
Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Google’s 10 golden design principles – always worth remembering
Friday, August 21st, 2009Mobile ‘Poor mans GPS’ in action – just the start!
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Not sure when it happened but Google launched a new beta version of its Google Maps for Mobiles with a feature “My Location”. This feature allows you to see your approximate location on a map via a mobile phone without using GPS. It calculates your location based on the nearest phone towers. Its nothing new but its exciting that the technology is starting to get used some more. While the Google thing works on many platforms, the Java integration of this technology is under JSR-179 “Location API” and there is a pretty cool article about the Java Location API here. This is just the beginning! This technology over the next year is going to get so hot!! Imagine the advertising potential as well as the opportunity for new and exciting business ideas around social computing etc.. How exciting.
EPIC 2014 – “The Googlezon video”
Monday, August 27th, 2007In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned. What happened to the news?
If you have not seen this yet, have a look.. quite amusing;
Create your “own” search engine with Google..?
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006As we know Google are very good at making people work for them for free and they’ve done it again. You can now create your “own” search engine searching only your topics of interest and with your look and feel and even “tags”/filters.. I created one to test it and it searches Java resources… my link is;
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009593767841622448699%3Aejcfp_zyjty











