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EtherPad
EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by, among others, two ex-Google employees*. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration. You can then share the ....... read more
20 hours ago
Google Plans to Shut Down Lively 3D World
Google announced that on December 31st they will shut down Lively, which was their 3D chat world, and somewhat of a potential competitor to Second Life. Room widgets embedded in other sites are then ....... read more
21 hours ago
China Tibet Information Center Google-Advertising Its Views On Tibet
The Shanghaiist reports: <read more
22 hours ago
Gmail Rolls Out Themes
A couple of months ago it was mentioned here that Googles web mail client Gmail might get themes, like a black-and-green terminal view, and the waiting time seems to be over soon Google announced t ....... read more
1 day ago
Let Me Google That For You
LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com allows you to enter any search query, then grab the resulting permalink to share it with someone else. For instance, if someone in a forum would ask What does AFAIK stand ....... read more
1 day ago
What Do People Search For?
[Google Spreadsheet] Google released an app they call Search-based Keyword Tool. Google says this tool generates keyword and landing page ideas highly relevant and specific to your website and in do ....... read more
1 day ago
Monty Python's YouTube Channel
For 3 years, you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them up on YouTube... Genius comedy group Monty Python (from the BBC program Monty Pythons F ....... read more
2 days ago
If Google PageRank Could Sing
... it would probably sound like this. [Thanks Dean!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: If Google PageRank Could Sing | Comments][Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad will show in the blog and f ....... read more
2 days ago
Google's Life Photo Archive
Google together with Life magazine has published a photo archive of, according to Google, around 2 million photos (with around 8 million supposed to be released in the future). Many of these photos h ....... read more
2 days ago
Google Analytics for Flash
Google Analytics tracking is now available for Flash as well. This feature is a translation of the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language, the Google An ....... read more
3 days ago
ConsumerWatchdog.org Criticizes Certain Gmail and Chrome Features (Video)
ConsumerWatchdog released a video in which they criticize certain aspects of Google products which they consider to be privacy problems. Here are their points of focus: Gmails auto-save features, w ....... read more
3 days ago
Mirror's Edge Game Trailer
Clive Thompson at Wired says Playing Mirrors Edge will make you vomit. He argues that its because you can see your own (your avatars) body while moving e.g. the feet when jumping, or the han ....... read more
3 days ago
Google Advertises With Reportedly Wrong Directions
Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider writes: <read more
3 days ago
Google's Stuart Smith On Understanding Audiences vs "Just a Load of Engineers Producing a Load of Things"
Simon Canning of The Australian IT today writes (my emphasis): <read more
3 days ago
Google Smart Grid
Jérôme Flipo is a student living in London, presently doing a research on mobile web marketing. Last week, Google has taken an additional step to enter the energy industry by joining the DRSG Coalitio ....... read more
3 days ago
WebmasterWorld Not Always Showing Content to Google Searchers
Two years ago, the WebmasterWorld forums didnt always show the same page when you clicked through to them via Google. Matt Cutts was aware of it and then posted about how the WebmasterWorld owner ma ....... read more
9 days ago
Gmail Video Chat
Google say theyre currently rolling out a video chat option to Gmail. I cant see it yet, but according to Google, once its rolled out and you installed the Windows plug-in (and restarted your brow ....... read more
9 days ago
Book Asks "How Much Does Google Know About You?"
From the Amazon product description for the book Googling Security: <read more
7 days ago
Google's SEO Starter Guide
Googles PDF titled Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide” includes basic tips for making sites more accessible to search engines. This 22 page document focuses on a variety of topics rangin ....... read more
7 days ago
YouTube Adds "Actually Good" Tab for Onion Spoof
Satire site Onion made a spoof video saying YouTube launched a contest for $100,000 granted to the person who makes a YouTube video that would be good (as in actually worth watching ). YouTube jok ....... read more
7 days ago