Technology, Culture, Commentary on the Internet Revolution

July 20th, 2008

Try the New iGoogle!

Ionut Alex Chitu posts an great review of the new iGoogle. You really should try it for yourself. Here’s the trick to unlock the new features:
Tags: AJAX, Google, iGoogle

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By Mike Abundo -- 4 comments

July 16th, 2008

WordPress 2.6: Google Gears of War

Now this is how software should be upgraded! WordPress 2.6 ships with a plethora of cool and useful new features, minus the usual backward compatibility headaches. I just installed it on my personal blog, and it’s already making my life easier.
Tags: Blogging, Gears, Google, Open Source, WordPress

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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

July 12th, 2008

Google Lively Does Not Make Me Lively

I like to think I’m an okay gamer. I’ve been playing video games since the Atari 2600, so I can move fairly well within virtual worlds. I can Crippling Slash enemy monks in Guild Wars just as well as I can hoverboard with friendly girls in There.
Maybe that’s why my expectations of Google Lively might […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

July 2nd, 2008

Google Wants to “See” the Web’s Trillion Images

Google currently indexes images primarily through text metadata. As anyone who’s used Google to search for porn pics knows, that technique doesn’t necessarily produce the best possible results. For the longest time, in fact, Google image search said I was a nightmare.
Tags: Google, R.J. Pittman, Search

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June 13th, 2008

Yahoo is Now an AdSense Publisher

Yahoo’s most recent strategic plan involved portals, ads and APIs. They just dropped the “ads” part. They have become a Google AdSense publisher, just like thousands of Web publishers around the world.
Two years ago, Yahoo ceded search to Google. Now they’ve ceded advertising as well. With Google’s help, Yahoo has finally fended off Microsoft. Shareholders […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

May 23rd, 2008

Funny AdWords!

You can get creative with anything online — even humble text ads. Check out this compilation of hilarious Google AdWords ads.
LOL @ Nokia pwning Apple.
Tags: Advertising, AdWords, Apple, funny, Google, Humor, Nokia

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May 16th, 2008

Facebook Banning Friend Connect is Hypocrisy

Heh. I figured Facebook’s data portability “initiative” was nothing more than panicked lip service. Today they’ve banned Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API.
Here’s the funny part: they say it’s because Google Friend Connect “redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge.” Ha! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Tags: Data […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

May 13th, 2008

Google Friend Connect Plugs Sites into Social Networks

Mere days after the announcements of MySpace Data Availability and Facebook Connect, Google comes out with a lighter but wider social network data portability initiative. Last night at the Googleplex saw the announcement of Google Friend Connect, a set of widgets that lets any site plug itself into its readers’ social graphs on multiple social […]

By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

May 7th, 2008

AdSense for Search Now Uses CSE

Niniane Wang, Maile Ohye, Aileen Apolo, Jessica Lee, and now Arlene Lee — Google seems to have no shortage of attractive Asian female engineers. Arlene and Matt Wytock explain the integration of Google’s Custom Search Engine (CSE) and AdSense for Search.
Tags: AdSense, Advertising, Arlene Lee, CSE, Google, Matt Wytock, Search

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April 11th, 2008

***** on iGoogle Digg Widget

So I check my iGoogle for the twentieth time today, and I see this in my iGoogle Digg widget:

First-Ever ***** with Mechanical Digital Display, says the widget headline. I instantly think of a dirty five-letter word, and click through expecting the first-ever pussy with mechanical digital display. Kinky tech, baby.
Tags: Digg, funny, Google, iGoogle, Social […]

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