Bob Morris on Aug 3, 2011, 10:28 pm 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 [...] Bob Morris on Aug 3, 2011, 2:45 pm 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. [...] Bob Morris on Aug 1, 2011, 2:59 pm 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 [...] Bob Morris on Jul 30, 2011, 6:45 am (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 [...] Bob Morris on Jul 25, 2011, 6:45 am 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 [...] Bob Morris on Jul 21, 2011, 2:56 pm 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 [...] Bob Morris on Jul 20, 2011, 12:55 pm 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 [...] Bob Morris on Jul 18, 2011, 11:30 am 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 [...] Bob Morris on May 22, 2011, 6:50 am 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 [...] Bob Morris on Apr 17, 2011, 6:15 am 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, [...] | Independent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues |
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