Tag: google

  • WordPress 2.3 upgrade breaks RSS feed

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    Tom Raftery
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    Sean McNamara alerted me via the comments on this blog that my RSS feed was broken (thanks a million Sean). I sorted that out this morning so it should be good again and Google Reader is certainly having no problem seeing my posts now. So what happened? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure (!)…

  • Google Facebook offline?

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    Facebook apps are the hot thing at the minute. Everyone who has any kind of a Web 2.0 site has either created one or is in the process of. When I saw this morning that Google were after creating a Facebook app, I was quite curious. According to the article: Google made a lovely app…

  • Mac version of Google Earth now showing Manhattan in space?

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    Google upgraded their amazing Google Earth application overnight to now include the objects in the night sky as well (Google Earth & Sky!). The Sky part of the application holds a host of information about stars, planets and constellations. I’m a little confused though as to how Manhattan island appears to have been re-positioned near…

  • Google Reader saved my life!

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    Well, that might be exaggerating it slightly 😉 Still, I was away recently on holidays for three weeks and I didn’t bring my laptop with me. I was offline. Cut off from the infostream for the first time in months. Then one evening, while walking my son Enrique around the local plaza, I noticed there…

  • Foxmarks to launch next great search engine?

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    Google had a great idea. Order your search results based on the number of times a site is linked to. Brilliant! A link to a site is counted as a vote of confidence in the site’s quality/veracity. And it works because people generally only link to interesting sites. Foxmarks is a nifty little Firefox plugin…

  • Google launches phishing blacklist api

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see on the Google Security Blog that Google have launched a Safe Browsing api.  In other words, Google are making available its dynamic blacklist of phishing and malware sites so ISPs and web app coders can check against it. This should help ensure unwitting users are notified before they browse to to unsafe sites…

  • Technorati resurrects the Marquee tag…

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    Tom Raftery
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    Technorati have overhauled their site completely. Some of the changes are great and some we could do without, frankly! The best change is that they have drastically sped up the site. I dunno did they add more servers or simply optimise their queries (I suspect the latter) but the site and particularly searches are now…

  • Ad supported Office in the works?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see Microsoft are following Google into the Advertising business with their announced purchase of aQuantive for $6bn. Advertising definitely seems to be where the money is at right now – as Michael Arrington put it earlier on TechCrunch: Google bought Doubleclick for $3.1 billion in April. Later that same month, Yahoo acquired competitor RightMedia…