An online notebook
An online notebook
If you are a Gmail user, you’ll be used to the many benefits that this webmail service provides, like massive storage, great search, powerful filtering and labelling of email, inbuilt instant messaging and voice calls over IP, and the ability…
Some news from the ColaLife campaign… as part of the submission to Google for the 10^100 competition, a 30 second video has been created. And it’s lovely: [HTML1] Please visit the YouTube page and mark the video as a favourite,…
Nice post from Steve Rubel, comparing the approach taken by two hugely innovative companies to engaging with their customers: Google isn’t exactly known as the most transparent company in the world, but they’re light years ahead of Apple – a…
Finally Google has finished making the JotSpot wiki service their own, and have relaunched it as Google Sites. This is great news, as a wiki solution is something that has been sorely missing from Google’s line-up of services for some…
Danah Boyd writes a post about a rather worrying occurence: a friend who had their Google account taken away from them: Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine found himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare, a nightmare that should make…
Now, this is depressing news. Brace yourselves. I downloaded and installed the Google toolbar this evening, just so I could check the PageRank of my site. Yeah, I know there are third party sites out there that do the same…
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to most people reading this blog that Google provides a number of services other than their traditional business area of web search. Many of the tools can be used as part of an online…
Completely unrelated to the Google UK-hosted barcampukgovweb, I’m sure, but Google have launched a dedicated UK politics site, with lots of UK politics related widgets for your iGoogle page, and a YouTube channel. One of the widgets available is based…
Mike Butcher at Techcrunch UK reports on a University tutor banning her students from researching essays on the web: The education world has pursued new technology with an almost evangelical zeal and it is time to take a step back…