I don't like it that some of their programs index your hdd and report back to Google.

5/30/2008 3:09:28 PM

.... only if you install the program and tell it to report back to google

5/30/2008 3:12:09 PM

do you use gmail? i'm pretty sure they index that too

5/30/2008 3:43:44 PM

They definitely index gmail.

5/30/2008 8:02:25 PM

definitely

5/30/2008 8:04:58 PM

definitely

5/30/2008 8:54:38 PM

definitely

5/30/2008 9:37:09 PM

what with the new favicon?

5/30/2008 10:04:01 PM

Quote :

"what with the new favicon? "

yeah what the fuck is with that shit? that G looks like something out of a women's magazine, it's all soft and curly ~

5/31/2008 5:40:03 AM

Yeah I saw the new icon too. Heh, I thought my computer was just being weird.

5/31/2008 6:21:47 AM

http://goosh.org/

Quote :

"Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It's essentially a browser-oriented, shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google (and images and news) and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format."

6/2/2008 7:47:59 PM

^So much win.

6/2/2008 7:53:19 PM

thats pretty cool

6/2/2008 7:54:31 PM

awesome

6/2/2008 9:36:19 PM

uggh hate the new icon. love http://goosh.org/

6/3/2008 11:51:35 AM

Quote :

"yeah what the fuck is with that shit? that G looks like something out of a women's magazine, it's all soft and curly ~"

Is what I thought of...

[Edited on June 3, 2008 at 1:54 PM. Reason : ]

6/3/2008 1:54:31 PM

Google Transit now integrated with Mobile Gmaps, nice! Although RDU isn't in their transit system yet, it should be.

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/06/get-bus-and-train-directions-on-go-with.html

Quote :

"Enter the new version of Google Maps for mobile. This version (2.2) allows you to get transit directions in all the same places http://www.google.com/transit as the web version of Google Maps, including Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Vancouver, and over 40 other cities in North America. This version of Google Maps for mobile even has a few tricks not yet available on the desktop version of Google Maps. For instance, you can find the last transit trips of the day (to figure out how late you can stay at the party) and more easily browse through earlier or later trips. The My Location feature, available on most phones, also makes it easier to set the start point of your journey. This version of Google Maps for mobile also includes a bunch of other goodies, like faster searching on BlackBerry devices and star ratings for businesses. It's currently available for BlackBerry devices and many other Java-based phones. To download it to your phone visit http://www.google.com/gmm from your phone's web browser or on the desktop. We're working to bring public transit directions to Google Maps on other devices, so stay tuned!"

6/5/2008 11:02:27 PM

Quote :

"Get bus and train directions on the go with Google Maps for mobile"

ha, plan ahead. the driver of the train isn't going to care what google says.

6/6/2008 1:09:10 AM

it's perfect for the great urban race

6/6/2008 1:11:48 AM

"Gmail Labs" gives you some experimental features in gmail. it's already active for my account
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/introducing-gmail-labs.html
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-06-n28.html

6/6/2008 8:27:57 AM

thats some good stuff there. the starring system is much much better now, the take a break thing is rather useful, and the quick links is pretty useful as well.

6/6/2008 8:58:33 AM

yeah i'm using the quicklinks for a todo list. simpler than rememberthemilk and more helpful than the todo label i was using before

6/6/2008 10:13:14 AM

can't get the snake game to work (pressing & doesn't seem to do anything -- and yes i have keyboard shortcuts on)

6/6/2008 1:23:03 PM

^ they actually lied, you have to hit "7", not (shift+7=&).

6/6/2008 1:30:34 PM

^ shift+7 works fine for me

6/6/2008 2:53:02 PM

^ try 7 by itself

6/6/2008 3:15:59 PM

^does nothing for me

6/6/2008 9:27:42 PM

does anyone else have problems accepting an invitation to a google group. i click accept from the email and then it goes into some retarded refresh loop. halp

6/8/2008 9:39:27 PM

i just noticed this, but it's probably old, but now google maps has isometric renderings of buildings when zoomed in.


View Larger Map


[Edited on June 9, 2008 at 12:43 AM. Reason : zoom]

6/9/2008 12:42:00 AM

ahaha, Google <3 Konami
go to Google Reader and type (use the arrows for up, down, etc)

up up down down left right left right b a

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-09-n29.html

6/9/2008 10:31:43 AM

Looks like google maps has a massive increase in streetviews. St louis, where I am living now, got on and looks like a bunch more on the east coast.

6/11/2008 12:04:25 PM

^Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Greenville (SC), Columbia (SC), Atlanta, Nashville, Knoxville, half of Florida ... and many many more.

6/11/2008 12:15:32 PM

they dont have all the little streets in gboro

6/11/2008 12:19:32 PM

Ah yea, I just zoomed in, that's sad for them.

6/11/2008 12:25:24 PM

Google put together a gallery of election-related maps
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/

6/18/2008 3:01:19 PM

they don't have my street in charlotte either

6/18/2008 3:03:50 PM

they have every street around my house except for mine slackers

6/18/2008 3:04:41 PM

my google apps gmail got an update on the top navigation bar to look more like regular gmail with the white background instead of the blue background and small font

6/19/2008 10:23:17 AM

i might be late to the party on this one but i just downloaded Earth 6.3 beta...lots more 3d buildings with photo textures...downtown Charlotte looks pretty sweet...they even have downtown Raleigh in 3d!

6/23/2008 3:12:03 PM

http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/labs

6/25/2008 5:04:24 PM

message_topic.aspx?topic=277774&page=26#11669726

6/25/2008 5:10:51 PM

SHIT

6/25/2008 5:11:46 PM

6/25/2008 5:16:58 PM

Well fwiw, it WAS just introduced system-wide for Domain customers.


... and I'm still hating the new favicon

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 9:56 PM. Reason : yuck]

6/25/2008 9:55:31 PM

they released Street View for France, but just for the Tour de France course for now. Pretty sweet though - looks like they drove the entire 2000+mi course and mapped it all
http://www.google.fr/tourdefrance2008


In other Google news, Google has been ordered by a judge to turn over "every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom
hopefully google will go to the mat to fight this one. This judge has clearly overstepped privacy bounds
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/judge-orders-yo.html

7/3/2008 1:09:30 PM

god damn. gotta assume google is going to appeal that decision.

why in the world would viacom need the ip's of the users other than to have it to target those people later?

7/3/2008 2:43:39 PM

Gmail now has the ability to remotely logout open sessions of your Gmail account, also will show you a detail log of when your account was accessed and by what method.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/remote-sign-out-and-info-to-help-you.html

Very nice security feature.

7/7/2008 6:43:01 PM

anybody else have it active on their account yet? not working on mine yet

7/7/2008 6:48:09 PM

Yea, it's actually working on my Domain account as well.

7/7/2008 6:50:47 PM

nice. i hope its history goes back at least a week. my gmail got hacked or something last week. it was weird, i had gmail open as usual and saw the whole thing happen. suddenly i had like 40+ bounced emails in my inbox and then a minute or so later they were gone (at least most of them). apparently it emailed everybody in my contacts some spam link.

7/7/2008 6:51:25 PM