Actually I should of expected it. I got a note mentioning they where going to transition my Feedburner account over to Google, and I should of expected they wouldn’t actually be smart and use redirects. Plus the Feedburner WordPress plugin must be hard coded for the Feedburner URL (instead of feedburner.google.com) because with it activated [...]
Last month, our fair city became the 44th (give or take) to be included in one of Google’s more ingenious offerings – the Street View.
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I was reading my paper at lunch like I normally do and I ran across that article. The intersting part about it, was about a month ago I noticed they had [...]
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“I just got two tickets to Radiohead by being the ‘first’ to respond to a co-worker’s ‘first-come, first-serve’ email. Someone else had already won them, but I told everyone to check their inboxes again. Everyone sort of knows I used Custom Time on this one, but I’m denying it.”
Robby S., Paralegal
[Google's approach to email]
I figured [...]
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I ran across this days ago… and I’m sad to say I’ve been so sucked into it (and busy) that I hadn’t posted about it. There isn’t really much to say.
Flickrvision is a mashup of Flickr and Google Maps. Just by visiting you see as photos are uploaded to Flickr and from where.
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This is humorous in retrospect. And you’ve got to enjoy the feeling of “omg” that you get from the actors. And I get left with one question…
What did they see.
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Ok I got offered to try a new Ad thing from Google called YouTube Video Ads. And considering I had a few people actually mention they like the little mini video Ads that sometimes showed up on the site (Yes some of you are unusual… but you know that). I decided to implement them.
Currently they [...]
Web search leader Google Inc. will sponsor a $30 million competition for an unmanned lunar landing, following up on the $10 million Ansari X Prize that spurred a private sector race to space.
Like the Ansari X Prize, which was claimed in 2004 by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and financier Paul Allen for a pair of [...]
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Adding a map to your website or blog is now as easy as embedding a YouTube video. No programming skills are required, and there’s no need to sign up for a Maps API key. All it takes is three simple steps:
1. Go to Google Maps and pull up the map you want to embed. It [...]
They are still closing down the ability to purchase videos from Google Video, but they are admitting that the way they where going to close it down was incorrectly done.
We planned to give these users a full refund or more. And because we weren’t sure if we had all the correct addresses, latest credit card [...]
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Eye On You: Google Streetview Camera Car Fleet Set to Invade AmericaA camera-toting tipster saw what appeared to be a giant armada of Chevy Cobalt cars in the Google parking lot, getting ready to take pictures of the entire world (or thereabouts) with special 360° cameras. The tipster says he followed a Google camera van [...]
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