Google Buys Jaiku!
If you’re interested in microblogging ala Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, you might be interested to know that Google purchased Jaiku today. Besides making all the Jaiku employees dance around in celebration of their upcoming stock options, this could mean something big. Other smart folks are talking about it too:
BlogShmog
Guardian
Reuters
Mashable
Read/Write Web
OReilly
This could mean some serious improvements in [...]
Fmail: Gmail in Facebook… You will be assimilated into Facebook. Resistance is Useless!
Yep! The social network which is fast becoming all things to all people has assimilated and absorbed another part of your life. You can now check your gmail from inside Facebook with a new app called Fmail. Now you need never leave Facebook! Evaaar!!!
Finding Images for your Blog
Pictures make blogs more fun to read. Sometimes when I write an entry I want a pic but I don’t have anything of my own so I start Google searching for an image I can use (and attribute to its source, of course). We can talk about the propriety of using other’s images some [...]
Eager Noggin! Will Google Release Wiki App Today?
I’m a huge fan of Google apps. I’ve pushed the internal links in a Google doc to their limits trying to make something wiki-like to share with coworkers and collaborators so I’m really excited that Google might be announcing the release of wikis on Google apps.
Google acquired Jotspot a while back so let’s keep our [...]
Gmail video: Participation Rawks!
The folks at Google are smart. They understand the sometimes difficult to imagine way that participatory media can actually create business. Take, for example, their latest campaign: Gmail Behind the Scenes Video. It’s simple. Record a 10 second video of the same envelope passing from one side of the screen to another. That’s it. The [...]