Google sites and products I use regularly

Adsense Adwords Analytics (hit monitoring for Polizeros and my website clients) Calendar (it sends me text messages for appointments, etc.) Chat Chrome browser Feedburner (RSS feed for Polizeros) Local business (For website clients) Google+ Gmail Maps News Reader (I read 300+ feeds in it)

In other words, Google is basically indispensable for my online [...]

You can now make phone calls inside GMail

Calls within the US and Canada are free until the end of the year. (Not available in all countries yet.)

Mobile developers think Google+ will challenge Facebook

In addition to Google Plus’ impact on mobile growth and adoption, developers also said they believed Google Plus could catch up to Facebook in the long-term. [...]

Google page speed service will basically host your website

The new Google Page Speed Service will take data from your website, optimize it for speed, then serve to users from their servers all over the planet. Your website still exists where it is, but you point the DNS to Google. So, Google is the only site that actually reads your site and anyone [...]

Google+ is going to be huge

(This is the first in a series of posts this weekend about Google)

Google got it right the third time around with their new social networking product Google+. I find myself spending more time on it and less on Facebook and Twitter. Why? Because it just flows better. It’s easy to find topics and [...]

Google+ as a primary news source, and more

I first learned about the Norway bombing and murders on Google+. So did Scoble. So did lots of people. Images and videos appear as part of the feed, unlike Twitter, and there’s no 140 character limit. On Facebook, what you see is filtered, so you may not see all of someone’s posts. This doesn’t [...]

Google+ gaining momentum

Google has acquires a social networking company specializing in group management.

“You can guess what’s next for Google+”, says Leo LaPorte (on Google+, of course)

Comment by Brian Turner

Sounds like a nice acquisition by Google. Let’s see where it goes. Keep in mind that Google is treating G+ with a make-or-break mindset, so it’s [...]

Do you google naughty / dangerous / political stuff?

Well then, get thee to Google Web History and delete your search history. You did know that Google carefully saves all your searches, right? All your little quirks will be there, staring you in the face. “Naked midget tap dancers wrestling in Jello” indeed.

But you can erase them, and even tell Google to stop [...]

Google+. Google gets social networking right this time

Google had two abortive attempts at social networking, Buzz and Wave. Both got a bit of buzz then disappeared beneath the waves. Google+ is different. It’s fun to use, powerful, has features Twitter and Facebook don’t, and perhaps most importantly, shows no sign of slowing down a few weeks after it was introduced.

The [...]

Is Google becoming a power utility too?

In addition to installing 1-gigabit-per-second broadband in Kansas City, Kansas, Google is teaming with Kansas City Power & Light to expand the service across the state and to Kansas City, Missouri.

Google is also investing in a project to build 350 miles of transmission line off the Atlantic from Virginia to New Jersey to [...]

Google invests in California mobile biofuel refinery

CoolPlanetBiofuels has received $20 million in funding from Google Ventures and other venture capital funds. The Camarillo-based business is developing innovative mobile refineries that turn biomass, agricultural leftovers, and wood processing byproducts into useful biofuel.

This is quite separate from biofuel originating from corn, which has deservedly come under attack for being expensive, unworkable, [...]