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Explore Your Interactions with Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 17, 2008
Web applications track many user actions and use them for different purposes: improving the products, finding patterns, building user profiles etc. For example, Google Reader records some of your actions without providing options in the interface to access the data. Here are some addresses where you can find historical data about the items you've subscribed to (click on "View all items" to...
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Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
via Official Google Blog by Karen on February 03, 2008
Posted by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal OfficerThe openness of the Internet is what made Google -- and Yahoo! -- possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It's what makes the Internet such an exciting place.So Microsoft's hostile bid for...
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I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
Paul Buchheit on listening to users:I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sent it out to a few people for feedback, and they said that it was somewhat useful, but it would be better if it searched over their email instead of mine. That was version two. After I released that...
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Making Google Reader More Like Gmail
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on January 20, 2008
Google Reader could add a lot of features from Gmail that would improve the way it organizes information. A filtering mechanism would allow you to automatically star, share, email, label or mark as read the posts that match a certain pattern. For example, you could receive an email for each post that contains GDrive in the title or automatically label
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What you all are missing about Google
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on February 04, 2008
I’m surprised that even Kara Swisher has missed this. The bloggers are going nuts, once again, over the email that a Google lawyer sent to Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Yahoo.Here’s what’s really going on:1. Google doesn’t mind this deal going through at all. Google knows they will be able to outrun a “Microhoo.” Why do they know that? Because they’ve been...
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Writing a Book in Google Docs
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on January 23, 2008
Currently, my editor Brian Jepson and I are collaboratively writing the book (tentatively titled) Google Office Hacks by O'Reilly using Google Docs. I wanted to outline the process we came up with, and maybe it's helpful for you too for certain needs.The outlineThe base document we're working on is the outline. It's a linked table of contents which helps us to organize the broad...
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Scribd Launches New Platform and iPaper, a New Format for Web Docs
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 19, 2008
Scribd, the online document sharing site, announced today the creation of a new document format built for the web, dubbed iPaper. This web-based viewer lets you view documents in a browser using a Flash-based widget, with no need for software downloads. Also launched today is the Scribd platform, a set of tools that lets anyone use iPaper on their own internal web site.iPaperiPaper has been...
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Some Adobe AIR Apps Worth a Look
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 25, 2008
Adobe's AIR platform allows developers to create web applications that run on your desktop without the need of a web browser. Now that AIR has dropped the beta tag (see our previous coverage), it's time to look at some of the AIR apps you can use today. And if you want to know why we here at Read Write Web are so excited about AIR, read more of our analysis about the platform to get...
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Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents [Conversion]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on February 07, 2008
The Digital Inspiration blog offers up five email addresses that offer free file conversion for Word docs, PDFs, and even MP3s with no fuss, no muss—just attach a file, send it, and wait for the reply with the converted file attached. For mobile device users who can't read or open certain formats or desktop users who need a little audio formatting without downloading software. The full list...
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