial founding at Pyra Labs. Cynically, you might construe this silence as Google's not making the product a...
Conversations on Google Reader Shared Items Are Booming
For the world's leading RSS reader, integrating social functions hasn't always been drop-dead simple and easy. With each new addition, be it the recent "Send To" features, the addition of "likes", or the ability to selectively enable friends to make ...
Google Alerts Gets PubSubHubbub, Real-Time Programmable Hooks
The Web is speeding up, and Google is playing a big role in making how we get our information faster - no matter its type. Recently, a pair of the company's engineers, Brett Slatkin and Brad Fitzpatrick, have teamed up to roll out a new protocol, Pub...
Google Engineer Tests WebFinger Client for E-mail Identity Lookup
More than a decade ago, I could open up a simple program that tapped into the Finger protocol, and see individual's information, or their status, such as the last time somebody had logged into their e-mail account, or if they had new messages. Whethe...
Google Reader Wants Me to Send My Shares Everywhere
My favorite RSS feed reader and jumping off point for information discovery and sharing, Google Reader, has caught the social bug. Fresh off their big push last month that saw a spike in the number of people exchanging shared items and finding contac...
PubSubHubbub Hits the Gas On My Google Reader Link Blog
In terms of sheer volume, there is little I do more online every day than share Google Reader items. According to my Google Reader trends statistics, I have shared 743 separate items in the last 30 days, at a rate of just under 25 a day, including we...
RSS Is Doing Great, But Stand-Alone Feed Readers Are Collapsing
Three years in technology can be an eternity. I marvel that just over three years ago, I was telling you that "RSS Is a Demanding Mistress", showing off a screen capture of my NetNewswire application, powered by Newsgator. At the time, as I complaine...
Guzzle It: The RSS-Powered Personalized Site With A Unique Name
The Web has moved away from one built around stale Web sites that treat you like any other visitor. Now, practically every leading site features personalization, giving you customized news sources, social aspects, and increasingly, the option to choo...
Google Reader "Likes" Find the More Shy Blog Readers
Since Google Reader introduced new social aspects to their popular RSS reader last Wednesday, there have been a number of reactions to the additions - most specifically around their introduction of a "like" feature, enabling readers to essentially gi...
