Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Google REALLY cares about your information and security
In: Online
25 Feb 2010I just want to let this quote sink in. This is from one of Google’s engineers talking about their email system Gmail "Gmail was a beta app for a while in itself and that kind of let us as a company not be too afraid about getting something out that may screw up once in [...]
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Adventures in Installing Google’s Chrome OS
In: Technology
19 Nov 2009I am going to try something new. I have some Buckethead music glaring, a whole season of My Name is Earl just came in on DVD, and I have some spare cycles to burn. What does that mean for you? It means I am going to go through these instructions and try to install Chrome [...]
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- Tags: Chrome OS, Google, Linux, Ubuntu
How Google Ruined Beta Software
In: Technology
29 Oct 2009There was a time when I cold called software companies asking to try beta software. To date these events, the ones that accepted usually sent me their software on 3.5” floppy disks. It’s been quite awhile. The internet made getting beta software a lot easier, downloading it is quick and painless, but it also came [...]
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Time for the US Government to confront the European Union
In: All News
31 May 2009Yet another article today. The EU is saying that it’s going to take another approach. Instead of fines, or forcing Microsoft to ship without Internet Explorer, they are going to try to force Microsoft to include other browsers in Windows. This means that most likely Firefox and Opera would ship inside Windows. The EU is [...]
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- Tags: European Union, Firefox, Google, Microsoft
No Google, the Browser is NOT the Computer
In: Online|Technology
27 May 2009Google wants you to forget about Windows, Mac OS X And Linux. The latest ploy is to use HTML 5 to gather support for putting all of our personal computers on a serious diet. I don’t mean the type of diet that gave us iPhones and net books, the kind that gives us strings, entanglements [...]
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Paul Boutin And PC World Don’t Get The Internet
In: Online|Technology
17 May 2009The title of the article that proves my point? “Is Google’s Chrome the New Internet Explorer?” The gist of the article? Microsoft thinks that bundling Chrome in Windows will give Google a search monopoly because of it’s speed and security. The Battle for the Box Let’s make one thing absolutely clear. Microsoft’s concern with the [...]
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- Tags: European Union, Google, Microsoft
So I decided to do a completely unbiased set of blogs on Google Search vs. Microsoft Live Search. It should be know that although I work for Microsoft, I pretty much use Google Search exclusively. Thinking about that today, I wondered why. This set of blogs is an attempt to answer that question, help me [...]
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- Tags: Google, Live Search, Microsoft
Google announces Sites – Google SharePoint?
In: Technology
29 Feb 2008I would have to say that Microsoft SharePoint could be considered the foundation of the product I work on at Microsoft, PerformancePoint Server 2007. That being the case, I try to keep myself very aware of what’s going on in that space. Last night I got an email from Google advertising a new service that [...]
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- Tags: Google, Microsoft, Sharepoint
Filed Under: Six of one, half dozen of the other…
In: Random
7 Feb 2008I have been looking at the "Microsoft, keep your grubby hands off of Flickr" pool and in reading some of the comments and tone of the images, it’s clear the users want Google to come in and buy Yahoo to save Flickr. The question I have is: Isn’t Google as likely to convert Flickr to [...]
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Wow Google, Say it ain’t so…
In: Online
3 Feb 2008For real guys, I know I work for Microsoft and all, but 6 months ago I would have had the same response, what a load… Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft [...]
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- Tags: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo
I have almost written this post so many times. I was hesitant for several reasons. The first being I didn’t want to insult anyone in the gay or lesbian community. The second is I didn’t want to talk bad about Google Adsense since they pay me. Here is the rub. For the thousandth time I [...]
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- Tags: Adsense, Blogging, Google
iPhoto changes your photo management
In: Photography
28 Nov 2007I love taking photos. If you haven’t checked out my flickr stream, you will see I take lots of photos. One of my major weakness has always been losing my photos! I would always take hundreds of photos, like a couple, clean them up, resize them, put them online or something, then forget about the [...]
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- Tags: Apple, Google, iLife, Mac
Vanity Search: A Question of Personal Branding
In: Random
19 Nov 2007Search engine algorithms are top secret. I would be willing to bet that only a very select few really understand how they work within their own companies. I have been fighting the good fight and have had incredible results with search engine optimization on Philoking.com, but only recently have I discovered a serious flaw in [...]
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- Tags: Blog, Branding, Google, SEO
Making Your Own Google: Google Apps
In: Random
17 Nov 2007Want simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools for your organization without the usual hassle and cost? Ok, I stole that. That’s the pitch from Google. I was curious so this week I did some investigating. I host my own email. While I liked the web email client I was using, it wasn’t quite as good [...]
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- Tags: Gmail, Google, Gtalk
Impressions of Android: Browsing the web vs. iPhone
In: Technology
13 Nov 2007Let me start by clarifying that this is all in the SDK emulator, so it’s clunky anyway, but I thought I would take a minute to do a comparison for those of you thinking that Google’s new OS might be as revolutionary as the iPhone OS. In principle, it IS that revolutionary, because it’s open [...]
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- Tags: Android, Google
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