me neither

9/23/2008 4:54:35 PM

Likewise, I won't switch to AT&T for an iPhone, don't care how awesome it is.

9/23/2008 5:37:21 PM

noticed some changes in google reader today

there's an options popup in the feeds pane (sort by alphabetical or "my order" - drap-n-drop) and when you press n/p to navigate through posts, the scrollbar moves to keep the next post at the top

9/23/2008 7:16:17 PM

here's a new service to bring you direct quotes from politicians on a topic you pick (or quotes that contain the word you pick)
http://labs.google.com/inquotes/


and some significant drawbacks to the G1 and the Android platform
http://gizmodo.com/5053747/android-and-t+mobile-g1s-five-most-obnoxious-flaws

Quote :

"Topping the list, it's tightly integrated with your Google account—so tightly that you can only use one Google account with the phone. If you want to switch to another account, you have to do a whole factory reset. "

i'm curious if this is going to be an Android-wide feature, or if the G1 was able to choose this option somehow

Quote :

"As mentioned, there is no desktop syncing app. It's all about the cloud—your Google contacts and cal are considered the masters. So if it's all on your desktop or god forbird, MobileMe, you've gotta move it over to your Google account."

Quote :

"No multitouch on the G1 and there never will be, since the panel itself doesn't support it. However, Googlers said they expected a full touchscreen device with multitouch in the future. The lack of a headphone jack, though kinda common for HTC devices, is pretty galling, especially for a consumer device. Mini-USB adapters are annoying as hell."

comment on that - Android provides multitouch support. the G1 does not. It is going to be a real pain in the ass for developers to create applications with multitouch, but not know if the phone those applications run on will support that feature.

Quote :

"You've gotta have an SD card for any kind of music or video playback, once the latter arrives—there's no internal storage for media playback. "

Quote :

"after you've used 1GB of data, T-Mobile will slow you down to 50Kbps for the rest of the month. "

9/24/2008 8:21:49 AM

I agree with the last comment ...

After having worked on an iPhone app, it would be a total PITA to worry about which features are available on which phones, and to try to develop an app that autosenses the different hardware options regarding user interface, I/O, etc.

But, lots of phones will run it, so its sorta a lose lose for developers ... we want to grow our product, but doing so will be painful.

9/24/2008 11:20:40 AM

http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/

http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html

[Edited on September 24, 2008 at 11:31 AM. Reason : links]

9/24/2008 11:25:32 AM

here's some videos of the G1
http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/t-mobile-g1-video-hands-on/
the browser definitely doesn't look as good as the iPhone, and doesn't really even look as good as Mobile Opera on Windows Mobile

9/24/2008 8:39:56 PM

hmm, i think this is new.... context-sensitive advertisements along the bottom of Google Maps, like the "Web Clips" that are in Gmail (if you don't turn them off)

9/26/2008 3:11:21 PM

Google innovation from 7 years ago:

http://www.google.com/search2001.html

Quote :

"In honor of our 10th birthday, we've brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001. "

10/1/2008 8:38:21 AM

that's pretty cool

10/1/2008 8:43:38 AM

some interesting search comparisons. Some of the result differences are simply from the growing internet and a wider reach for Google, but mostly they show how different words and phrases have entered our everyday language in the last 8 years

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="sarah+palin" - 0 results
http://www.google.com/search?q="sarah+palin" - 20,600,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="barack+obama" - 671
http://www.google.com/search?q="barack+obama" - 65,100,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="john+kerry" - 17,300
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="john+kerry" - 8,780,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=ipod - 1,300
http://www.google.com/search?q=ipod - 375,000,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=iphone - 28,600
http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone - 304,000,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="September+11" - 487,000
http://www.google.com/search?q="September+11" - 41,700,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="osama+bin+laden" - 44,400
http://www.google.com/search?q="osama+bin+laden" - 11,200,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="operation+iraqi+freedom" - 0
http://www.google.com/search?q="operation+iraqi+freedom" - 1,670,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="iraq+war" - 17,600
http://www.google.com/search?q="iraq+war" - 20,600,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="weapons+of+mass+destruction" - 126,000
http://www.google.com/search?q="weapons+of+mass+destruction" - 6,250,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="whole+foods" - 47,400
http://www.google.com/search?q="whole+foods" - 6,220,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="windows+vista" - 143
http://www.google.com/search?q="windows+vista" - 194,000,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="mac+os+x" - 405,000
http://www.google.com/search?q="mac+os+x" - 78,700,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="toyota+prius" - 9,060
http://www.google.com/search?q="toyota+prius" - 6,880,000

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q="hybrid+car" - 4,050
http://www.google.com/search?q="hybrid+car" - 3,540,000


[Edited on October 1, 2008 at 9:53 AM. Reason : shit. TWW doesn't handle "s in links very well....]

