Archive for 'Google'

Google Checkout User Statistics

Many of us know and love Google Trends as the great tool for collecting information on keywords being used in Google searches throughout the world. But very few people know that the service is sometimes also available to other Google services besides search.
One of the services to receive the Google Trends treatment in the past [...]

Gmail Integrates with AIM

 
The other day on the Gmail and Google blog it was announced that the planned Gmail chat and AIM integration we have all been waiting for is finally here.
We can now finally talk to both our Gtalk friends and AIM friends by signing on to both networks right from one site and one browser window.
Enabling [...]

Google Talk Integrates with AOL’s AIM

It seems as if Google Talk will finally be integrated with AOL’s AIM client.
This upgrade to Google Talk and AIM couldn’t have happened any later!
It has been two years since Google bought 5% of AOL and announced, amongst other things, that the integration of the two clients would occur as long as certain conditions were [...]

Google Phone…Asking why.

I was just reading this line from CNET’s article a few weeks ago about Google’s Marissa Mayer talking about iPhones and Google applications. To date I hadn’t read anything about these kind of numbers (football season might be taking away from all that new media reading), so they struck me as very interesting:
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Facebook Gets Searchable

From Mashable, among others, we find that Facebook will soon be listing profiles in search engined like Google, MSN and Yahoo. So if you have a Facebook profile and you have not set it to private, I can “Google” you and find your Facebook page.
To be more accurate, the full profiles will not return [...]

Back to School- Web 2.0 Style

That time is once again among us. The time when parents rejoice and children cringe: Back to School!
I’ve compiled a list of Web 2.0 websites sure to help you with any school related matters! So whether you’re going to college for your first year or returning yet again, this list is sure to help you [...]

Google Video Downloads…They Tried, Failed, Tried, Messed Up and now Try Again

In case you missed it, Google officially ended its DTO/DTR (download to own, download to rent) video service last week. Google let folks who had previously purchased a video know (like me!) that:
…we will no longer offer the ability to buy or rent videos for download from Google Video, ending the DTO/DTR (download-to-own/rent) program. This [...]

Gmail Just Got Better!

But not just Gmail! Picasa Web Albums and all of Google’s services are getting get a lot better!
Why? Well today Google announced on its blog that it will begin offering fee-based “additional storage plans” for all of its services- first starting with Gmail and Picasa Web Albums and later adding the plans to other [...]

YouTube Copyright Filtering by September

A Google lawyer announced on Friday that they will apply video fingerprinting technology to YouTube by September.
This comes as great news to countless of video content producers, that are now seeing their copyright videos on YouTube without their permission.
The video screening technology will consist of a computer system which will automatically scan all videos uploaded [...]

Feedburner is now completely free…Thanks, Google. Now, where’s my ad?

Google made a splash not too long ago with its purchase of FeedBurner. For those who don’t know, FeedBurner is an online tool that helps people who create feeds (bloggers, podcasters) manage, disseminate and track their feeds. If you have a blog, for example, FeedBurner, helps you see traffic and subscribers for it, make it [...]