So I’ve been using the Nexus One for just over a month now, and I’d thought I’d write down some quick thoughts about what I think of the device so far. As far as the device itself goes, I’m extremely satisfied with it. The Android user interface is snappy on the Nexus One and the [...]
As I’ve been sick as a dog all week, I’ve been spending way too much time sitting in front of the computer browsing the web (as I haven’t felt well enough to do much else besides watching television). Today’s distraction ended up being Google’s preview video for Wave, which I haven’t had any time to [...]
Poor Mark Ghosh. As someone who uses a ton of different email accounts, online community profiles and social networking tools, I really feel for this guy. Having any account compromised just plain sucks (I’ve had it happen to me, and I totally understand Mark’s reference to ‘panic mode’). I thought this was a particularly relevant [...]
GDrive’s been spotted again! I’ve been excited about Google GDrive product for quite a while now (yes, I actually do get excited about new products from Google, it’s a sickness). I think I first heard about it around two years ago (as you can see from these headlines, this is not the first time the [...]
Since I’m at home sick today with a particularly nasty throat infection, I was browsing through some of my old posts, and noticed that my Google PageRank had mysteriously returned to it’s old value of 4 (I use SearchStatus in Firefox to see PageRank values). While I don’t really care too much about PageRank, I [...]
Google announced back in December that the company would be creating something called “knols”, which Google describes as “units of knowledge” — which has been met with a mixed reaction. For example (and this is lifted, by me, from the Wikipedia page on knols), Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, suggested: [...]
A little while ago, I decided to drop the ‘www’ from this site. I accomplished this by basically redirecting www.lucasmcdonnell.com to lucasmcdonnell.com. Seemed simple enough at the time — and I preferred leaving out the ‘www’ (it always seems redundant to me). What this also accomplished however, was to drop my Google PageRank from four [...]
Did Google’s mail service kill another product line? Shane Smith, CEO of Independent International Investment Research (IIIR) claims that it did. According to Smith, “Google have made a monstrous mess of their intellectual property requirements around their GMail product.” IIIR apparently had another product called ‘GMail’ before Google did — and claims that Google improperly [...]
A while ago, I introduced a Google Custom Search box on this site that searched all the major knowledge management and technology sites. I’ve received a few messages asking me where that box went. So you’ll be happy to know (admit it, you’re happy) that I’ve reintroduced Google Custom Search. The idea behind this search [...]
Robert Berkman has a post on his blog about Serph and TagFetch — two new metasearch engines that will search multiple blog search engines and tag aggregators (including Technorati, Flickr, Digg, YouTube, Google Blog Search, Bloglines and Newsvine). The growth of these sites demonstrates the need for a metadata strategy for the web — which [...]
