Wow now I think this is really cool, Google has updated its mobile maps to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers.

Here’s the video ;

Who needs satellites then ?

-Kyle

In today’s Guardian they are suggesting Google will announce its gphone today - although there’s no words yet on the technology weblogs.

Due to be released the middle of next year.

-Kyle

I see there’s a little buzz this morning between blogger’s about the new Google Mail feature IMAP. Over on Techcrunch and Lifehacker those guys are currently reporting about this new feature, but seem not to have this feature available yet on their account. Although they could have mine, I’m a web guy, I like everything available online.

For those who want a well synchronized online/offline experience, then I suppose it’s useful, but doesn’t Google want you to see their advertising ? What advertising do you see when your mail is delivered to your desktop client?  

I also wonder if Google is doing this randomly or on Gmail sign-up date?

Update :

I now seem to have 4.3GB available on my Gmail is this normal ?

I always thought it was two gigs?

Update 2

From the Google Mail website;

It comes with built-in Google search technology and over 2,600 megabytes of storage (and growing every day).

Guess they just nearly doubled mine then !

-Kyle

(via Lifehacker)

-Kyle

OK, please give this a try. Go to Google.com, type the words …

… and hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button.

via Google Blogoscoped

They have too much time on their hands over at Google

Update, The image is located on Google Blogoscoped server, guess it’s not Google then, trickery.

-Kyle

This morning I awoke to find an invitation in my inbox for Google Mashup Editor.

“Google Mashup Editor is an incredibly powerful tool for rapid testing and deployment of mashup concepts. It’s simple easy and fun to produce something very quickly, but it will be much harder to produce fantastic products. Nonetheless, the cost-savings in development time are going to make this a popular testbed for all sorts of concepts. Google Mashup Editor is a name you will hear a lot in future.” (via)

In five minutes I had whipped up a RSS feed display for this site, although that’s all it does (displays post headings), it does show the possibilities and simplicity, find it here.

http://sudoku.googlemashups.com/ is also worth a look

-Kyle

I was wondering if anybody took any notice of Google’s pledge last week to shorten the life span of the cookies its leaves on users’ system to two years (formally expiring in 2038) and it will anonymise user logs after 18 months.

The above pledge does sound rather good but the part I believed everybody missed is the part about these initiatives being meaningless. The reason for this is that the cookies will be renewed anytime the user uses a Google Service : Gmail, Blogger, Youtube, Google Earth, Google Checkout, Orkut etc.

Who doesn’t use one of those services in 2 years ?

Pointless !

-Kyle     

Now what would I do if I had a few extra pennies lying around my bedroom, I would have bought GrandCentral of course. Listen up you mugs out there! This web 2.0 company is going to be big and look the daddy of all Internet companies has just bought it Google.

Read More at the Google Weblog

-Kyle

A good example is Hot or Not and Google maps somebody had created a small web application that allows you to search by post code (or close to it) to find people registered on Hot or Not then displays their profile together with photo’s etc. Now this sort of thing could be created from any site you supply a post code too, which I find a little scary because then it becomes very personal which could be a big danger to society members like women. Although things like this I see as an extension to the phonebook, its getting the balance just right. Nobody has full control over the web, so be careful.     

Furthermore I fear for the youth culture of today, in the future when applying for jobs a big long trail will be left of your Friday night shanigans or a comment on a site that may not be appropriate. All an employer would have to do is perform a ’search’ and the results would be displayed. I wouldn’t be surprised in the none to distant future to find organisations in which other org’s employ to ’dig up dirt’ about prospectus employees. The Internet gives you the interactive user freeness, in which views and actions can be expressed. Now I am not judging these actions but what is imperative to this argument is that these views you reflect are in line with any future job roles you take, unlike some young lib dem eh. A good article about this can be read here   

Although if you have a name like Michael Smith you can fuck about all you want, there is just too many of the little critters !!.

-Kyle

Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and millions of pages generated every day, the search issue in the Web is more complex than you probably think it is. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search results, helps to keep our search clean and efficient. But how is it actually done? How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which don’t? And what do we really know about PageRank?

(thanks J-walk)

I spent a nice evening eating a stake from the county (or is it morning now) which I would thoroughly recommend to anybody.

-Kyle