Posts Tagged ‘google’
Block head
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 23, 2012
by iluetkeb This ZDnet author thinks that Google+’s best feature is the power to shut fools up. He goes on to describe how to follow only the people you want to hear from and how to block those you don’t. As I read the article, I wondered if blocking on Twitter did not do the same thing. [...]
Hanging out
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 27, 2012
Video source Earlier this month, I had the best excuse to try Google Hangouts. I had to video conference with Google folks in the USA and Australia. I did a trial run with a few folks at CeL and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was. Just how easy? Almost as easy as sending email. If [...]
Sign of the times
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 12, 2012
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Google+ is Facebook minus?
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 30, 2011
I don’t know of any techie blog that did not have something to say about Google’s announcement of Google+ project yesterday. The video below outlines the idea and the link above provides details and more videos about circles, sparks, hangouts and the emphasis on mobile. Video source Some techie bloggers and writers are wondering out loud [...]
Google ads
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 6, 2010
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Googled
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 24, 2010
That’s all of us at Google HQ in Mountain View, California. We were there for a 1.5 hour meeting and just before we left for the airport! The inside of the Google Enterprise office building is what I had imagined creative work places to be like: Open, glass-walled, large areas for play, free food, and [...]
Is Google making us clever or stupid?
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 10, 2009
Last year, a writer at The Atlantic asked Is Google Making Us Stupid? Recently another writer from the same publication wondered if the opposite was true. They might seem to be taking different sides, but they are really providing depth to the same coin. The first author said: the Net seems to be doing is [...]
Bing? Bong!
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 1, 2009
Microsoft’s Bing search engine was “released” earlier than expected. Here’s a video preview. Video source Did people light up and go “bing!” when they used it? Not many from what I’ve read. I’ve discovered that you have to key in basic (or dumb) phrases instead of specific ones. If you were shopping for an LCD [...]
Use Gmail offline
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 28, 2009
Hot off the Google Enterprise blog: Use Gmail offline using Google Gears.
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