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- iGoogle: Google's newest brand
- Google Blogoscoped has some excellent coverage of Googles Personalization Workshop that took place today at the Googleplex. The big news was about the Google Personalized Homepage -- which was hit with some serious server trouble last week. The service will be rebranded as "iGoogle" as of 9:00PM tonight. There...
- Tags: Google Personalized Homepage
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Users sigh in relief as Google recovers from unknown error
- Several users were up in arms yesterday as Google appeared to have lost their personalized homepage data. Their suggestion group was lit up by people worried about what had happened.After about a day of this, Google has finally "restored normality" as one user put it. Must people were...
- Tags: Google Personalized Homepage
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Use the Google Talk gadget like a real client
- Google recently gave us their Google Talk gadget which was easy to put on your Google Personalized Homepage or a website. The problem for me though was that when using Firefox, my personalized homepage often got buried by several tabs. Anyone who sent me a message would enjoy...
- Tags: Google Talk, Google Personalized Homepage, Google Gadgets, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Google Personalized Homepage themes
- Google Personalized Homepage themesWay Cool!It's the little things like these that make surfing the net fun! Try it1 You'll like it!Too Frickin' Cool for Wordsntcountries other than americaI was just wondering, do you know if the seasonal changes in theme will be included in non american locations? I am...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Personalized, Google Personalized Homepage
- Discussion threads 2007-03-20
- Google Personalized Homepage themes
- Google has done it again -- they just made something available for Google Personalized Homepage that could have a very positive effect on the number, or at least the loyalty of people using the personalized homepage. Currently, I have mine set to "Beach" -- a fairly tasteful and relaxing...
- Tags: Google Personalized Homepage, Google Personalized, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Google Talk gadget coming very soon
- Haochi from Googlified pointed me to a YouTube video from Bill Kee, product marketing manager at Google. The video showcases a Google Talk gadget for the personalized homepage -- it is very polished, and even has some unique functionality that hopefully makes it into the real client one day.click...
- Tags: video, Google Talk Gadget, YouTube Video, Google Inc., Google Talk
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Google Personalized Homepage updates look of RSS feeds
- Google Personalized Homepage updates look of RSS feedsRSSYeah.. I awoke to those new + signs on my live feeds! Very cool! I had wondred about that and how useful a feature like this would be. I would also like to note, that I was sent a link...
- Tags: Linux, RSS, Google Personalized, Google Personalized Homepage, Google Inc., RSS feed
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- Google Personalized Homepage updates look of RSS feeds
- The Google Personalized Homepage was given a minor update today that changes the display of RSS feeds. Previously, these boxes ignored much of the information in an RSS feed and simply displayed the linked up title of each article. Now you will see that each individual item has...
- Tags: Google, Google Personalized Homepage, Google Personalized, RSS, RSS feed
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- Interview with Adam Sah of Google
- Adam Sah on the Google Gadgets team talks about a newer product from Google called "Gadgets For Your Web Page" on the Google Code Blog. He outlines a few limitations that currently exist in version 1 of the service. Make sure your gadget supports 200-pixel content widths for...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- Local Chat 2.0 for Google Personalized Homepage
- Version two of my "Local Chat" module for the Google Personalized Homepage has just been released. Based on a lot of user feedback, a few important features that enhance usability have been added. One of these requests was the need for a list of cities and easy switching...
- Tags: Google Personalized, Google Personalized Homepage
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
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- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is Google working on the synchronization problem?
- ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...
- Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will you forget about Android?
- Chris O'Brien from the Silicon Valley Mercury News has an interesting article on why he thinks we will soon forget about Android. When you look at Android up against iPhone, you have to agree that it's going to be a an uphill battle. But if anyone can do...
- Tags: Google Inc., Android, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- India Radio (gadget)
- Introducing the India Radio gadget with 30 stations of Web radio. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play the live internet stream. Don't pay for web radio, when you can listen for free. This gadget uses your windows media player and real player for audio broadcasts, the...
- Tags: Web, Radio, Gadget, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- "People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"
- Do ya think? That was a key point in a BBC News article on the overall high ranking of US and UK universities worldwide. While the usual suspects (Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, in that order) scored at the top of the "Times Higher Education QS list," an...
- Tags: University, U.K., Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Where open source will be sucked into the downdraft
- Google will survive, albeit in a much smaller form. IBM will survive, and be ready to thrive when this is over. Everything else will consolidate. Bye-bye Sun. Red Hat, find a buyer. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
- The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...
- Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- I was browsing on webmagazine Salon when I came across an interesting review written by Scott Rosenberg of the book "Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know" by Randall Stross. (The title of the article is, "Google's Vulcan death grip." Boy am I a sucker.) ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
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