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Facebook Places and Geosocial Land Grab

August 19, 2010

This isn’t about Facebook places, it’s about the goldmine of aggregating GeoSocial data. Facebook fires an impressive shot… can Google answer?

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Live Blogging with Google Wave

July 13, 2010

I’ve been live blogging conferences for a few years and I can say it is extremely rewarding and frustrating. The appreciation generated by your effort of sharing information from a live event is fantastic because a good conference live blog is useful to everyone, from conference organizers and participants to interested people elsewhere in the [...]

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First impressions of Google Buzz

February 10, 2010

There’s been plenty written already about buzz but a friend inquired as to what I thought about Buzz so after using it this morning here’s my take on Google Buzz. Overall, I’m excited. Tons of potential and I’m digging it. What is Google Buzz. Google Buzz is a platform that invites you to share status [...]

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Let Me Google that for You

February 4, 2009

I enjoy helping people I really do but sometimes…. Do you ever get questions that make you wonder if the asker has every heard of Google? Ever been tempted to answer an inane email inquiry with the Google results page? If so allow me to make you day by introducing, Let Me Google That For [...]

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RevWatch – Google Earth, Firefox, Chrome, and Backtrack Beta 4

February 4, 2009

Google has released an updated version of Google Earth (5.0.11337.1968). The update includes a host of new features including Google Oceans – The ocean floor is not a 3D terrain instead of the previous 2D map, you can even see wave motions, and now you can fly below the ocean as well. Google Mars – [...]

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Google Chrome conflict with Symantec Endpoint Protection

December 20, 2008

If you install Symantec Endpoint Protection and you use the Google Chrome browser you are likely to see the following error. "The Application Failed to Initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application" If you get this error there is a simple fix. Right Click the Google Chrome Shortcut and select properties, in [...]

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Google Streetview gets a massive update.

December 14, 2008

The official Google blog announced that their Google Maps Streetview feature has just received a massive update. Their United States coverage has more than doubled. To get an idea of the scale of the coverage increase check out the before and after. I dig Streetview and I’m glad to see the coverage expanded. You can [...]

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