Tag Archives: google

The Grid

Dennis Mangan muses on the Facebook IPO and how American industry went from building things to amusing ourselves. I often think that the Facebook bubble will pop, but the company is doing everything it can to prevent that by tying … Continue reading

“Google’s no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet” by Alexandra Petri

The web is a series of jumping from one service to another when your favored service starts making moves like this. Google’s no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet

But you told us you liked it!

This article from Google about Gmail usability testing feels like a way to address criticism for the new look of Google products. How real users helped us develop Gmail’s new look

Search Yo Tweets

Put this URL (minus the username part where you should put your username instead) in your Launchbar search templates and you can do searches on your own tweets. http://www.google.com/search?q=site:twitter.com+inurl%3Ausername+* Hat tip to Merlin Mann on Back To Work #40. I … Continue reading

How To Delete A Google Plus Brand Page

I don’t think I’ve seen a tutorial for something like deleting a profile come up so quickly after the feature has been enabled. How To Delete A Google Plus Brand Page

Social Networks are for third graders

In case you haven’t seen this from Pinboard Founder Maciej Ceglowski. The social graph wants to turn us back into third graders, laboriously spelling out just who is our fifth-best-friend. But there’s a reason we stopped doing that kind of … Continue reading

Google+ For Business

Remember when all you needed for an online presence was a website? Get closer to your customers with Google+ Edit: Anyone else wondering of the potential for Google to downgrade your company’s website in search results in order to prop … Continue reading

Dan, why aren’t you on Google Plus?

This is why.

Google 411, Siri, Talking To Phones

From Daniel Soar’s review of books about Google: By 2007, Google knew enough about the structure of queries to be able to release a US-only directory inquiry service called GOOG-411. You dialled 1-800-4664-411 and spoke your question to the robot … Continue reading

The Web Cold War and Data Race

Facebook doesn’t like it when you don’t use their own “Like” buttons. German news site Heise serves these buttons from their own servers. Facebook views this as a violation of their terms. Their public reasoning is that it’s too easy … Continue reading