Posts Tagged ‘google’

First impression of Google Wave

Just started trying out Google Wave (thanks for the invite Nims!), Google’s new real-time communication tool for the web, and realized that it’s not all that cool unless you know other people that also use it! Google Wave is like a combination chat room/file share/event coordinator, but unless you have people to communicate with, there’s [...]

Easy websites with Google Sites?

I guess with the demise of GeoCities, one of the first free website hosting services, Google has stepped in to fill the void somewhat. They now offer Google Sites (not sure how long they’ve had it available, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it), which allows you to put up a basic, free website. [...]

Shared blog posts from the past week

Starting this week, I’ll try to put up a post featuring all of the blog posts I’ve linked to over the past week or so, just in case you didn’t get a chance to see them on my fancy new Google Reader widget (see the right side of the blog!) $20 million for Mystic drawbridge [...]

New Google Reader widget on the site

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve done a few minor changes to the site, including the addition of awidget that displays the five most recent blog posts I’ve shared via Google Reader. The widget replaces the Lala.com Music Forecast widget that used to be there, which I’ve now moved to a new Entertainment page. Let [...]

Google presents GMail Autopilot

Ever think to yourself that responding to all your e-mails takes waaayyyy to long? Well Google has developed a new feature that can auto-respond to your e-mails. It searches through your old e-mails to analyze your writing style, then forms auto-responses to incoming e-mails so that you don’t have to be bothered with such a [...]