10/1/2008 9:48:07 AM

i wanna see some that went from high# to low#

10/1/2008 9:52:27 AM

not sure if that's possible, given the nature of how the internet has grown.....
I mean, i guess it's possible that there were some obscure phrases that someone had on a website at one point that they have since removed, but it's almost certain that that phrase was copied and archived somewhere else where they don't have control

10/1/2008 9:55:46 AM

I love how google had no ads in 2001

10/1/2008 10:17:50 AM

I wonder how much these people sold their domain for

10/1/2008 10:22:10 AM

^^ apparently there were ads in 2001 already. They sanitized the special 2001 search page. And they used an even older logo, from the late 90's. By 2001 they already had the cleaner, more professional logo
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-10-01-n76.html

10/1/2008 6:24:40 PM

I think that I used Excite back in 2001.

10/3/2008 3:39:23 AM

i used search.com, which was by cnet i think

10/3/2008 9:12:19 AM

altavista all the way

10/3/2008 9:18:09 AM

Altavista until sometime in 2000/1, I think ...

Then Google and I've never looked back or thought twice otherwise.

10/3/2008 12:25:49 PM

^ditto

10/3/2008 1:38:39 PM

Mail Goggles: A breathalyzer test for your Gmail
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081007-mail-goggles-a-breathlyzer-test-for-your-gmail.html

Quote :

"Called "Mail Goggles," the Gmail add-on makes sending e-mail from Gmail more difficult during certain times that you can set manually (while sober, that is). How does it do this? If you have Mail Goggles installed—which you can do by going to the "Labs" tab under your Gmail settings and turning them on—it will force you to answer a series of math questions before sending out any new messages. [...] If you get any of the questions wrong, Mail Goggles will say, "Water and bed for you. Or try again.""

Humorous, yet brilliant.

10/7/2008 12:07:52 PM

http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/10/introducing-geode/

future versions of Firefox plan on supporting the new W3C Geolocation Specification, which adds the native ability for Web sites to request, and you to optionally grant access to, your location. We’re still working out the specifics, but we’re hoping that location will be provided by one or more user selectable service providers and methods, e.g. GPS-based, WiFi-based, manual entry, etc. You’ll be able to play with this in the upcoming beta releases of Firefox 3.1, as well as alpha releases of Fennec.

...
You can download Geode here.
https://people.mozilla.com/%7Edolske/dist/geode/geode-latest.xpi

To see Geode in action you can check out the demo Food Finder, which shows you the cafes and restaurants within walking distance.
http://azarask.in/local

10/7/2008 5:14:01 PM

nice, finally. advanced IMAP controls for gmail
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-advanced-imap-controls.html

10/9/2008 11:26:03 PM

Quote :

"Altavista until sometime in 2000/1, I think ... Then Google and I've never looked back or thought twice otherwise."

10/10/2008 1:08:39 AM

I know this was added like over a year ago, but I found this in my bookmarks and love it.

(Make sure to check, "Load in sidebar" after adding it to bookmarks.)

GoogleTalk
http://hostedtalkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/client

GAfYD
http://hostedtalkgadget.google.com/a/domain.com/talkgadget/client

[Edited on October 15, 2008 at 4:53 PM. Reason : .]

10/15/2008 4:52:09 PM

New version of Gmail for your Mobile devices (Blackberry and J2ME) ...

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/10/introducing-gmail-for-mobile-20.html

I've noticed a -huge- improvement in performance, and its usability is much more refined.

Also, you can use the same client for Gmail-proper or GAfYD email accounts, including having multiple accounts usable from the same client.

Can also save multiple drafts now instead of just one. Although I wouldn't be able to tell you when I needed to do so, I guess someone did need it.

