Google has recently added Gtalk bots that can do translations to various languages, mostly available with Google Translate. While I’m all for helping people understand each other better (even though there are certain complains regarding the quality of translation), I think this functionality could have implemented simpler. Disclaimer: I haven’t tried it out myself, I’ve … Continue reading Simpler Google Talk translations?
Here is a quote from Scott Rosenberg’s insightful post, titled “Clash of titanic business-press cliches” (emphasis is mine): Are Microsoft and Google in conflict? Of course. They have fundamentally different visions of where computing’s headed — visions that the Times article, by Steve Lohr and Miguel Helft, ably lays out. But it’s not as if … Continue reading On the battles of the software industry
Web Worker Daily has published the results and some of the submissions for their “2008 will be the year of the web worker because …” contest. It’s an interesting read. To some, those postings could sound like a bunch of nonsense from a few lunatics. And to be honest with you, that’s not far from … Continue reading 2008 will be the year of the web worker because …
In my recent post about Google Reader and Google Talk integration I mentioned that it would be nice to have a possibility to control friends’ names and pictures. Similar to the way I can do so in Gmail. Having things a bit more centralized would be nice. Obviously, Google realizes that. They are some of … Continue reading Google Profile coming up
One of the cool things that can be done with the Google Reader (now that it integrates with Gtalk contacts), is proxying of items from one set of people to another via a common connection. Consider, for example, my contact list with Person A and Person B, both of who don’t know each other, but … Continue reading Passing forward with Google Reader