Tag: google

  • Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network – Official Google Blog

    Google wants to be an ISP.

  • Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites – TechCrunch

    The push for dropping IE6 just got a big boost from Google.

  • Modern Thoughts On Open Source

    Open source is infrastructure for the modern internet and thus really modern computing.

  • Firefox vs. Chrome

    PC World yesterday ran a piece on Chrome and Firefox, comparing the two and essentially Firefox was dead and Chrome was going to win the latest browser battle. Run Chrome and Firefox side-by-side, and Firefox is embarrassingly slow. It’s not even in the same league. It’s an old man on the running track trying to […]

  • 100,000th Knol Published and No One Cares But Google

    Knol is a ridiculous scheme by Google to create a Wikipedia onto it’s own, except one that’s worse. Knol takes the idea that there is actually a single person out there who is an expert on a field and uses them to write an article on it, and through everybody else going, “Hey, great Knol” […]

  • Everybody Take a Step Back and Breathe

    Want to know what happened on the internet today? Slashdot | Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware Google Mistakenly Labels The Internet as Malware Google Red-Faced…And Me, Too Updated – Google: Every site on the Web is harmful Oh and that isn’t even half of the articles that […]

  • Don’t Let Google See Your Private Information

    There was a story in Techcrunch today about a hosting provider (Meteora Technologies Group) that accidentally revealing revealed a dump of Kleiner Perkins’s iFund database. The moral of the story don’t even put stuff publicly online that you don’t want Google (or the public) to find out about. Google isn’t just good at their job, […]

  • Keep Lowering the Bar: On Everything

    Want to become a successful candidate, business, tool, whatever – then keep lowering the bar towards people interacting with you. Companies that raise the bar towards interaction with the business and the people involved in the business will eventually fail. No matter how large you are, the people want and enjoy easy access. Even if […]

  • Daily Links April 9th, 2008

    Lots of news from Yahoo in it’s efforts to fight off the takeover offer from Microsoft. Yahoo announced they will go through a two week trial period outsourcing their search ads to Google News Corp is in talks to join with Microsoft in it’s takeover offer for Yahoo AOL and Yahoo are looking at joining […]

  • Changes To My Online Presence

    This week has been an interesting week for me in terms of what I am doing online with my various social networks. Reducing the number of websites/social networks that I have Moving away from Facebook and more to FriendFeed Loving and Using Ping.fm heavily So what exactly am I doing with each of these? I […]