10/23/2008 5:55:34 PM

^^ i've been using the iphone version of igoogle as a sidebar off and on for a while. if i could figure out how to get the sidebar to only show when i'm focused on a particular tab, that would be perfect, but i haven't found anything good yet

10/23/2008 7:54:50 PM

Is there a way to overlay google maps search results? For example i'd like to map an address. Save that marker and then search for hotels around it and have it display both address and hotels

10/23/2008 10:04:09 PM

i just want to forward a funny monkey picture to someone

10/24/2008 8:16:07 AM

ahaha

i'm on the mailing list for that thing..i turned it off though

10/24/2008 8:17:21 AM

^^^ click on my maps - you can create placemarks and also search - after the placemarks are there - you can print the map and give it to someone - i don't think you can share it though electronically with the search results currently though (although they could replicate the search)

10/24/2008 9:40:22 AM

Google Launches Google Apps Labs, Third Party Developers Welcome
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/28/google-launches-google-apps-labs-third-party-developers-welcome/

Quote :

"Google is launching Google Apps Labs today, a new platform for experimental apps (Google Moderator is one of the first to be added). These are third party applications that can be added by businesses and schools using Google Apps. In addition to Google Moderator, two other apps are available now: Google Code Reviews (peer review of software code) and Google Short Links (change URLs to something shorter and more descriptive). What’s most interesting about the announcement is that Google will be opening up the platform to third party developers who want their apps to be available to the “million-plus businesses” using Google Apps today. "

10/28/2008 4:51:51 PM

street view in Spain and Italy now. some good examples here
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/10/un-paseo-por-espaa.html
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/10/la-dolce-vista-street-view-comes-to.html


they're also doing some good stuff in Maps and Earth with the election this year and historical results
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-us-has-voted-since-1980.html
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/#historical_results

10/31/2008 10:56:05 AM

Gmail Labs Adds Text Messaging Feature.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/31/gmail-labs-adds-text-messaging-feature-kthxbai/

Quote :

"The first time you send a text message, it will appear on the person’s phone as coming from a number in the 406 area code. Google has made several thousands of these numbers available for Gmail users, and once a number is associated with your account, all of the text messages you send through Gmail will come from that number. The 406 number works both ways, so your friend can reply to you via text message. Also, your friend can save that number in their phone as belonging to you, and they can even use it to initiate new chats with you."

10/31/2008 1:18:17 PM

^ really cool but what if i want to hide

10/31/2008 1:23:23 PM

hey this is the internets man, privacy is a thing of the past

10/31/2008 1:28:25 PM

google needs to sort out their imap connections

outlook at work and windows mail keeps yelling at me about credentials

11/1/2008 10:50:49 AM

neato

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/say-hello-to-gmail-voice-and-video-chat.html

11/11/2008 4:18:18 PM

Quote :

"outlook at work and windows mail keeps yelling at me about credentials"

yeah, i go so tired of it that i shit canned my domain with google and just went back to the basic dreamhost email

11/11/2008 6:04:47 PM

I used to use Google Imap, but canned the email client in favor of the browser client. The labels (tags) are really nice and the search, of course, rocks.

11/11/2008 9:06:38 PM

I used Google's IMAP just to maintain local copies of my email ... I use the browser client for actual use.

11/11/2008 9:52:53 PM

video chat

11/12/2008 3:46:22 PM

yeah, it's pretty sweet. I just video-chatted with a friend in Munich and it worked great. Decent quality, pretty good refresh rate.
I walked my laptop (with integrated iSight camera) around my house and all around outside and was able to give them a virtual tour of my house, and the video worked the whole time without a skip at all

11/12/2008 5:20:34 PM

their damn setNoResultString in their AJAX Search API doesn't work with multiple tabbed searches

11/12/2008 7:12:05 PM

Sketchup 7 released

http://sketchup.google.com/

11/18/2008 10:16:11 AM

LIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image Search
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/life-photo-archive-available-on-google.html
http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Well, now this is pretty awesome. Full size pictures and all ... awesome.

11/18/2008 3:21:21 PM

it would be nice if they framed it more as a Picasa Gallery instead of an image search, so at least you could from picture to picture, instead of going back to the thumbnails page each time....

having said that, it's completely amazing to look back at 150 year old pictures
http://images.google.com/images?q=1860s+US+Civil+War+source:life

11/18/2008 3:50:49 PM

^ i would prefer the same

11/18/2008 3:52:18 PM

not exactly "Google Innovation" related, but YouTube + Geek related
http://www.youtube.com/MontyPython

11/19/2008 11:02:38 AM