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It Took 16 Months, But Google Relaunches Jotspot
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on February 27, 2008
Google acquired hosted wiki service Jotspot in October 2006. The service immediately stopped taking new users, although existing users were supported. Now, nearly sixteen months later, Jotspot has been relaunched under the Google Apps team, as Google Sites. Google Sites looks absolutely nothing like Jotspot, other than the fact that both are hosted wikis. All of the structured data templates...
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Google Analytics for Blogs
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on April 29, 2008
Two years ago, Google bought Measure Map, a very intuitive analytics software for blogs designed by Jeffrey Veen. Since then, Google Analytics suffered a redesign and included some interface elements from Measure Map. It seems that the transition is about to end soon as Google Analytics will integrate Measure Map's functionality: blog stats.Measure Map users received an email that instructed...
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Microsoft’s Acquisition Of Yahoo: Not As Bad As Some Think
via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on February 04, 2008
The Microsoft is evil meme is alive and well this week as many digest Microsoft’s $44.6 billion takeover offer for Yahoo. There’s Flickr users protesting, talk of Yahoo teaming up with Google to block Microsoft’s bid, and general Microsoft is bad sentiment everywhere, even from Google itself. While Microsoft acquiring Yahoo may not provide the ultimate in happy endings to many, it’s...
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Farecast Now Offers International Flight Price Predictions
via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on February 07, 2008
Seattle based Farecast, a service that predicts and guarantees airline prices, has expanded its reach outside of the United States, with international coverage in key markets.Farecast, which launched in May 2006, tries to predict flight price changes for consumers so they know whether to buy now or wait. In late 2006 they added guarantees, effectively allowing consumers to buy insurance policies...
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Refine by user ratings and neighborhoods
via Google LatLong by elaine on February 25, 2008
Posted by Constantinos Michael, Software Engineer Ever since I moved to the New York City Google office I've had an agenda: exploring the best the city has to offer like so many other New Yorkers do. Sometimes this can be an overwhelming experience, since the city has more than 18,000 food vendors according to nycvisit.com! Fortunately, finding the best places just became a lot easier...
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Lyrics for YouTube's Music Videos
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on February 28, 2008
If you want to see a music video, there's a good chance you'll find it on YouTube. The downside is that YouTube doesn't offer any music-related feature, so you can't find information about the artists, lyrics or concert dates.A simple Greasemonkey script adds one of these missing feature: lyrics. The script creates a container titled "Lyrics" below the video's description and...
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Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 09, 2008
Don’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites.MySpace launched Data Availability on Thursday, a competing product. Yesterday, in a...
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Update Your Profile From More Websites
via Facebook Blog by Peter X. Deng on May 22, 2008
A few weeks ago, we told you about the new ability to import stories into your Mini-Feed from other sites. Since then, we've been working on increasing the number of sites that work with this feature. We're happy to report that now, you can import activity from YouTube, StumbleUpon, Hulu, Pandora, Last.fm, and Google Reader in addition to Flickr, Picasa, Digg, Yelp and del.icio.us.Look...
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Some amazing TED talks recently
via Media 2.0 Workgroup by Ian Forrester on January 20, 2008
Don't get me wrong, TED talks are always great but just recently there have been some simply un-missable ones, here's my top three.Underwater astonishments: David Gallo on TED.com
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Keeping Time
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
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