Tag Archive for 'google'

Spotted Today – Links for September 4th through September 30th

Dropbox Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch [Downloads] – Dropbox comes to iPhone… Finally! Yay with offline browsing too!
Google’s Monopoly: The Board Game, Not Antitrust – Take over the world with Google – this does sound like fun.
Keeping Google out of libraries – Google is threatening freedom… my feelings on Google have gone from [...]

New Facebook Revolution

What went wrong with Facebook? It grew rapidly as a popular site with fun features and cute little widgets that everyone seemed to like1. I, for one, advocated it to as many folks as I could find just short of becoming a Friend Whore2. With the redesign of Facebook (which incidentally, I do actually like), [...]

Sociable Face Recognition

Here is a scary and cool thought depending on how you look at it – sociable face recognition. Imagine taking a photo of someone on your mobile phone and then some nifty bit of software was able to link it up to the right person on a sociable site like Facebook.
The technology is there and [...]

Lacklustre Google Chrome

I tried Google Chrome this week and was distinctly unimpressed. Firstly, I wasn’t too impressed that there wasn’t a version for the Mac but then perhaps Google didn’t think it’s browser was ready for an audience already satisfied with its access to the web through Safari or Firefox. It definitely smacks of going after Internet [...]

Buyer Be Wary of Terms and Conditions

Certain individuals keen on pointing out the evils of Facebook have pointed me in the direction of their Terms and Conditions of usage. My friend in the UK apparently got banned for advocating out against the service and only after much grovelling, got back into the service (evidently, there was a value to the service). [...]