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Google vs Bing - which will you use?

June 1, 2009 – 5:57 pm

My Twitter feed is starting to get a heap of activity about bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, so I thought I better check it out.
There’s an interesting conversation going on over at Robert Scoble’s friendfeed - must be great to have so many connections - but even with all the opinion going on, it’s still […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, search | Comments (2)

‘Wave’ goodbye to email - Google Wave is on its way.

May 29, 2009 – 8:55 am

So this morning when I started up my computer and loaded its email client there was a small wave of emails about this thing called Google Wave. Something’s happening over there at Google’s developer’s conference. It seems that in the keynote they have announced a new product/service called Google Wave. From […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, Web 2.0, innovation, open source | Comments (0)

Nice new search options from Google

May 15, 2009 – 8:26 am

Just the other day I was trying to find some reviews on a particular software product but was really only interested in quite recent ones. As the product in question has been around for some years there were plenty of reviews about it but I had a really difficult time finding recent ones with […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, search | Comments (1)

Is Google my ePortfolio? (revisited)

April 28, 2009 – 8:36 am

Quite some time ago (way back in June 2007) I posed this question in a post and while the intent was never really to answer the question with a yes, but to highlight some of the features that are important to eportfolios and their owners, it’s interesting to see that in some sort of manner, […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, social networking, e-portfolio | Comments (2)

a great post from the Google Blog

February 20, 2009 – 8:06 am

If any of the following quotes interest you at all, you should really take the time to read this reasonably lengthy, but very compelling post from Jonathan Rosenberg, SVP, Product Management on the Google Blog:

we are in the midst of what is likely the worst economic situation of our lifetimes
Access to information has completed its […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, search | Comments (0)

letting the world know where you are/another nail in the privacy coffin

February 5, 2009 – 7:36 am

yet another great service from Google - Google Latitude. Using it, your friends etc can know where you are at any time. You can have your location updated automatically or you can set it manually (great for those who need to be in two places at once!). Of course its all opt-in […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, privacy | Comments (0)

100,000 articles on knol - but do you know anyone who uses it?

January 19, 2009 – 7:25 am

Bit of a surprise this morning when I read from the Google blog that knol has reached the 100,000 ‘knols’ milestone. It’s only been six months since launch and I had forgotten all about it. I am not sure what surprised me most - that it had reached the milestone or that it […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau | Comments (1)

My first post using Google Chrome

September 3, 2008 – 9:01 am

So this morning when I fired up my browser (Firefox) for the first time, Google’s home page had changed again - yesterday the stump jump plough, today a whole new browser is available. I started to read about it yesterday on Google’s blog and obviously there is a stack of posts all over the […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau | Comments (0)

one from (the?) left field

September 2, 2008 – 8:33 am

Not the usual sort of technology that I comment on but the stump jump plough would have been the iPhone of the 1800’s (that’s probably doing it a bit of a dis-service). Anyway, its nice to see the local Google team recognising this with a bit of a local flavour on their home […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau | Comments (0)

Google should buy Twitter

May 21, 2008 – 8:34 am

Well… not really but one of the biggest problems that I have with Twitter (which is a great idea) is its reliability. I just experienced not being able to get into it yet again. This follows closely from problems I had yesterday and on what seems like many previous occasions. So why […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, Twitter | Comments (1)