With Google Labs projects being discontinued by Google came the cancellation or transfer of popular services. One of the services that will be discontinued this November is GoogleLookup. GoogleLookup is a Google Labs technology that allows Google Docs spreadsheet users to search for and add data into their spreadsheets. Spreadsheet cells that make use of [...]

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Social media signals have become more important in recent years for websites. Search engines use the noise created on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+ in their algorithms. I’m not really a fan of fan pages and all that kind of stuff that goes along with it. The core reason here is [...]

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Those of you who follow my articles with any regularity will know that one of the biggest arguments I make about the modern technology industry is their insistence on playing Patent tennis with each other.  This back and forth of legal battles, and the scrabbling by technology giants to buy up valuable patent libraries only [...]

Categories: Apple, Google, Microsoft

While I have not used my Google Reader account for a long while, thanks to the awesome desktop RSS reader RSS Owl, I have been following recent news with interest. Especially the latest Google Reader update has infuriated part of the service’s user base. The update has been part of a larger scale redesign of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I sometimes feel the urge to check for new email messages during work. Other users may feel the same urge when it comes to checking social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus for new messages and updates. Others may not be able to resist watching that funny video that just got posted. Sometimes [...]

Categories: Google

If you are a heavy user of Google’s Google+ social networking product you are probably keeping the site running in a tab all the time to never miss new messages. But even if you do, you need to switch back to the tab regularly to see if there are any new notifications on Google+. Notifier [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Google Buzz was a social networking service that Google integrated into the company’s web-based email product Gmail. Google Mail users were able to make use of Buzz to share messages, photos, videos and other information with their Gmail contacts or the public. Google Buzz was a first attempt to compete with successful social networking sites [...]

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If you are a regular on Google’s social networking experiment Google+ you have noticed that the company makes changes to the site constantly. Sending messages to other Google+ users was something that you could do in two ways in the past. You could use the send an email option to contact a Google Plus user [...]

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Google recently introduced What’s Hot On Google+ on their social networking site. The new feature is linked on the Google+ sidebar under What’s Hot and in the user’s stream directly. The most recent message of the What’s Hot message pool is directly displayed in the stream. While it is possible to collapse the feature, it [...]

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