An online notebook
Have spent a little time playing with a couple of Google products which have changed since I last used them – both for the better. Firstly, Google Reader, which was rubbish before, and now is a lot better. As is probably obvious, it’s an online RSS aggregator, like BlogLines (only a bit worse). It’s had … Keep reading
Is now apparently live, here. Too slow to access at the moment though. Mike Arrington has a review, I’ll do one when I can get it. [tags]google, google calendar[/tags]
Google have added a directory of possible services to their personal homepage, as announced on their official blog. It provides a much wider variety of easy-to-add content than before, but doesn’t stop the homepage being a pretty static and dull affair compared to the likes of Protopage and Netvibes. You also have to be logged … Keep reading
Google’s recent page creator has drawn some conflicting views. I’ll pluck two out here. Scoble is broadly in favour: I see a lot of bloggers saying “so” about Google’s new Web Page Creator. I think bloggers often miss the larger conversation that we should be having: the Office Live team tells me that 45% of … Keep reading
Google has released another new service: this time a web page editor and host. Not really a competitor to it’s own Blogger service, this system just produces flat sites, so really it should be seen as belonging to the same breed as Yahoo!’s GeoCities (is it still called that?) Anyway, I have been having a play, … Keep reading