Google Suggest goes live, will people like it?
August 26, 2008
Google Suggest is a feature that gives you automatic recommendations when you begin to search for something — it’s eluded the official Google homepage for several years, but today it has finally found it’s way there. The question now, as Philipp Lenssen puts it, is weather it will be useful or annoying in the […]
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August 26, 2008
Google finally ready to launch Jaiku on their platform
August 23, 2008
Jaiku is down, and according to jaikuinvites, it’s because they have finally moved their system to the Google App Engine platform. There’s no official word from Google about what’s happening, but their website describes it as “server maintenance”.
If you’re wondering what Jaiku is, you can basically think of it as Twitter, but owned and […]
Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up?
August 21, 2008
Google has been gaining market share consistently since they day they opened up shop, and it doesn’t appear it will be slowing down any time soon — in July they were up to 62%. Yahoo and Microsoft have been trying their hardest, spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to try and change […]
New Android SDK finally given to developers
August 19, 2008
It’s been a long time since a new Android SDK has been publicly released to developers — the last one was made available only to contest winners which made some developers feel less than appreciated. This comes right after the FCC approved the first Android handset expected to be released very soon by HTC.
The […]
Want to know what key political players are reading?
August 18, 2008
This is an interesting idea — Google’s now sharing with the world what is catching attention from presidential candidates and political commentators. Political news isn’t hard to find online — it’s basically everywhere. Popular news featured on Google News is often political in nature, and there is certainly no shortage of political bloggers […]
Google feeds publishers with new AdSense option
August 16, 2008
When most publishers use RSS feeds to syndicate their content, most are hoping readers click through to the original content, and then they can monetize it from there — unfortunately, consumers of this feed data are often just looking for a quick fix, and not really that interested in the actual source of the information. […]
First Android phone on September 17th?
August 15, 2008
The Android project has been filled with rumor and speculation — and it continues. It sounds like the first handsets featuring Google Android will be available on September 17th for existing T-Mobile customers. There is no official word that confirms or denies this, but apparently the sources are credible.
The first “Android phone” exists. It’s […]
Google adds two new features to Gmail for Google Apps
August 13, 2008
Only a couple days after “the outage”, Google has responded with a couple new Gmail features that I’m sure some users will be happy about. Before we get to the new features, I should mention that Google has apologized for the inconvenience caused by a problem with the “contacts system” in Gmail.
We heard loud […]
Gmail locks out users for an hour
August 11, 2008
Today, Gmail went down for a “subset of users” (but from what I can tell it seems like it was everyone). When trying to log in, users were greeted with an uber descriptive error message “Temporary Error (502)”. The outage lasted for an hour, and according to the support group, the problem has […]
