Dear Google Thanks. Thanks for Google Search. Thanks for Google Maps. Thanks for Gmail. Thanks for YouTube. Thanks for Google Calendar. Thanks for Google Chrome. I use these services every day and they are awesome. I am almost 30 and remember when web-based email was a joke. I remember when we didn’t need thumbnails for [...]
Mat Honan: Google may have to get us to use Google+ if it wants to remain relevant. But it should be able to go about that in a fundamentally honest fashion. If it can’t keep its promises, if it can’t avoid resorting to trickery, if it can’t keep itself from subverting the power of its [...]
Good web software has a lot of upsides: speed, compatibility, network awareness and seemless updates. Those seemless updates have a downside, though. I use Google Maps three or four times a week. I also live in Japan. Until Saturday, when viewing Google Maps in English, the application displayed placed names in both kanji and romaji. [...]
Google has rolled out another update to their search engine results which changes the look of the thumbnail previews (see here). Unfortunately, they’ve also listened to the guy who’s the top hit on these results. Prior to today, if you hit the down arrow on a search results page you would activate a caret on [...]
I use Google services every day. Most of them lack any sort of paid option, so I cannot say I am a loyal customer but I am a loyal information-giver-so-Google-can-better-target-ads-at-me…er. I even click on those ads! And I don’t complain! (I have no in-principle problem with a service being subsidised with advertising.) But today I’m [...]
This is what Google + feels like, a competitor to social networks of last year, not now. I like Brooks but it’s because I like him that I feel a need to call him out (see all my posts referencing Gruber). Brooks says he’s not using Google+ at the top of the piece and then [...]
Is there a tablet market or an iPad market? Will the iPad be the iPod or the iPhone of the tablet world? These are the questions that keep tech pundits up at night (or at least me, it’s 3.30 in the morning and I can’t sleep). In order to answer these questions it seems to [...]
I’d usually avoid Techcrunch but this is a great piece from guest columnist Rocky Agrawal on what’s wrong with daily deal offers. One of the many excellent observations: Some of the advice is just awful. On Google Offers’ “Best Practices for the big day” page for businesses it says: No photos, please! Er — actually, [...]
I actually consider myself an Apple Fanboy but the reaction from some Apple fans to the implications of the iPhone recording location data shits me. Ben Brooks: You really have nothing to complain about if you regularly check-in on social services or geo-locate your tweets. You do have something to complain about regardless of whether [...]