November 5, 2008 – 11:20 pm
Yahoo has been a whipping boy of late. They turn down $30+ per share from Microsoft, then the market tanks and they are lucky to be hovered in the low-teens. Google has just put the ixnay on the ad-deal-ay. Despite all of this, they have fresh API’s that wipe the floor with the top competition. [...]
November 2, 2008 – 11:22 am
Did Google arbitrarily decide we should start living on the Metric system? The “OneBox for Weather” seems to think so: What is a Google OneBox? The post here explains: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-onebox-results.html It is basically a shortcut search that returns a snippet of data, like weather or movietimes. It is really cool when it works correctly. However, [...]
October 25, 2008 – 8:56 pm
I have to say, this is one of the funniest clips I’ve seen in a long time.  John C. Reilly, you are a genius!
October 24, 2008 – 2:27 pm
I tried to sign up with SocialSpark, just to see what it was about. Â Here was the reply: Â Subject: We were unable to approve your blog Message: Thank you for your blog submission. Unfortunately we are unable to approve your blog at this time. We require that a blog contains 20 posts within the [...]
September 27, 2008 – 3:46 pm
I go through phones like gym socks. They last a year or so and then they need to be replaced. I’ve been a daily user of a mobile phone since 1995, an old Motorola StarTac. Those were cool, huh? Anyway, what I am trying to say is that I know what I like in a [...]
August 14, 2008 – 12:32 pm
Now you can click on the [TO:] link in GMail to get your contacts. This was one of the most annoying missing features in GMail. Nice work. Gmail supports easier access to contacts when composing a message Google is also improving their Postini offerings with some very robust security features. http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/security/web.html This is great news [...]
August 12, 2008 – 10:37 pm
Ruby 1.9: What to Expect goes into some interesting language changes for the 1.9 release.  It is still in development, however there are changes and new features abound. I wonder how much adoption we’ll see, as I assume this is going to break a ton of popular gems and plugins out there. My favorite bit: [...]
August 1, 2008 – 12:59 am
Google Apps Education Edition helps attract solution providers Back in May, Microsoft began offering hosted Exchange on college campuses through its Live@edu service — a move some saw as a direct response to Google’s success in the higher education market. Yahoo is also pushing to entrench its Zimbra email and collaboration desktop in higher ed. [...]
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