New Media + IT

As a Gmail user who uses Gmail a lot, I also use a Firefox extension entitled "Better Gmail".
But as Google has started upgrading all Gmail accounts to a new and improved Gmail a new version of the Better Gmail extension is needed.
The aptly named "Better Gmail 2" is available at the Lifehacker site.
The new Better [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Google ]

It's election time here in Denmark, so regretfully I don't have as much time to blog as I would have liked to have. Anyhow, here are two awesome things that I came across today and want to share with you:
Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka”
Apparently some sort of API's that will be Googles answer to Facebook's [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Online applications, Software, Web applications ]

This is good fun. Take a look at what Google might have looked like in the year 1407.
My favorite has to be the the "Google Earth Flat" link :-)
So, when will we see a 1407'izer, that can take ordinary web pages and 1407'ify them?

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

Today when I logged into Gmail, I noticed that I had some more space available than usually:
You are currently using 639 MB (21%) of your 3044 MB.
A quick look at the official Gmail blog and yes:
That said, a few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Google ]

Google itself has now officially announced that it has bought Jaiku.
Interesting thing though.. when you look at the blog entry in the blog and in the feed, you'll see a difference:
From the blog:
[...] We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Jaiku to make compelling and useful products. [...]
From the feed:
[...] We plan [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Internet, Mobile ]

Apparently Google has bought microblogging service Jaiku, the Jaiku team writes:
Exciting news: Google has bought Jaiku today.
What does that mean? First and foremost, we’re of course continuing to support our existing users. So fear not: your Jaiku phone, the Web site, IM, SMS, and API will continue to work normally.
The acquisition means that Jaiku has [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Internet, Mobile, News ]

On my daily surf I suddenly came across a "search your browsing history" link at Google.
That link took me to google.com/history. Since this is the first time I'm hearing of this, I can only tell you what is written on that page:
View and manage your web activity.
You know that great web site you saw online [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Internet, Search ]

BBC News reports that The British Library in cooperation with Microsoft, is preparing some 100.000 old books to go online.
The books are 19th century books which belong in the public domain — to avoid copyright infringements.
Google is also working in the digitizing of books department, but with other libraries: Stanford, Harvard, and Michigan university libraries, [...]

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[ categorized as: Books, Google, Microsoft ]

Phil Bradley shows people how to search the MI5 website, although the MI5 search is currently not working.
Needless to say, he uses Google ;-)
PS: If the MI5 website uses a robots.txt to avoid the search robots crawling the web, I don't assume that the above tip will work…

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[ categorized as: Google, Search, Tips ]

Duncan Riley at TechCrunch writes that "Google Wants You To Share Stuff".
The method: Google's new service for sharing your favorite content: Shared Stuff.
I haven't really had the time to test it yet (I dragged the Shared Stuff icon to my browser bar — but the pop up window doesn't always load correctly) so give it [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Online applications, Search ]