Search Engines
Use Googles Grand Central on a Mac
Maybe you’re a fan of Google’s Grand Central phone controller. Maybe you also happen to be a Mac addict. So how do you match those two loves into one? Vocito, that’s how.
Savvy to your Mac OS X desktop and things like Address Book, Automator, and the third-party engineered QuickSilver, Vocito manages your management of the [...]
IntenseDebate Goes Public Again, Releases WordPress Plugin
IntenseDebate, the enhanced commenting system that was recently acquired by WordPress’s parent company Automattic, has relaunched to the public (the service originally opened its doors in late 2007, but reentered private beta as soon as it was acquired). IntenseDebate has also released the public beta of its WordPress plugin, which includes a number of features [...]
Google Launching Speech-to-Search iPhone App Today
Voice recognition has always seemed like the holy grail of technology and now Google is throwing their skills into the technology. Starting sometime today, iPhone users can download a free app that allows them to speak a destination or question and within seconds, receive an answer. The app works by recording your voice, uploading it [...]
AOL vs. Live vs. Yahoo: Fight
A day after Yahoo announced how the new front page of Yahoo.com will look like, and a couple of days after AOL redesigned its front page, Microsoft does pretty much the same thing, turning Live.com into a social networking hub of sorts.
It’s impossible to compare the three sites since neither the new Live nor Yahoo [...]
Google’s Chrome: The Danish Magic Inside
Danish JavaScript expert Lars Bak is the wizard behind Google’s new Web browser, Chrome, which aims to change the way we use computers
A Danish farm nestled just a bike ride away from Aarhus—a small city founded 1,000 years ago by Vikings—is a long way from traffic-clogged Silicon Valley and its high-energy engineers and entrepreneurs. [...]
Google Adds Voice And Video Chat to Gmail
Watch out Skype (and Meebo and TokBox), Google is adding voice and video chat to Gmail today, all in one fell swoop. When you are having an instant message conversation with someone over Gtalk, a video and voice option will appear (after you download this plugin).
Google Reader Now Auto-Translates Stuff. Read Anything You Like
Google just made the world a slightly smaller place today. They’ve added a feature to their highly popular Google Reader that will auto-translate any site with a feed to your native tongue. Not only that, it’s very easy to use and it works really well.
Just subscribe to a blog or other feed like normal, then [...]
Google’s Era Of YouTube-Like Experiments Is Over
Going forward in these uncertain economic times, Google will “be more careful with potential large expense streams, which are of uncertain return,” CEO Eric Schmidt told the New York Times in a weekend interview.
You’ve just witnessed business innovation at work, people.
Eric didn’t say so, but we think he and Google learned this lesson from YouTube, [...]
Might As Well Admit It, Microsoft: You Still Need Yahoo
Steve Ballmer continues to dismiss the idea of acquiring Yahoo–and he’s right to: Doing so would still be a disaster. But if Microsoft wants to be a player in the search business–and its current behavior suggests that it still does–combining its search operations with Yahoo’s is a must.
Search is a scale game. Microsoft still has [...]
Microsoft Probably Not Really Considering WebKit For IE
Next to chanting ‘developers, developers, developers’ once again at a Sydney developer conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has stated that he thought the idea of using open source application framework WebKit as the rendering engine for Internet Explorer (and its mobile counterpart) was “interesting” and that the company “may look at that.”
According to Techworld, Ballmer [...]
