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Google offers widgets for the Mac
Google just announced three widgets for Mac OSX: one to post to your Blogger.com blog, another
to see your GMail in a glance and a third to view your archived search history. It's easy enough for me to
watch a Firefox or Safari tab for the number of new emails in my inbox. And my search history? No
thanks! See the following survey from the
University of Connecticut, released yesterday, discovered via SearchEngineWatch.com. ...
Wikipedia, Google, and Alien Brains
Both sides of the Wikipedia debate (is it good or bad, value or trash?) are well developed by this point. But that
doesn’t preclude high levels of discourse on the subject, and a wonderful conversation is happening now, with
Chris Anderson’s Long Tail blog as the focal point. Anderson argues that
Wikipedia (and Google too, by the way) has greater probablistic value than Britannica, because even though some
individual entries fall below standard, the average level of quality combined with the enormous size (ten times as many
entries as Britannica) makes it more likely to have a good research experience in Wikipedia than in a peer-reviewed
encyclopedia. This probabilistic viewpoint goes against our brains, he asserts, but is nonetheless a key to a new world
order of information presentation. Keying off this argument, Clifford Stoll concedes that Chris’s probabilistic theories
are (probably) correct, but that doesn’t mean Wikipedia and Google are good for us. By rewarding the ...
Cooliris delivers clickless previews of google search results
Have you seen the magnifying
glass in Clusty search results? There are other systems too, I know, that
provide relatively quick preview windows for your search results. Cooliris is a new Firefox plug-in that pops up
a preview window pretty quickly when you hover over Google search results. I think I like it. The company
says their "sights are set on ebay, myspace, technocrati, pubmed, yahoo, msn and many more!" I've just
begun playing with this one, but it looks like there's a fair amount to it- more functionality than you might
think. Thanks to, where else: eHub. ...
Google estimates almost 1 out of 50 Chinese searches censored
Google just posted their testimony
to the US
House investigation today on their own blog. There are no comments enabled on the Google Blog ("want to
comment on a post? send us an email!" hmmm....) so you'll have to post your thoughts on your own blog and
link it over. Here's mine. My favorite quote from the testimony is the following: "Even for political discussions, Chinese users are much more interested in local Chinese Internet sites and
sources than from abroad. Indeed, for Google web search, we estimate that fewer than 2% of all search queries in
China would result in pages from which search results would be unavailable due to filtering." Now you tell me, doesn't this sound like an awful lot of frustrated searches? The
company seems to think it can downplay this estimate, but come with my on a flight of fancy if you will. Imagine
if we were talking about cell phone conversations that were some how blocked because of content - if I told you
that almost 1 ...
Google calendar shows how it's done - who can top it?
Ok
calendaring companies out there - what have you got that can beat the new Google
Calendar? I am, in many ways, sick of Google - but you have to admit they've done a very good job here.
Two coolest things in my mind: Ajax support throughout and natural language event adding. In other words, I
can hit quick add and type "kick dog in yard at 1:30 am" and all the important details will be added to my
calendar. My goodness, it's enough to get me off my desktop calendar. Nothing else has been so far, that's
for sure.
Nicole Simon has some philosophical
thoughts to share in her review.
Trumba
blogs about the relationship between their calendars and Google's via new Trumba features that will be rolled out
tomorrow.
Looks like "who can top it" is the wrong question to ask. See Charlene Li's great long review and
comments following. It's all about the platform.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (a Winc member) has a tutorial on synching your ...
Google Local to be renamed Google Maps
In recognition of where the juice is, Google just
announced that Google Local will now be officially named Google Maps.
Sounds like a good move given the love they get for their APIs, the fact that Yahoo Maps is called what it is,
etc. I use Google Maps to search for local restaurants etc. all the time and I think I can handle the name
change. What about you? ...
Google Base is now live
So the Google Base service that was sniffed out last month is now live. Google Blogoscoped has a nice review of the app with screenshots. Haven't tried
it myself yet and honestly, I'm not that excited about it. Enough of my Base already belongs to Google, really, and it's
difficult to garner any enthusiasm for Yet Another Walled Data Garden. YMMV — let us know in the comments if
you're make use of Google Base and what you like/dislike about the service. ...
Google not meeting with Meetro?
So… perhaps the rumours of Google's
acquisition of Meetroduction were just rumours? Wendell Davis of Meetro is
denying there's an acquisition. Anyone know
where the buzz came from, then?
[Thanks, Randy] ...
Google buys Meetroduction
Shhhh, listen — yes, that is the sound of another small company being snapped up by a major portal player.
