Google crops up an awful lot. It seems as though a paragraph cannot be written these days without Google doing something benevolent or controversial in the middle of it, so now Google it has it’s own category.
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March 1st, 2008, by Rich, in Google, Mobile, Tech.
For the last few weeks I’ve been testing out some geo-tagging software on my camera. The concept is fairly simple, whenever I take a photo, the built-in GPS works out where I am and records this metadata within the photo. More…
January 31st, 2007, by Rich, in Google, Religion, Society.
Mr. Deity shows what can be achieved with a static camera, a simple script, minimalist set design and great acting. Episode 5 was released yesterday. By releasing an episode every 2 weeks the producers hope to garner enough interest to turn it into a full TV series. More…
December 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Google, Google Earth, Nice Things.
Sometimes nice things come back and surprise you. Last year, just after I’d upgraded to Google Earth Plus, I was looking for some good Santa-stuff in Google Earth (so I could show my younger relatives something interesting on what is otherwise a very dull computer), and I spotted a shape: looking around Northern Europe I realised the nice crinkly edges formed a good pair of antlers. More…
December 19th, 2006, by Rich, in Advertising, Google, Tech, Website.
I am a consumer.
Buy my undivided attention.
Exclusivity guaranteed.
Bids start at just €0.01 per day.
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October 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Google, Website, WordPress, bbPress.
The plugin system on BBPress is still rather rudimentary (you create a folder called “my-plugins”) and any php that exists therein is considered to be an activated plugin. The good news here is, that (a) it works and (b) it’s so similar to the WordPress that many plugins will magically work without modification. My Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress is (almost) one such example. More…
July 3rd, 2006, by Rich, in Advertising, Google, Open Standards.
The possibly-too-quick-for-it’s-own-good rise of Google has set them up squarely as the new arch rival to Microsoft, and their latest advertising angle suggests more than a mild concern over the pre-installed applications in Microsoft’s looming Windows Vista, which is now in Beta testing. More…
May 12th, 2006, by Rich, in Google, Tech.
Google has this week announced a labs project called Google Trends, a rather nice extension to the monthly search roundup that is Google Zeitgeist. Trends lets you see how popular a particular search term has been over time, and then just for fun, you can compare the popularity of other search terms over the same period. More…
April 13th, 2006, by Rich, in Google, Palm.
Google Calendar has now entered it’s public beta testing phase. The interface will be familiar to anyone who’s used GMail and any other calendar application before - it’s basically a hybrid of the two. More…
March 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Google, Google Earth, Religion, Silly, Society.
I’ve mentioned previously about how the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) may be leaving us clues about His impending manifestation on Earth. I think I just spotted another, and it’s rather significant. More…
March 1st, 2006, by Rich, in Google.
The rise in referral traffic from Google seems to have stabilized, so I’ve re-run the analysis from last week and updated the big daddy status list to reflect the current status of the various datacentres; two of which appear to have switched over to BigDaddy during the last week. Curiously (or not, depending on how conspiratorial you want to be) the logs show not one single referral from any of the machines in the IP range of each datacentre, yet.
