Inside View

Google Earth Missing Manual

YOU NEED TO KNOW that if you're backpacking across Ireland with either Google Earth or Flickr's maps as your guide that neither of those sources provide accurate GIS data. They're both fine for relative information such as point-to-point...

Reorienting Google Maps

KILKENNY -- As expected, Google Maps do not align with the Irish Grid so that means anything geoblogged from a proper GPS receiver will fall around 10 minutes off in both the latitude and longitude when plotted on Google Maps. I'm playin...

Gooku

JAIKU IS JOINING GOOGLE. That's what Jyri Engeström says. He writes that they "look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you'll find interesting and useful. Our engineers ar...

Your Data from Cradle to Grave

YOU COULD KEEP rudimentary services running online with Google providing your word processor (Writely), spreadsheet, email, and calendar. Alll you need is an inexpensive PC equipped with Firefox and a decent broadband connection. That d...

There Is Another Twitter Channel

Bernie Goldbach reading the Indo | Photo from my iTouch SEVERAL TOP-FLIGHT presenters, athletes, musicians and other celebrities have been targeted by snarky, rude, and often downright threatening behavior on Twitter. When this happens,...

Personalised Google Maps

GOOGLE -- Develop your own location-based Google maps. The Google Maps API lets developers embed Google Maps in their own web pages with JavaScript. You can add overlays to the map (including markers and polylines) and display shadowed "...

Google's Secret Sauce

DUBLIN -- As Google comes to market, analysts openly speculate how to crawl and index the Internet better and less expensively. Zenark have long speculated how to configure electronic robots to crawl more efficiently than the Google bot....

Reach of the Google Desktop

CLONMEL -- The Google Desktop is saving webforms. While that's helpful when finding blog posts, it's a little unnerving seeing my credit card saved in cache. And if my Google Desktop is part of a public network, I have a public credit ca...

Visiting America with Google as my guide

DUBLIN -- This blog is on autopilot while I visit America--all material is pre-recorded for release after embargoed times. My traveling advisor berates me for blogging the world with the fact that we're away with the house empty but are ...

Being Social is More than Managing Pipes

LEO LAPORTE, a voice I respect, has turned against Google Buzz. In a tweet heard around the world, Leo said, "I have had an epiphany due to this Buzz thing. Social media isn't content. It's narcissistic crap. No one cares. I've been wast...