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Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?
via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO by Matt Cutts on May 15, 2008
The other day I realized that I enter my haircut appointments into Google Calendar, so I can search for “haircut OR (the place I get my hair cut)” and see when I’ve gotten my hair cut:Then I was reading Google Apps Hacks and Hack 25 caught my eye: “Show the difference between two dates”. A formula like “=INT(A2-A1)” will automatically compute how many days passed between the date...
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Sharing Is For Everyone! ReadBurner Now Includes Netvibes
via Official ReadBurner Blog by drew on May 13, 2008
... also integrated Netvibes into a main tab, just like we did with Google Reader, so now you can access your start page within ReadBurner.This announcements gives you a bit of an idea about what we’re up to – analyzing what people are sharing across the Web. As such, our tagline has now changed to “what’s shared on the Web.” Stay tuned for more exciting announcements soon
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Google Confirms Friend Connect
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 12, 2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s...
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Google Maps New API, in Flash!
via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on May 14, 2008
Here’s the moment all you map mashup junkies have been waiting for: Google Maps for Flash is now available for development through its new API. What a maptastic week it’s been. Flash graphics can be used for each title layer, maker and information windows, meaning you can create more dynamic map mashups. Even throw in some animation and video. For the user experience, however, the...
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Google Doctype
via Simon Willison's Weblog by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Google Doctype. So now we know what Mark Pilgrim’s been doing at Google... heading up a project to create an encyclopaedia of web development. The JavaScript UI for browsing it is a bit weird (though you do at least get real pages if you disable JavaScript in your browser).
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Too Many Choices, Too Much Content
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 14, 2008
Sometimes it's just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers. Take a day off and you're behind. Take an hour off and you just missed 300 more blog posts. In addition to the everyday struggles of information...
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Introducing the Google Maps API for Flash
via Official Google Maps API Blog by Mickey Kataria, Google Sydney on May 14, 2008
Posted by Mike Jones, Maps API TeamHere at Google, we receive a lot of feature requests - and it feels great every time we fulfill one of them. The ability to utilize the power of Google Maps from Flash is one of those requests that has been popping up on blog posts and other forums since the beginning of time (or more accurately, the beginning of the Javascript Maps API). Over the past few...
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Disqus and Seesmic Teaming Up for Video Comments
via louisgray.com by louisgray on May 14, 2008
It's only been a few weeks since I integrated Disqus commenting with my blog, but I've already reached the point where it would be hard to consider what life was like before Disqus came along. Overnight, with the help of Daniel Ha's excellent customer service, I went from flat Blogger comments that were a hassle to simplified, threaded, personalized comments in Disqus, which integrate...
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Google about to launch Flash API for Maps
via Googling Google by Garett Rogers on May 14, 2008
Google just published a page detailing how Flash developers can now use the Google Maps ActionScript API. Unfortunately, as of right now all the samples still don’t work, but based on the documentation from a guy who has never made anything in Flash, it looks pretty easy to use.This API lets Flex developers embed [...]
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Disqus and Seesmic Teaming Up for Video Comments
via louisgray.com by louisgray on May 13, 2008
It's only been a few weeks since I integrated Disqus commenting with my blog, but I've already reached the point where it would be hard to consider what life was like before Disqus came along. Overnight, with the help of Daniel Ha's excellent customer service, I went from flat Blogger comments that were a hassle to simplified, threaded, personalized comments in Disqus, which integrate...
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