By admin on March 26, 2010
The Google break from China raises some questions for the enterprise considering cloud computing. It’s one thing if the network goes down. That can be fixed. But when the government does its own blockade, that’s another story.
Google Apps customers face this very issue. Google has the thorny task of explaining to its customers of what they may expect when using Google Apps in mainland China …
Posted in General | Tagged china, google, google apps, Google China
By admin on March 19, 2010
Google Analytics offers site owners an easy and free way to gather highly detailed analytics about their websites’ visitors. A lot of people, however, don’t feel comfortable with the idea that Google can track their every move on the Internet. After all, even if you don’t use any Google product yourself, you will still send personal data about yourself to Google through programs like Google Analytics. According to an announcement the Google Analytics team just posted on its blog, you will soon have the option to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics …
Posted in Search Engine | Tagged google, google analytics, privacy controls, privacy policy
By admin on March 17, 2010
Google just launched a new stable version of Google Chrome, the company’s increasingly popular browser, which introduces a number of new features and more advanced privacy controls. Chrome will now automatically detect the language of any site you surf to and offer you to translate the text for you. In addition, Google also added granular privacy controls to Chrome that allow you to turn off cookies and JavaScript on a site-by-site basis. For now, these new features are only available in the Windows version of Chrome …
Posted in Software, Web | Tagged browser wars, browsers, chrome, google, google chrome, translation
By admin on March 10, 2010
Google today is announcing the Google Apps Marketplace, and app store for the 25 million people currently using Google Apps.
The store comes out of the desire for increased functionality among Google Apps users, and the wish of developers to reach the millions of businesses that depend on Google Apps every day.
There have been companies developing for Google Apps for some time, such as SocialWok. However, the process has always been difficult, and overly complex for both developers and users alike. The new App store will change that by creating a central location for applications, a central management areas, “universal navigation,” data security, and simple sign in …
Posted in Web Application | Tagged Apps Store, google
By admin on March 8, 2010
Google looks to be following up the addition of its Google Chart Tools with a neat addition to Google Labs – the Public Data Explorer.
The purpose of the new tool, Google says on the new lab’s page, is to make “large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate”.
Google, with its access to an immense assortment of information, is in the perfect position to help us with ways to display this information …
Posted in Data, Web Application | Tagged google, public data
By admin on March 3, 2010
In a move that might rewrite the entire search market, Google is rumored to be creating a system that will let allow web publishers to submit content to Google for search indexing in real-time.
This of course follows the introduction of PubSubHubBub by Google, a tool to move syndicated content in real-time to aggregators. PubSubHubBub has become a hit among publishers looking to get their information into the market as quickly as possible …
Posted in Search Engine | Tagged google, pubsubhubbub, Real Time, search
By admin on March 1, 2010
We’ve learned that Street View will also begin to feature user-submitted photographs. According to a recent Google Lat Long blog post, “We began integrating user photos into Street View last year. User photos allow you to view locations from entirely new perspectives, whether through the eyes of a talented photographer with a knack for capturing architectural detail, or simply taken from locations we couldn’t get to… We’re making it easier to navigate through these images in a way that should feel similar to how you’re used to exploring within Street View.” …
Posted in Technology, Web Application | Tagged google, photo, street view, UGC, user-generated
By admin on February 23, 2010
We have to say, you know the end is near when entire countries advise its citizens to move on, but the final kicker comes when Google says that after this date, it will no longer support the browser that’s been with us for nearly a decade.
Google-owned YouTube will end support for Internet Explorer 6 on March 13, just two weeks after ending support on Google Docs.
Internet Explorer 6 was first released in August, 2001 and has since come pre-installed with Windows XP, which still accounted for over 60% of browsers world-wide in December of last year …
Posted in News | Tagged browser wars, browsers, google, ie6, internet explorer 6, microsoft, youtube
By admin on February 22, 2010
The Windows Phone 7 news kind of threw us a bit this week. It had almost no mention about how it would serve the enterprise. It almost seemed like Microsoft had given up.
Now we are starting to see some reports about how Windows Phone 7 would fit for the mobile enterprise. And it makes us wonder. Will the Windows Phone 7 better serve the enterprise than the iPhone? …
Posted in Mobile | Tagged apple, apple iphone, blackberry, google, google nexus one, microsoft, mobile collaboration, windows mobile, windows phone 7
By admin on February 16, 2010
MySpace and Google just announced that starting today, status updates from MySpace users will appear in Google’s real-time search. MySpace announced its real-time Stream API in December and Google launched its real-time search feature just a day before the MySpace announcement. While Google was one of MySpace’s launch partners (together with OneRiot), it took Google until today to include MySpace updates in its real-time search.
Currently, Twitter dominates Google’s real-time search results, though Google also plans to include updates from FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca in its search results in the future. Google also has a deal with Facebook to show status updates from groups, companies and celebrities in its real-time search results …
Posted in Search Engine, Social Media | Tagged google, myspace, real time web, real-time search, status updates
