Category Archives: Google

News and information posts about the behemoth Google

I tried really I did but Gmail still sucks

May 13, 2008 – 4:00 pm

For the past week or so I have been trying to let all this Web 2.0 goodness rub off on me and been using Gmail - the poster child web mail application for the movement. Sure I had tried it in the past but after a day or two left it in the corner [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Software |

Verizon: What Open Access Rules ?

May 5, 2008 – 9:54 pm

During the recent poker hand that saw Google betting hard by putting $4.6 billion on the table in order to ensure that the 700MHz wireless spectrum would have open access rules which the FCC agreed would be the terms the winner would have to follow Verizon walked away the winner. The assumption at that [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

What is cloud computing?

May 2, 2008 – 8:07 pm

With sometimes what seems to be breakneck speed things change in technology with old concepts being thrown to the curb and new ones rushing in to fill the void. Along with those new technologies come all the buzzwords used by marketing departments or folks looking to sound cool as they spout the hot new [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Microsoft |

Considerations in moving to web mail

April 21, 2008 – 2:46 pm

As I continue in consolidating a bunch of stuff in order to make my daily web life a little easier to navigate through one of the things I have been considering the last couple of days involved totally rethinking my stance on web mail apps. I have stated before that I don’t like them [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Security, Site News |

Advertising for bloggers has to change

April 12, 2008 – 8:16 pm

Disclaimer: I doubt very much that this post will be of any interest to those bloggers out there who blog for the self-professed joy of blogging itself, or to any blogger who feels that advertising has no place on blogs, or to bloggers who think it’s okay for their content to be used elsewhere [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging, Internet | Comments (9)

Merging your social networks with your inbox

March 31, 2008 – 3:38 pm

As you have probably noticed already the news about Xoopit the application that is being billed as the first application for webmail to let you discover all those photos, files and other assorted rich media that is hiding in your inbox and then share them with your friends on the various social networks. At [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Social Media |

Get your Disqus comments inside of Google gReader

March 31, 2008 – 1:59 pm

I just got an email from Paul Arterburn over at blog!167 about a new extension and bookmarklet for Firefox that will let you view Disqus comments in Google gReader. Below are a couple of screenshots I snagged from Paul’s page for the goodies
Closed Position

Open Position

I’m not a user of Google’s gReader but a [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging |

Google - its own worst enemy

March 2, 2008 – 9:39 pm

Google is the king.
Google can do no wrong.
Google is the epitome of do no evil.
All those things may be the case; although the last one could be extremely questionable, but let’s take a second and look at a few things. Google indexes a crap load of pages every second of every day. People have [...]

By Steven Hodson |