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mikelgan
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Comedian Louis CK recently produced an "HBO special"-style show, but with a difference: HBO wasn't involved -- and neither was any other network.
8 weeks 2 days ago
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I finally understand Google's überstrategy for dominating the future of online everything.
9 weeks 2 days ago
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in 2004 that the problem of spam would be solved within two years. It seemed unlikely at the time, and in fact 2006 came and went without so much as a dip in the crushing load of unwanted email advertising.
13 weeks 2 days ago
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Google+ output automation is easy. And now, thanks to a few brave readers and Google+ circle friends, Google+ input automation is easy, too, for the first time ever.
17 weeks 4 days ago
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A cool new Web service, plus a simple hack, turns a Google+ stream into an automated Total Information Awareness dashboard of real-time data.
18 weeks 4 days ago
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A few years ago, the Pentagon launched a program to create a fully functional HAL 9000 -- the intelligent software robot depicted in the 1968 sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.
21 weeks 2 days ago
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Google's only big blunder in the creation of its otherwise excellent Google+ social network has been a flawed policy on what users are allowed to call themselves. Everybody hates the policy. Even Google hates it.
26 weeks 2 days ago
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Apple's iPhone and iPad are taking over mobile, just as mobile is taking over everything. What does it all mean?
33 weeks 2 days ago
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Google's open or Apple's integrated: Whose side are you on? It's war! Again. Or still. Whatever. Apple CEO Steve Jobs launched an "epic rant" during an …
1 year 17 weeks ago
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicted this week that the tablet market will play out much like the cell phone market has: Apple will lose its early lead …
1 year 18 weeks ago
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You may have heard that Twitter announced a Google TV app. That means you'll be able to tell the Twitterverse that you're watching Google TV -- from Google TV. …
1 year 19 weeks ago
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I've whined and complained in this space several times about Gmail's limited features for time-delaying e-mails. I've told you about two third-party services …
1 year 20 weeks ago
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Google representatives told the magazine Computer Sweden that its Hamina, Finland, data center (now under construction) will be cooled with water from the …
1 year 20 weeks ago
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TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington took issue yesterday with my post about recent condescending remarks by top Google executives. Arrington starts off by …
1 year 22 weeks ago
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Google's Gabriel Stricker, director of Global Communications and Public Affairs, opened the Google Instant launch this week. And he was incredibly …
1 year 22 weeks ago
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Google's gazillionaire co-founder Sergey Brin said yesterday "we want Google to be the third half of your brain." But at the rate Google is going they'll soon …
1 year 22 weeks ago
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Toshiba announced plans to release a new Google android-based tablet. That makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that they've decided to name the tablet the …
1 year 23 weeks ago
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The Google Wave blog was updated this afternoon with an announcement that Google may be building some technology in the now defunct Google Wave into other …
1 year 24 weeks ago
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Google this week rolled out plans to broadcast (via YouTube, of course) a kind of weird "infomercial" highlighting the "hottest searches" on Google in the past …
1 year 24 weeks ago
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Google is testing "live search," which means that new results pop up as you're typing. If you want to search for "pizza," for example, the results start …
1 year 25 weeks ago
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No doubt you've seen the crazy CGI videos of various news events created by some TV program in Taiwan. They address technology scandals, including Apple's …
1 year 25 weeks ago
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I've been calling on Google to add e-mail scheduling to Gmail for some time. Now help is on the way in the form of an upcoming service called Boomerang. A …
1 year 25 weeks ago
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal that in the future, the passage from teenage life to adulthood will include an automatic name change "in …
1 year 26 weeks ago
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Google will soon announce the acquisition of Like.com, the image-matching technology company formerly known as Riya. The Silicon Valley rumor mill says the …
1 year 26 weeks ago
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A guy named Paul Truong created this arcade-style space shooting game -- with a Gmail theme! He did it to learn how to create interesting apps with HTML5. …
1 year 26 weeks ago
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Commented on Analyst says Android tablets will beat iPad. Is he right?
For the four reasons I specified.
1 year ago
Commented on Analyst says Android tablets will beat iPad. Is he right?
For the four reasons I specified.
1 year ago
Commented on What to do with your Google 'Social Circle'
Thank you, Franklin. Unfortunately, the service I used to deliver The Raw Feed blog made changes that stopped service. However, you can still subscribe to The Raw Feed blog by going to the web page http://therawfeed.com/ and clicking on "Subscribe to this posterous" on the right side. Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience! Mike
2 years ago
Commented on Google strikes back at Apple, releases new Google Voice for iPhone
Here's the correct URL for getting the new Web app for Google Voice on iPhone: http://www.google.com/mobile/voice/
2 years ago
Commented on Dispatch from Anywhere, USA
Wonderful! Thank you for your post and link. Mike
2 years ago
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