I know the name sounds a bit awkward and geeky, but GHOP is a masterpiece move by Google in the endless game against Microsoft. I may just be a pawn, but that doesn’t bother me one bit.
For those of you that missed it, Google announced GHOP (Google Highly Open Participation) about two weeks ago. The [...]
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YouTube videos will soon be available for the Apple TV, and possibly for the iPhone. Even though I own neither an iPhone or an Apple TV, I think that this is great news, because it seems that Apple and Google are getting along quite well together. Hopefully we can look forward to more cooperation between [...]
Check out this:
Its the new Street View feature in Google Maps. You can try it here.
Google’s April Fool’s Day joke this year is better than the jokes in previous years. This years joke is TiSP. TiSP is a free Google service that provides you with free broadband internet. Be sure to check out the expanation of how TiSP works. It certainly is an “end-to-end” system as Google claims.
Google also has [...]
According to a lecture by Marissa Mayer (Product Manager for Google), Google’s founders didn’t know HTML. One other interesting thing that was mentioned was:
“Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ [...]
Windows Live OneCare (Microsoft’s attempt at an antivirus program) has apparently been identifying Gmail as a virus. Whenever anyone would go to Gmail’s website, it would tell them that their computer just got infected with the virus BAT/BWG.A. Supposedly it was a mistake, but I just don’t understand why they would identify a [...]
According to Google Maps there’s some kind of giant bug invading Germany. Here’s a picture of it.
No, I did not photoshop that. You can find it on Google Maps here. It probably was a bug that got on Google’s scanner.
I would give a bit more information but I gotta run. You [...]