Every so often a blogger will provide me with an “Uh, duh” moment, what some might call a minor obvious epiphany, something I should have thought of already. Steve Rubel gets the credit for that this time, in a Micropersuasion post about Twitter and Facebook’s impending impact on search.
Google Shines Up Chrome Web Browser
As America returns to work after the Labor Day holiday weekend, crusty eyes are abuzz about Google Chrome, the company’s own surprise open source Web browser in beta. Bloggers on the scene—European ones and those who apparently don’t take holidays—let the Chrome cat out of the bag a day early.
Google Shines A Light On Blackle’s Inefficiency
When you go into a grocery store, you shut your car off – letting it idle would waste gas (and invite thieves). When you pause at a stop sign, you leave your car on – restarting it after one second would just waste time and energy. And although these examples are rather obvious, Google’s now addressing the reasons behind Blackle, a dark search engine and would-be electricity saver.
Spock Shines Despite Limited Reach
The reviews are rolling in, and they’re largely positive; Spock, it seems, is good. But the reviews also suggest that this people search engine needs to find a more effective means of gathering information.
Sunlight Shines On OpenCongress.Org
The Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation bring together legislation, news, and the teeming blogosphere on their new website.
Gmail Shines In Googler Video
Where does a major Internet company with a $143 billion market cap and millions of dollars in cash in the bank turn to when it’s time to create an ad campaign for Gmail? To its cube dwellers, of course.
Crystal Shines On Eclipse
The Crystal Reports for Eclipse from Business Objects brings the power of the outstanding reporting tool to Eclipse developers.
World Cup Shines On The Web
Yahoo dominates the global soccer showcase as the host of the official website for the World Cup, and other sites offer Cup-related services. Even though the talking heads on ESPNRadio and local sports radio shows have nothing but disdain for soccer and its occasional 1-0 scores…
New Java Platform Beta Shines For Web Developers
Sun Microsystems announced the release of the Beta release of their new Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). They called the effort Project Mustang. They’ve added some features and improved on others to improve developers’ Java experience.
Sun Shines On Google Rumors
Google has a custom operating system in use internally, but will they have to share it when they outsource their server farms becomes the big question, at least if you believe what Sun Microsystems has to say.