Beginning about 3 or 4 days ago I've noticed a change in the way Gmail groups emails together. It seems to be a subtle algorithm change but it appears that the glue has been watered down a bit. Email messages definitely don’t hang together the way they used to. Now many come In as separate — Continue reading »
End of the Road for Old Blogger
📆 May 9, 2007
When Google bought blogger.com from Pyra Labs over 4 years ago, there was a lot of head-scratching. Blogosphere wasn't new but it was a fraction of what it is today. Google wasn't new either, but it was just search engine site, a really good one. And it still was just a private company. Today, blogger.com — Continue reading »
Wikipedia via Google
📆 March 25, 2007
The other day, after reading this article about factual errors on Wikipedia, it dawned on me how often my family and I uses Wikipedia to find information. It's an amazing tool and while the warnings about mistakes and misinformation have dogged it for years, it continues to be one of the most popular sites on — Continue reading »
YouTube Copyright Trouble
📆 March 14, 2007
When Google bought the fledging, but popular video sharing site, YouTube, for $1.6 billion in early October of 2006, it created a firestorm of controversy surrounding the transaction. It seemed like we were back again in 1999, the height of the Internet bubble. Google itself had actually launched its own video sharing site months prior — Continue reading »
Gmail Mail Fetcher
📆 December 11, 2006
A colleague of mine sent me a note today regarding a new addition to Gmail, Google's free email account. It's called mail fetcher and it allows a person to import mail from other email accounts using the POP protocol. It's a trivial feature which other services such as Yahoo and Hotmail have had for years, — Continue reading »
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