- How to be remarkable #131: Promote your company like Google
Google has had a long history of promoting its products in innovative styles. You remember the comics made to promote Chrome in 2008, or the beautiful online book made in html5 to promote html5 usageNow Google Indonesia …
Topic: Internet and Websites, Remarkable, Google | Read more
- Autocomplete: Is it good or bad?
There are two kinds of Autocompletes: Google-type, suggesting words as you type, or Spelling-corrector type. Both may work or fcuk up, depending on the situation. But, one area where autocomplete may be hurting us i…
Topic: Google, Trend | Read more
- 4 ways how to keep your Google (and Chrome)-related activities private from Google
The best idea to deal with Google looking into your life may be not to use Google, but even with its flaws, Google is the best option. So, what else can you do to put blinkers on Google's always-on eyesSome sugestions fr…
Topic: Google, Privacy, Howto, Geek | Read more
- How fights between big companies (like Google vs. Microsoft) are useful for the rest of us: Helps bring more private information public
When Microsoft wrote on its blog about Motorola (now owned by Google) overcharging Microsoft for use of its video-related patents, we came to know that Microsoft was planning to use 50 of Motorola's patents, that patent …
Topic: Google, Microsoft, Patent fight | Read more
- How Google isn't that usable anymore: New mantra is 'copy everything, don't be simple'
As Google becomes more and more like a content provider, moving away from its origin as an elegant, efficient and effing fast indexer, Google may be losing its reputation of providing a fast and simple service. How can G…
Topic: Google, Usability | Read more
- Is Google is really good in India?
Forget all those shiny Google ads for Chrome or jobs. Plugd.in writes about how Google gives the wrong end of the stick to free speech in India. Reportedly, Google has complied to 50% content removal requests from Indian…
Topic: Civil Liberties, Google | Read more
- Do big websites have a better deal with Google?
To protect its big tent, Google has its growing and frequently updated set of rules. Rule #1: thou shalt not sell links on your blog/site. But, as we have seen in the case in the case of Mahalo, Google is pretty lenient …
Topic: Big Media doing wrong, Google | Read more
- Five Best Theories Bbout Google's China Walkout
Not everyone is shouting 'bravo' to Google. There are some other voices too, pointing at other reasons, some business, some politics. A roundup of the latest developments:
On Baidu, the dominant Chinese Search Engine,…
Topic: Google, Censorship, Yro | Read more
- Why did Google build the Nexus One smartphone?
The common answer is: because Google sees a rival in form of Apple and because there is shift towards mobile computing. That may be but what is the main reason Google got into the phone business Well. The answer is a sim…
Topic: Wireless, Google, Googlephone, | Read more
- The Google Nexus One Termination Fee Problem
It is a big problem. You buy a subsidized smartphone and if you choose to end the contract, you pay damages not only to the carrier (T-Mobile) but also to the seller (Google)
What does the Nexus Fine Print actually s…
Topic: Advocacy, Consumer, Googlephone | Read more
- Google Nexus News roundup: complaints, new SDK etc...
A big product brings with it a whole ot of news, from customers, partners, reviewers, developers and so on.
Readwriteweb does a credible review of the Nexus One.
Consumer complaints for Nexus One are pouring in. Con…
Topic: Wireless, Google, Googlephone, Android, Droid | Read more
- Google vs. China: How Google plans to win in China, destroy Bing...
Faced with a soild Baidu in China, and helped by a timely attemted hack of Gmail accounts held by Chinese Human rights activists right from Google's servers, Google has chosen to play the "Do No Evil" mantra. From now …
Topic: Internet and Websites, Google, Yro | Read more
- Google GDrive: Competition for Amazon S3
Google is getting more serious about cloud computing by the day and has just announced that the GDrive online file storage system.
GDrive will give 1GB free storage to users. It will charge $.25/G/year for more spac…
Topic: Internet and Websites, Google, Cloud-computing | Read more
- Our Google and Microsoft Government
First, Microsoft established its bases in governments around the world, bribing them to use its bloated and expensive office and server applications. Now, in the online cloud computing age, you got Google cornering alm…
Topic: Big Business, Googleevil, Microsoftevil | Read more
- Dumb ideas of 2009 #4: The demographic dividend
Perhaps the dumbest idea of the decade. Everyone is selling you the 'Youth power' mantra, but before you pass out in the rabid nationalist delirium, time to get off the train at the halt of 'WTF'. Some 35 years back, th…
Topic: Politics and Government, 2009, Google, Demographic dividend | Read more
- Dumb ideas of 2009 #3: No one is searching for how to make India better, boss
According to the big search book of Google Sir, we Indians want know 1. how to kiss (still too much sexual repression, bhaijee?), 2. how to hack (empty mind is a dangerous mind), 3. how to meditate (the pressures of ge…
Topic: 2009, Google | Read more
- peoplesearchguide: a simpleguide to track people online
Whatever people might say, web 2.0 has proven to be a boon in tracking anyone online. Ask any HR flack or a college admission guy. Here is a short list of things you might want to to serach for someone online:
1. Star…
Topic: DIY, Simpleguide, Google, Howto | Read more
- simplelist: 5 tools for creating Online Databases
This simplelist is for those of you who want to save data online and use that in quries and reports. Although databases are a step upwards of spreadsheets, Google Forms is included in this list because it is plainly exci…
Topic: Software, Online database, Simplelist, Google | Read more
- Can Google Phone change the mobile business in the United States?
Can Google's Wireless plans break the Carriers' monopoly?
Can Google Phone work elsewhere in the world?
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- Dave winer looks at the chances for google phone
Here is what Dave Winer says about GPhone's chances:
Combining search with email, maps and news is something they should be able to make work better than their competitors because they've done it so well on the …
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