blog archive for the 'google' tag

gmail feedback

I love Gmail. I tell everyone on a different webmail to switch. I have personally been responsible for at least 25 conversions. I also use Gmail to its fullest, taking advantage of all the tagging and rules-based filters. I love the threaded message sorting, folderless organization, and auto contacts. But, like anything, it could use […]


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google maps adds dubai details

Very, very exciting news for those of us in Dubai. It looks like Google got a huge refresh of satellite images of Dubai in their latest map update. This means you can now zoom down almost to the lowest level, actually one tick before it, and see nearly every important building and landmark in this […]


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Jerryl Canon Rock. And the ‘Best of Google Video’

‘Jerryl Canon Rock’ is what this video is called. It’s on the Best of Google Video list linked from Totally Crap to a site that is run by I have no idea who. There’s no title, name, nothing. So whoever is responsible for that list, thanks. You’re awesome.
So basically, I thought […]


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google video adds sweet download support

Google has been adding great features and releasing new products steadily for 6 months now with no sign of letting up. i have been meaning to write a long post outlining them all. For now, I will just say that not only did Google add pay-for content from CBS and NBA, and others, they added […]


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y.ah.oo

Yahoo! finally bought del.icio.us! I KNEW this was coming. I just wasn’t sure if it would be Yahoo! or Google to do it. Yahoo! is making a ton of great buys/hires lately, Flickr.com, Upcoming.org, Tom Coates (plasticbag.org), AJAX and RSS in webmail, new Maps, and now del.icio.us.
With a market cap worth roughly half that […]


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Yahoo! Maps Beta

Yahoo! is playing catchup with Google as usual, and as usual, nothing is better than competition for the customer. The battle of Web 2.0 between Google and Yahoo! is churning out interesting product after interesting product, and I would run to go work for either of these companies without a second thought. In any case, […]


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mologogo

Time for another good idea. Mologogo. A good friend of mine put a little application that combines GPS or faux-GPS coordinate data sent from any location sensitive cellphone to a Google Map. That means if you have basically any Nextel phone with Java and GPS built in, you can download a little pice of software […]


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2 + 2 = GMail

I LOVE GMail and use it as my ONLY email client now, except for work email where I am forced to use Outlook. I forward all my email from my old Yahoo account and my domain accounts ([at]chrisdiclerico.com) directly to GMail. I love some of the unique features, like conversation organization, fast searching, and labels […]


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