I have been playing with Google+ since its debut last week. Its amazing how much folks are discussing a new social network, myself included. There have been many reviews on the web, including my own, but none have mentioned what I think is a very bold photos related feature. Google+ apps users are automatically having [...]
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Google+ photos and automatic uploading
Posted by Eric Friedman on July 5, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/07/05/google-photos-and-automatic-uploading/
Cloud based documents
Cloud based document editing and viewing simply make more sense. Google understands this well and introduced their office suite to the next generation of email users (gmail) to their offering with a very simple, yet effective way by including a “view” link next to the dreaded “download” link in any viewable document. This was no [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on March 21, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/03/21/cloud-based-documents/
The Google Superbowl ad
Google aired its first ever Superbowl ad using a video that resonated with many folks called Parisian Love. The video is embedded below. Search Engine Land has an excellent write up of all the details, including the fact that it had over 1MM views before the event – will be interesting to see how much [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on February 8, 2010
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2010/02/08/the-google-superbowl-ad/
Google Zeitgeist 2009
I love looking at the data disclosed in the yearly Google Zeitgeist and the 2009 data is no exception. I seemed to have missed posting about it last year, but mentioned the 2007 Zeitgeist. Below are some interesting lists I found from the latest data. Internet Memes of 2009 under Entertainment 1. kanye west 2. [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on December 1, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/12/01/google-zeitgeist-2009/
Does Page Rank matter?
Image via CrunchBase When consulting with companies about “how their website is doing” one of the first things people checkout is the Google PR or Page Rank of the site. To check the PR of your site officially you have to install the Google browser tool bar which will show you a small green bar [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on November 12, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/11/12/does-page-rank-matter/
Google Dashboard
Image via CrunchBase The amount of services I use through Google is now summed up in a simple dashboard showing everything. They sum it up as transparency, choice, and control which is a nice way of softening the realization of how much data Google actually collects about you. Here are the services they list and [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on November 6, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/11/06/google-dashboard/
Google Music
Image via CrunchBase Google announced the ability to search, find, and play music via their search experience tonight. This is a huge business development boon by the companies involved and a major kudos goes to Imeem, MySpacePandora, LaLa, and Rhapsody. This also seems like a big win for the record labels. Below is a video [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on October 28, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/10/28/google-music/
Thoughts on Google Wave
Google unleashed the first round of invites to Google Wave today to around 100,000 people and naturally being a web geek I signed up early and got into the “preview” (which seems synonymous with “beta”) Below is a great video example explaining Wave The general idea behind Wave is that it was invented to answer [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on September 30, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/09/30/thoughts-on-google-wave/
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