Google is expected to announce later this week their acquisition of
Meetroduction, makers of the Meetro location-based IM offering. Google is rumoured to be developing some sort of instant messaging
capabilities, and it's not too surprising to see them looking at combining this with location awareness, considering
their acquisition of Dodgeball.
[Via Om Malik] ...
Google Office today?
Via Memeorandum, via
Scoble, via
Internet News — looks like Google and Sun are
slated to make an announcement today about the much-rumoured Google Office suite. I'm presuming that such a web-based
office suite will be by default geared towards collaborative document production, but then again, I'm realizing that as
I find new Web 2.0 applications
it's not always easy to determine if they necessarily belong under the tag "social software." I'm thinking of things
like Netvibes — is it "social" just because you can syndicate RSS feeds (if so,
is NetNewsWire "social software"?)? On the
personal to social continuum, something like
Netvibes or Google personalized home gravitates pretty far down towards the
"personal" end. But these apps are clearly Web 2.0 — though perhaps more because they're slathered with AJAX than for
any other reason. Does AJAX automagically qualify an app into Web 2.0? Does Web 2.0 automagically qualify an app as
"social"? Thoughts? ...
Google Talk is already live
So it looks like the doors on Google Talk
are actually already open. Smashworld has the
settings you'll need and some
instructions on how to get it working with GAIM and Trillian, though the settings should theoretically work for any
Jabber-enabled chat client. If you get it working, post your impressions in the comments.
[Via Slashdot]
Update: Download Squad has
the scoop. ...
All your base are belong to Google
Earth to Google Base... come in Google Base… it's still showing a 403 error
right now, but word on the street 'sphere is that Google is poised to launch what sounds like a
freeform web-based database application, where folks can create datasets and make them publically shareable and, of
course, searchable. Some of the more highly relevant datasets will be included in the main Google search index and
other Google properties like Froogle, etc., though there's as yet no official announcement so it's unclear how those
criteria are determined. This I will look forward to seeing — I wonder how "social" it will be, if groups can easily
collaborate on datasets. If so, it would be an interesting addition to the collaborative media mix — sort of like
Wikipedia with structured data. No, no, wait… it'll be the
Flickr of databases! Of course. Oh and, nice try Google, we're totally onto your
"let the servers go live just long enough for bloggers to grab a screenshot and pump the ...
Google maps - World of Warcraft mashup
Mapwow.com uses the Google maps API to provide an interactive map of Azeroth, the world
in which MMO World of Warcraft is set. You can zoom in and out and drag to move locations just as with Google maps.
Unfortunately/fortunately the site has received so much buzz and traffic that they had to turn off resource points for
items like mineral ore, herb and treasure locations until they raise the cash for more hosting bandwidth -- if/when
they do, this will be a fantastic resource for WoW players. [Via WoW
Insider] ...
Panoramio mashes Google maps and photos
More Google Maps stuff coming in — thanks to Eduardo Manchon for the news of
Panoramio's soft launch. I went and tooled around a bit and this is pretty fun.
The photo pane at left updates in real-time as you scroll or zoom on the map. Clicking on an individual photo balloon
displays the image in the right hand pane, plus two smaller images beneath of the Google Maps location as well as the
satellite imagery for where that photo is located. Uploading a new photo is as simple as clicking a point on the map,
entering a title, and hitting the Browse button to find your image. It's not as full-featured as something like
Geobloggers, but conversely it's lightweight, ultra-intuitive to use and fast
in a way Geobloggers isn't (much as I love it). The real-time image updating is nice — it feels very much like
wandering about and finding interesting images. Of course, I have one mega request… integration with
Flickr? Please? :) ...
Google Talk barely whispers to Mac users
I have two major beefs and one looming concern regarding the Google
Talk client. The looming concern is privacy. The major beefs are that Google completely obviates all of its own
rhetoric about making the platform as open and accessible as
possible by a) limiting it only to Gmail
users and b) not releasing a Mac client. Hello?
I can almost see the gleam in the mythical Google eye about this
application putting them one huge step closer to routing around Microsoft by obviating the desktop layer. There is a
very tiny reflection in that gleam of the parallel universe Google wants us all to one day wake up in, stretch to the
joyous singing of birds and boot into Google OS. But guess what? Average Jane and Jack Computer User (real names
withheld to protect the innocent) are nowhere near ready to dive into Google OS. Not even close. The people Google
needs to be wooing are the early adopter tech freaks and geeks — and those people, disproportionately,
are running Mac OS X.
Not only is ...
