On Monday, the Google Press Center released word of (yet another) new direction for the company.
Firefox Gets Personal With Google Toolbar
New features made available with version 2 of the Google Toolbar for Firefox provide users with the ability to easily integrate newly discovered feeds into the Google Personalized Homepage or other feed readers.
Ray Lane on the Inter-personal Enterprise
Ray Lane gave a great opening keynote that I’m sure will be covered elsewhere.
Personal Blogging Clarified
Visiting the blog of Amazon.com’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, to read his account of a presentation at Amazon by Naked Conversations authors Shel Israel and Robert Scoble (some very interesting commentaries about that – link at Memeorandum), I spotted the clearest employee blog disclaimer I’ve yet seen.
Searching For Anonymity: Now, Its Personal
Until the four major US search engines were subpoenaed by the government, searcher anonymity and privacy was a yawn of concern for most, even if there were a few Paul Reveres out there. After complying with the order, though MSN and others promised no personally identifiable information was given, the slippery slope got a whole lot slicker.
Personal Blogs and Interest Conflicts
What limits, if any, should be placed on journalist who blogs on their own personal sites?
Alexa Allows Personal Search Development
Alexa is a little-known search company owned by Amazon, which is primarily used by search marketers as a basic statistics provider.
Personal Dictionary for Ispell
Ispell works well, but it has to be the most confused project I’ve ever seen. I started looking into this because I got tired of seeing the same common words pop up for correction and wanted to add those words to some file that would cause Ispell to ignore them.
Watson 2.0, The New Butler of Personal Search
The world of search software is getting cooler and cooler. Available in beta until the end of the summer Chicago-based Intellext has released Watson 2.0, a sort of “search butler” standing alongside you as you work, searching for relevant topics as you go.
Whirlpool Gets Up Close and Personal With Maytag
There are three parties after the acquisition of Maytag – Ripplewood, Chian’s Haier Group, and Whirlpool. Maytag’s board of directors has been backing an offer made by Ripplewood.