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Google +1 – the Digital Media War Room.

June 15, 20111 Comment

There are few services which aptly get to grips with social ranking algorithms to show popular content across services. These are my hopes for Google +1.

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Google people search. How big is Google’s social network?

June 12, 20111 Comment

Having taken a peek at Google’s  robots.txt file, I uncovered a pretty interesting URL. (It’s a biggish download if you are wondering why your browser is struggling). Turns out the entire list of Google profiles that Google has on it’s books (which are  forming the basis of Google +1) are all publicly available. Just out of curiosity I [...]

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Why Facebook Won’t Put Google Out of Business

June 5, 20114 Comments

I’m pretty many of you noticed the Techcrunch guest post last week, “Why Facebook will put Google out of Business”. Lets put this bullshit to bed shall we?

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Google Places offering 3D business photos

May 14, 20110 Comments

Google have turned the heat up another notch in their bid to attract users to Google places. The more formal introduction of Google business photos this month by Marrisa Mayer at  the Social-Loco conference shows that they are planning on ramping up the quality of information found within businesses listings, and are using 3d business [...]

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Browser based Angry Birds lands on Chrome Store.

May 11, 20111 Comment

Launched today at Google’s IO conference, Rovio’s massive hit Angry birds has just been released on the Chrome web store, using HTML5, and the power of WebGL to deliver its browser based gaming experience.

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Google’s addiction to speed, and how engagement metrics will shape the web.

May 11, 20112 Comments

Without a doubt you’ll have noticed Google’s recent moves in the search space focusing publishers on speed. It makes sense for them to encourage faster websites commercially for them, as lowering their bandwidth consumption, and easier quicker indexing if the web translates directly into savings of millions of dollars. I thought it would be interesting [...]

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So, turns out Android tracks your location too.

April 23, 20110 Comments

Whilst the web is still largely reeling from the discovery that Apple devices track the locations of its users in an easily accessible file containing geodata, turns out that Google Android devices are doing something very similar – albeit, without nearly as much fuss. Within a day of the Apple discovery, developer Magnus Eriksson created a [...]

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New version of the Google Prediction API released.

April 22, 20110 Comments

Yesterday Google released a new version of the Prediction API. (v1.2) – an update to their product released in May last year.  Its an easy way to access high level algorithms developed internally at Google to predict outcomes by feeding in data, and uses machine learning heavily to provide meaningful data. Google provide pattern-matching and [...]

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Google push “Reading level” feature to the masses.

April 9, 20110 Comments

Google have made an aesthetic change to two features which were previously hidden underneath advanced search. Both the dictionary definition tool, and Google Reading level have now been integrated firmly into the sidebar.

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