New Media + IT

According to CNET News DigitalGlobe is launching a new satellite that will provide better images for Google's Google Earth software.
Nice — can't wait! :-)

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[ categorized as: Google ]

I have a Hotmail account that I don't use a lot, since I'm hopelessly in love with Gmail, among other things because of the magnificent search.
Nevertheless, I just got a mail from Hotmail telling me, that my account has been upgraded.
Among other things, my account is now an impressing 5 gigabytes — a bit more [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Google, Microsoft ]

At work I'm working on a Google Map (using Google APIs), but now all of a sudden, all of the placemarks were gone.
I simply couldn't find any reason as to how that could have happened, although I realized that it was the KML file that contained error(s).
I remembered that I installed the new version of [...]

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[ categorized as: Google ]

I read about it somewhere a long time ago and used it for some time but then forgot about it again.
But just now I remembered it, and thought it was worth to be shared :-)
The search engine Searchmash.com is Google's online playground when it comes to search. It has a lot of AJAX (live page [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search, Tips ]

According to Google blogoscoped Google is testing the new "view as slideshow" feature in Gmail, that allows you to view the slideshow online and flip through the slides one by one.
To check it quickly found an e-mail with a slideshow attatched (just search for "filename:ppt" in Gmail) and I have the feature as well.
Now we [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Online applications ]

Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine later this year that will restrict adult-themed searches to those 19 years of age and older, it said Thursday.
More at Infoworld: "Google Korea to censor search results"

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[ categorized as: Censorship, Google, Search ]

Okay, yet another Google post :)
At LifeHacker I read a post on an experimental Google search that let's you navigate through the search results Gmail style.
Check it out :D

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

I read about it yesterday at the Google Blog, the universal search that is suppose to make it easier to search for the same query across the web, news, images, blogs, music and videos.
However you don't get the same options at every search, for instance a search for "Ungdomshuset" (the "Youth house" here in Denmark [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

Derek at UneasySilence has a post that Google has allowed selected Gmail accounts to view attached Powerpoint slides via a Flash tool.
Sounds great. I still can't wait for the "open as Google Document" feature ;-)

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[ categorized as: Google ]

Now Danish schools are starting to block access to Danish social site Arto (article in Danish) — which reminds me of an article on the same subject, except that it's about MySpace instead of Arto.
At O'Reilly Network there's a post titled "Using Google to View MySpace or Any Restricted Site" that shows you how to [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Internet ]