From The Observer: Google is on the move. The internet giant has held talks with Orange, the mobile phone operator, about a multi-billion-dollar partnership to create a ‘Google phone’ which makes it easy to search the web wherever you are.…

From TechCrunch: Google Takes Out Ajax Spreadsheet iRows A popular Hebrew blog is reporting that the two founders of Israeli startup iRows have been hired by Google. Along with ZohoSheet and NumSum, iRows is one of a few online Ajax…

Ben, in the comments, wrote: But they already have Google Notebook () which I always thought of as a WYSIWYG wiki. JotSpot certainly fits in with their suite of web services though. I think the last point is the key.…

So, NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. This means I am going to have to cut back a little, and so it’s likely to be my del.icio.us daily posting only for a little while. This is a bit of shame as there is…

JotSpot has been purchased by Google, according to the official Google blog: OK, I can finally blurt it out: JotSpot is now part of Google, and I couldn’t be more excited. Three years ago my friend Graham Spencer and I…

FireFix 2.0 keeps crashing on me. Anyone else having problems? Tags: firefox

Strange times at the moment. Yesterday I went to the doctors to try and get my sore throat sorted out – I’ve had it for about a month now. When I left, I had diabetes. Everyone has been cool so…

Am running the recently v2 of FireFox, only this strange thing is happening at the moment, a weird beige strip between the title and the menu bar, using up screen estate and generally being annoying… Tags: firefox

Interesting post on Google Operating System blog: If Gmail were integrated with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, it would have a new link next to some attachments that says “Import in Google Docs & Spreadsheets”. This way, you could edit these…

What was Writely is now Google Docs. Sigh. They’ve combined it with the spreadsheet package, so they are available from the same screen – the homepage being effectively a file manager when you log in. One criticism of Google when…