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I used to get a lot of traffic on my Niagara Falls Blog and PCIN.net Update blog. However, at some point it dropped off significantly. The PCIN.net Update blog certainly may have been my fault, as I wasn’t posting often, but I was posting a lot on my Niagara Falls Blog. I’m sure that it …
From CNN.com: It’s given us robot cars and internet-enabled glasses — but when it came to creating a “Street View” of a desert, Google hit on a low-tech solution. It hired a camel. The beast has become the first animal to carry Google’s Trekker camera, which is typically hoisted by humans to capture 360-degree images …
I’m a little behind in my podcasts, but today I listened to a Fresh Air broadcast from 6 weeks ago about all the data that online services know about you. Investigative reporter Julia Angwin was curious what Google knew about her, so she asked the company for her search data. “It turns out I had …
Have you seen the Google Earth Clock? If not, you really should! The site shows you the current time, and uses shapes from Google Maps to display the numbers. When I took this screenshot it was 12:34
From the New York Times: Google’s various offices and campuses around the globe reflect the company’s overarching philosophy, which is nothing less than “to create the happiest, most productive workplace in the world,” according to a Google spokesman, Jordan Newman. But do its unorthodox workplaces and lavish perks yield the kind of creativity it prides …
I have a Windows 7 computer and I connect to my home computer from work. For some reason Google Chrome works great at home, but when I connect remotely, it crashes on me. It is similar to the description at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=165636 I’m posting about this with the hopes that someone will leave a comment about …
I, like many people, still use RSS feeds a lot. I have a Google Account and use Google Reader several times a day. As you’ve no doubt heard, Google Reader will be discontinued as of July 1, 2013. To put it mildy, this sucks! I don’t understand why Google doesn’t just leave it up. They …
From the New York Times: After failing to make any headway as a search engine, Ask.com is largely abandoning the effort and will now become a question-and-answer service. The retreat is a major blow for Barry Diller, the chief executive of the e-commerce company IAC/InterActiveCorp, which had paid $1.85 billion in 2005 for Ask.com and …
What’s a bookmarklet? Well, the Bookmarklets.com home page describes them in this way: Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Firefox and Explorer web browsers. Bookmarklets are free. Bookmarklets allow you to: * Modify the way you see someone else’s webpage. * Extract data from a webpage. * Search more …
From the Toronto Star: Those seconds you spent playing Google’s interactive Pac-Man fed a worldwide productivity drain of 4.82 million hours, an online calculation says. RescueTime, a software tool to measure how employees spent their time, found that people who clicked through the Google-Pac-Man logo on Friday squandered an average of 36 extra seconds more …