Inside View

Sharing Newsy Information

GOOGLE WOULD LIKE to think that people click the share function on Google Reader as one of the pre-eminent ways of passing along the news. People using microblogs like Jaiku, Twitter and Pownce think that pointing to links is the way inf...

Google rewrites web content

IRISH EXAMINER -- On the day Yahoo announced its European headquarters would be in Dublin, Google released a new beta of its toolbar. The resultant firestorm might cause Google to neuter parts of the toolbar because it can actually rewr...

Google Names a Product after my Grandfather

BUZZ GOLDBACH DIED 27 years ago next month so it's nice to see that Google has named its latest product (Google Buzz) after him. I've seen functional parts of this Gmail-integrated social networking utility already because I've used Goog...

Google Map Hacks

OREILLY -- The Where 2.0 Conference includes announcements of several clever Google map hacks, many already tagged as del.icio.us/tag/maps. Here are a few:

Google Values Me at $948

AS NEWS OF GOOGLE'S acquisition of Feedburner continues percolating, some numbers jump out of the binding term sheet. Google's $100m valuation of Feedburner puts value on each of Feedburner's feeds. Feedburner has 22,717 publishers. Tha...

Google Buys Viral

THE MOST COMPELLING pieces of information I have received this year have come in the form of viral videos sent by trusted friends for viewing. All of them required more than two minutes to view--not because they were that long but often ...

Live Google Calendar

calendar.google.com is live and it offers a tour which shows some sweet integration of slick, stable components. If you already run a calendar like 30 Boxes or if you work in a group calendar environment, you might not see the big differ...

Living Where Object Maps Would Help

I LIVE IN A semi-rural area in Ireland (evidence at left) where nobody knows the numerical designations of most of the roads. This seasoned ignorance becomes apparent when American visitors ring up for instructions, politely mentioning t...

Purging Cache on Google

DURING THE PAST MONTH, I have asked Google to purge specific items from its cache. This is something that you may need to do too, if a Googlebot gets inside your firewall and leaves with stuff it should never have found. Google deletes p...

Google Docs Cleaner Loading

MY WRITELY space morphed into Google Docs overnight. We use Writely on four modules at Tipperary Institute and many students wonder why they would ever need to load Word or Excel onto their laptops when they can do all the work online.