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Google loads up on IP again, buys 1,000 more patents from IBM — Engadget
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Draw – Google Correlate
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Hacking Google Analytics: Ideas, Tips and Tricks
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The Google + Social Network
So… let me see how Google’s new social network looks like.
Circles
The first thing I read and saw in the instruction video are the circles. You can drag people into circles. Which means that you can set up a sort of tags on people and make all kinds of relational groups.
This is pretty handy to make interest groups.
- The problem here is more or less how I will name my circles. E.g. I have 4 friends which I want to group because we often do activities together. But we never gave ourselves “a name”, so I have to think on some funny labels for some collections of contacts.
- Another problem is that I have not really organized my contacts well, so I have multiple time the same person here and I have a big @todo to merge contacts into one being
- Another thing I notice is that none of them carry an avatar. I assume I can add this somewhere to make it more graphical but I have not found out where
- When my amount of circles begin to grow I would like to color them in different colors and also group them in topics
I dragged some family to the circle “family” and noticed that each circle also has a stream:
In my family stream I can add pictures, movies, links and my location, I can also share my message via e-mail to this complete group. This is pretty nifty when using my phone and share some pictures with my family. Streams can also be added in tabs, so you can have access to them quickly.
One cool thing is that I can also activate my webcam and have live chat with my stream in a so called hangout.
Let me first complete my profile and create some circles now and drag some people in it to uncover more functionality, this seems pretty handy to use with a phone.
Art Project, powered by Google
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Chrome is slow due to Google SafeBrowsing
Google Chrome reacted VERY slow tonight while Firefox was speedy. So why?
I first thought it would be one of the extensions installed but after I checked with Fiddler I saw:
So apparently the Google Server to check for infected sites is a bit over its capacity. The strange thing is that I thought that Firefox also uses the same url to check for those bad sites. So that is a bit strange.
Anyhow, I disabled it in Chrome and the thing is running on speed again.
It is worthwhile to turn it on since it occasionally gives me warnings on sites that have been infected.
Google Ngram Viewer
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Google Ngram Viewer
IBM Google Microsoft between 1990 – 2008 mentionings on the Google Labs Books Ngram Viewer
Google Earth 6
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Google Earth 6
it keeps getting better and better
Windows Kills Chrome
All of a sudden Windows decided to kill my Chrome by deciding it should be in the DEP.
(and now each time this happens when I click “options” and press “save” in Chrome…)
(so.. Right click My computer, click properties, click the advanced tab, on the performance section click settings, click the Data Execution Prevention tab, make sure “Turn on DEP for essential Windows Programs and services only” is checked.)
(but I wonder why this happens so suddenly)
127 years PopSci Archives
I spend some time browsing through the 137 years of PopSci Archive.
And its amazing but somehow some diy articles from 1928 could be publised just as well on websites or magazines today.
Like… we are reading apparently already for over 80 years articles on "How to Take better Photos" (this article is from 1931) 
"if you look what do you see…your eyes and thus register on the cells in your brain"
p.s. If you want to have a wider screen, then just head over to Google Books.
Just some of the things I read:
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How many times have we, electronics users, thought the same thing.. shall I wait for the next big thing coming or shall I buy my new device today?
No difference between now and then, even the graphs seem the same although they are probably not created with Microsoft Excel. |
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It seems that in 1931 being Fascist was cool around New York, 9 years before the war.
Ingram’s shaving gel even make Il Duce the example of using their cool cool shaving gel. Really amazing how they looked at things before the big war unless of course this is some kind of humor that I don’t get. |
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Do you think that the battle between Science And Creationism is new in the U.S.A.? That Richard Dawkins says new things? Think again:
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Where I can read again that the Dutch do not recognize great inventions of the future: a plane with a machine gun, which made Fokker later an icon in the Netherlands (after the Germans bought it to fight "Roland Garros"-es).
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Pretty cool idea: an answering machine ("Robot answers phone and take message") (1931) |
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We now have internet bars where you can rent a computer for an hour, back then you could hire a typewriter by inserting a coin |
Body Browser – Google Labs
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Body Browser – Google Labs
google’s new bodybrowser
Essential gmail add-on: Rapportive
After a one-click install Rapportive shows social information about your contacts in the gmail sidebar. Easy. Handy & Useful.
I think I like this add-on!
How do I know I like this one?
Because I recently lost all my extensions in Chrome* and rapportive was one of the first I re-installed. That is always a good sign: there are a lot of “cool” things people write about in their blogs (I’m absolutely one of them) “everyone look at this” but in practice…. the key trademark of something essential : you reinstall it after a format /q!
So… what does it do and why should you install it?
Simple:
Rapportive shows you, instead of the ads, a little sidebar showing you just a little bit more information on the people that mail you and shows it in the sidebar. This includes:
- their avatar
- their latest tweets
- their linkedin profile
- their facebook account
- their flickr account
- their friendster account
- their youtube account
- their orkut account
- their delicious account
- their stumbleupon account
- their gravatar account
- their last.fm account
- ETC…
Simple. It does not do miracles. But what it does it does great. Why?
a) Because it is a simple one button installation
b) it does not require any activity or time from my side.
c) it save me time since I do not have to go to their profiles, twitters etc… (the more I mail with people the more times I will see their updated tweets etc…)
d) mail from people I don’t know is enriched by the sidebar so I can see their sites etc… really handy. It also works with companies e.g. webshops. It also acts as my “one click” subscribe to their twitter feed thing
e) it lets me adjust my profiles so I actually have some control over what other people see.
f) I can leave notes with people
g) something I have not blogged about but… mailchimp has recently added a social info tool to their portfolio, which means, if you have mailing lists, that you not only get those dull graphics on “how much did a person click on my link” but a whole wealth of social information on those persons. Rapportive somehow lets you see this activity in MailChimp (haven’t looked into this yet).
The one thing I don’t know is how Google likes it that their ads are uhm… “suppressed”.
When I read around the web this app is now booming, and by looking at the forum lots of people have lots of ideas how to enhance this thing, the top 10 things people want to have in it (and well… these requests look familiar) :
1) more control of your own profile and “claim” your other e-mail addresses
2) not only information shown from social networks but also from your own Google Contacts
3) “merge contacts” in Rapportive but also to Google Contacts
4) not only information shown from social network but also the ability to add your own info
5) more feeds than twitter: facebook, linkedin, etc… (popups requested…) / better facebook integration
6) also provide https for images from twitter and facebook…
7) see e-mail history also (I think they might need to add tabs in the sidebar…)
a button to report offenders / spammers
9) integrate with gmail tasks
10) technical improvements: use reply-to when sender fails
You get 10 votes which you can give to a suggestion (a maximum of 3 each) and I put my first 3 votes for point 9: it must be handy to leave todo’s with my contacts combined with an overview page of all the todo’s.
Teleport to a random place in the world
MapCrunch is a simple idea but kinda addictive. You just click "Go!" and you jump around the world via Google Street View. From a little street in Denmark to a ranch in Australia and from a street in Brasil to a field in Italy.
Galerij met thema’s voor Google Chrome
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Galerij met thema’s voor Google Chrome
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