Google Calendar: Familyware?
I love - and I mean love - Google calendar’s “interface”:http://calendar.google.com/. It’s just right. And Charlene Li’s “observation”:http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2006/04/google_calendar.html that it’ll help her with planning a kid’s play date hits on an important, even critical, problem this solves: familyware.
What do I mean? Robin uses Outlook on her home computer, which syncs with her Blackberry. I use [...]
Xooglers
Fascinating, insightful “group blog”:http://xooglers.blogspot.com by a bunch of Google alumni. It’s an absolute must-read for anyone who wants to understand about how start-ups grow, build the team, etc. Perhaps most revealing for me are the hiccups. In a young start-up, every misstep feels like you’re on the verge of failure. Once you read “this [...]
Google’s supporting the legal profession
I guess, as a more-or-less lawyer (though a happily non-practicing one), I should be glad that Google’s keeping a bunch of my former classmates and colleagues employed. But it strikes me as somewhat unnecessary:
Last week, we mentioned how Google News was prominently displaying articles from another site that was simply copying Techdirt’s content (with attribution [...]
Gmail as spam filter
Co-worker John Zeratsky posted a few weeks ago about “using Gmail as a spam filter”:http://johnzeratsky.com/archives/000715.php — and I’m embarrassed to admit this never occurred to me. (You may recall around the same time I was investigating how to “solve my spam problem”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2005/04/26/onlymyemail_spam_service.php, with no success.)
I’ve implemented this — essentially forwarding all of my rklau.com e-mail [...]
Google Page Rank patent application
Caught at “/.”:http://slashdot.org/articles/05/06/15/2245240.shtml?tid=217&tid=95, Google has “filed a patent application”:http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/6-10-2005-71368.asp for its PageRank technology. Nothing necessarily shocking — slow and steady, get inbound links, don’t be evil kind of stuff — but very interesting to see it spelled out.
Google Web Accelerator: Not so fast…
I gave the new “Google Web Accelerator”:http://webaccelerator.google.com/ a try the other day without really stopping to think about it. Of my many complaints about computing, _slow loading web pages_ is not at the top of the list. In 1996? Sure, you bet. That 56kbps dial-up connection to Earthlink seemed fast for about an hour, then [...]
Google Announces Google Gulp
Another good one from Google — “Google Gulp”:http://www.google.com/googlegulp/. Unlike last year’s April Fool’s “announcement”:http://www.adammessinger.com/2004/04/01/press-falls-for-google-gmail-prank, this one is pretty clearly a joke…
Google Desktop Plugins
Wow — there are plugins for “Google Desktop Search”:http://desktop.google.com/plugins.html, including one for Trillian Pro. Very nice.
Google digitizing U Michigan’s library
All “7 million volumes”:http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2004/12/google_search_t.html of the Michigan library are getting Googled.
Incredible.
Spam experiment
About six weeks ago, I reconfigured my mail server to forward all e-mail not addressed to known users at rklau.com to Gmail. (This is also known as “star aliasing” — so if you sent e-mail to loser@rklau.com it would still go somewhere.) In the days before spam, this was a fun thing for friends to [...]
