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Song from Google Nexus S Video

It wasn’t all that hard to find, but I bet a lot of people will be looking for the song from the Google Nexus S video since they don’t credit it in the video or on the YouTube page. (And since my wife is a French teacher, I thought maybe I could help other French [...]

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Things I Read Today [aka Links!]

Rachel at cre8d design bemoans the loss of long-form writing. The example is a book telling a story composed of emails. While I agree with the sentiment that the loss of long-form writing is just that – a true loss – I’d be interested in seeing the same book told through Tweets and TwitPics (or [...]

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Web Apps = Automatic Upgrades

While it wasn’t one of the major factors I talked about in my previous post, the following is a quick and easy example of another reason that webapps kick ass: No Upgrade Cycle Google launched Buzz 2 days ago, and already their making changes based on user feedback. But the best part is not that [...]

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Mobile + Cloud = Magic … Right Now!

It’s funny that the these two posts both appeared on TechCrunch just yesterday… First: Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt on the Magical Potential of Mobile Cloud. I will re-blockquote: The mobile platforms, Android and the others, are so powerful now that you can build client apps that do magical things that are connected with the cloud. [...]

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Gmail’s Magic Inbox

Google Operating System has found some Gmail code that indicates the coming of a social inbox! So, not only will we have one inbox for Everything, but it’ll be organized by importance (or at least how important Google thinks things are).

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Thank God Google! Suggest comes to Image Search

In searching for the image for my Aardvark post, I just discovered that Google has added the drop-down suggestion list to Image Search! I just used it to find the images for this post! As someone who writes 3 (or maybe more ) blogs, and likes to use relevant images in his posts, I can’t [...]

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The Hulu Takeover

According to TechCrunch, Hulu gained 10 million viewers in Feburary, which is an impressive number, but if you look at their chart, what I think is more impressive is the 64.5 minutes per viewer which is second in the top 10 behind only Google Sites (aka YouTube) which had 134 minutes, and 3.6 times more [...]

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One Inbox To Rule Them All

or: All Your Inbox Are Belong To Us So, there’s a thing called Google Voice (via TechCrunch). And to quote TechCrunch: Google also says that full integration with Gmail is coming, but won’t say when. Personally, having all my email, SMS and transcribed voicemails in a single inbox could be life-changing. Yes indeed. Of course, [...]

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How Long Before Disqus adds Google FriendConnect Login?

Since Google’s FriendConnect now has public APIs and Joost de Valk (is that his real name?) already has a WordPress plugin, it seems like only a matter of minutes days until Disqus will add the ability to login through Google to their plugin. (Would it help if I said Please?)

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Is IE7 filtering out Google Ads?

You can click for a larger view… I’m not the only one who’s noticed. Internet Explorer 7 blocking Google AdSense IE7 disables javascript with the security setting on “high”, which would not allow AdSense ads to show along with numerous features of most websites. IE6 works exactly the same and the phenomenon is definitely not [...]

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