Published on October 14, 2006
in Google.
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped managed to get a copy of a leaked internal Gdrive client (currently codenamed as Playtpus). It is currently being used only by the Googlers (Google employees) to store and share files, and there is currently no information whether the product will be made public.
Its help say,
We encourage you to keep all of your files with us, including your Office documents, photos, and personal notes, except for sensitive data (including electronic protected health information) and other files inconsistent with the internal user agreement.
Via Google Blogoscoped.
The big news of the day is … Google has released the much anticipated Google Calendar! Wow, Google has got online calendar, big deal, isn’t it? Yahoo and MSN has got one for ages, and what makes Google’s offering unique?
For one very obvious reason, Google lets you use iCal format to share your calendars. Woohoo… don’t worry, giving you the ability to share your calendars doesn’t mean you need to share them with the rest of the world! By default, all calendar events are private unless you want to make them public.
Now let’s make one of your calendars public so that we can access it via Sunbird. The Sunbird Project is Mozilla’s (the company behind the popular Firefox web browser) approach to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla’s XUL user interface language. It’s free and currently in alpha stage. Nevertheless, you can still use it to access your Google Calendar.
And below is the howto.
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A new feature introduced by Google in its version 3 of Google Desktop is the “search across compters” feature. This feature is useful if you use more than a computer, as it stores your documents centrally in Google’s servers, enabling you to access your files on all your computers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has however advised you not to turn on the feature. From their website:
Google today announced a new “feature” of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new “Search Across Computers” feature will store copies of the user’s Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google’s own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user’s computers. EFF urges consumers not to use this feature, because it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who’ve obtained a user’s Google password.
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Google has announced the new version of its Google Desktop software. The new version 3 now lets you search files across all your computers. This new features will store your documents on Goolge’s own servers, and is only useful if you use more than one computer.
The new Google Desktop also lets you share things you find interesting in the Sidebar by right clicking on the items to send to your contacts.
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Published on January 28, 2006
in Google.
If you live outside of China, you probably don’t have access to the much controversial google.cn because Google redirects you to the mirror site of your country for faster access and options to display only local contents. To test google.cn out, use this address:
http://www.google.cn/intl/zh-CN/.
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Following Google’s decision to “omit Web content that the government of the People’s Republic of China finds objectionable’, several websites have removed Google Adsense, the contextual advertising program by Google in protest.
Blogger News Network, one of the websites that acted almost immediately after Google’s announcement has posted the following in their blog:
In response to the decision of Google to gain access to the Chinese market by censoring its search content, Blogger News Network has reached the difficult decision to discontinue running Google’s ads on our service. As a news organization with aspirations to earning public trust, BNN must act ethically in its financial dealings. Accepting money from a company which is putting profit above its ethical obligations to stakeholders would represent a lapse in that ethical stance.
Baseball musings is another website that has their Adsense removed.
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Published on January 24, 2006
in Google.
Google News has officially been taken out of Beta. The announcement was made via their official blog:
We’re taking Google News out of beta! When we launched the English-language edition in September 2002, we entered untested waters with a grand experiment in news browsing - using computers to organize the world’s news in real time and providing a bird’s eye view of what’s being reported on virtually any topic. By presenting news “clusters” (related articles in a group), we thought it would encourage readers to get a broader perspective by digging deeper into the news — reading ten articles instead of one, perhaps — and then gain a better understanding of the issues, which could ultimately benefit society. A bit more than three years later, we offer 22 regional editions in 10 languages, and have a better sense of how people use Google News.
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Google has finally released the Mac version of Google Earth, which was
previously leaked to the Internet.
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Love the free Google software but hate to download them individually? Google has recently launched Google Pack that packs “a free collection of essential software” into a package that installs and updates the software with a single common interface.
So far Google has added Google Earth, Picasa, Google Pack Screensaver, Google Desktop, Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar, Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition, Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal and Adobe Reader.
I see more of Google invasion into the desktop.
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Get it while it’s hot! It’s the time of the year and Google has released the 2005 edition of Zeitgeist, which reflect tidbits of information related to the search behavior of Google users.
Continue reading ‘2005 Year-End Google Zeitgeist’
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