Posted on Jul 13 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Google, social networking, Technology
Got my Google+ invite today. I think it’s going to be the first social service from Google that I will actually use besides eMail. Google+ has several features you’d expect from a social software like streams, photo/video/link sharing and group chat.
One awesome feature that I like about Google+ is called Circles. I think that it’s the closest representation to human social interaction. If you’ve used JoinDiaspora, it’s similar to its Aspect feature. All the social networking software that i’ve used so far, except Google+ and JoinDiaspora, does not allow multiple channel relationships which I believe is an essential ingredient to a good social software. Not even Facebook has it — yes you can classify people into lists but that’s just about what you can do.
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twitter is slowly eating up the ecosystem that created twitter - twitter clients, short urls, now photos, what's next?
5:45 pmJune9,2011(344 days ago)
Posted on Jun 2 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Firefox add-on, Mozilla, social, Twitter, Technology
Twitter has worked together with Mozilla to create the official Twitter Address Bar Search add-on for Firefox. Today, Twitter is announcing the add-on which enables users to have a better tool for searching Twitter.
Upon installation of the Twitter Address Bar Search add-on, you can start searching Twitter for #hashtags and @usernames right on the Firefox Address Bar aka Firefox Awesome Bar. Searching will take you straight to the search results page on Twitter.
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Posted on Jun 2 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Google, web apps, Technology
In continuing Google’s support for HTML5, it has decided to stop support for older versions of Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari when using it’s web based suite of Google Apps. The older web browsers lack full support of HTML 5 to implement better user experience features like drag & drop, desktop notifications.
To be able to add features that enhance the user experience Google will drop support for the older browser versions (Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, Safari 3 and older) starting August 1.
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Posted on May 23 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Facebook, security, Technology
Facebook has added an additional feature to increase the security of user logins by introducing what they call “Login Approvals“.
So how does Login Approvals work? First of all the authentication system is opt-in, meaning you have to enable it to be able to use it. You can enable Login Approvals from the Account Security section of the Account Settings page.
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Opera 11.11 for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux is now available for download - http://www.opera.com/browser/download/
2:13 pmMay19,2011(365 days ago)
Posted on May 19 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Google, Search, Technology
You would think that since Google has one core technology that they have really dominated that there would be a blog somewhere in Google to talk about it.
They have an official Google Blog where they sort of publish important announcements on what’s happening within Google. There’s a blog for webmasters, one for Android developers, then there’s one for Gmail …
Now they have an Official Google Search blog called Inside Search.
I hope MS doesn't do the #DangerDance on the Skype purchase -- they had the android team in their court and lost it to Google
6:17 pmMay16,2011(368 days ago)
Posted on Jul 21 2010 by iGerry Filed under: clean technology, Google, green technology, greenhouse gases, Technology
One thing I love about Google is the way it supports the use of clean and green technology especially in the area of power generation. Google is already using solar energy to power its data centers. Today, Google has just announced another milestone by signing a 20-year agreement to use wind power.
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Posted on Jan 5 2010 by iGerry Filed under: 3D, Avatar, computer animation, movies, Technology
I have never been a believer of measuring the greatness of a movie in terms of gross box office sales. One billion US dollars in gross box office ticket sales in 2009 has an entirely different meaning compared to a decade back. For instance, “Gone with the Wind”, a movie shown in 1939 grossed 390 million dollars. Do you know how much that’s worth in 1939? Titanic, another James Cameroon movie, grossed 1.8 billion USD a decade back when ticket prices cost 4.59 USD.
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