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 […]
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 […]
From ZDNet comes a post reporting of Google’s CEO pleading to crawl Facebook. Quoted as saying “If it’s not searchable by Google, it’s not open, and open is best for the consumer,”. Hmmm, best for the consumer or marketer? Eric Schmidt is quoted as then going on to say that people should be able to […]
Google, the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Sydney Linux User’s Group are hosting an event for the first annual Document Freedom day on Wednesday 26th March at the Sydney Google offices. From the document freedom site:
“The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with grassroots action for promotion of […]
Here’s another nice service from Google if for some reason you aren’t able to run Google Earth on your desktop (not in the SOE or something like that) and would like to search and view some of images that ‘Sky in Google Earth’ offers. Google Sky puts all this into your browser. The […]
It’s always good to look at successful organisations and try to learn from some of their practices/experience. Some time ago we looked at Google and their ‘20% time’ for engineers. Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their time free to work on what they are really passionate about. As […]
From TechCrunch the news that Apple is making a number of announcements today for the iPhone. Support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync is a big one on its own. I can just imagine the groans from IT/finance departments in organisations around the world (not here in Australia yet as we don’t have the iPhone […]
December 17, 2007 – 7:56 am
Yet another interesting announcement from Google. It seems they are about to launch a new tool called knol. A knol is a ‘unit of knowledge’ and the service aims to encourage anyone who is ‘expert’ in something to write an article about it. According to Google the service aims to highlight authors […]
November 30, 2007 – 12:29 pm
Google Street view recently arrived in Australia and is already encountering interesting opinions on privacy in particular. Google Earth and Google Maps are great services already but it certainly does add an extra dimension when you are able to look at a location (360 degrees too) from street level. Of course at street […]
