Daniel Iversen » Google

RIP Google Wave

daniel — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:08:04 +0000

RIP Google Wave - http://nexle.dk/l/e9z …. Come on @google!!, you should have kept pushing through with Wave – such a bold vision. Of course it was early days – maybe most people didn’t quite value or understand the potential yet?.. At least some(/all?) of it is open source but we needed a giant to push it through. Shame shame.

Why did Google “accidentally” steal/sniff WiFi information?

daniel — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:50:59 +0000

Why did Google “accidentally” steal/sniff wifi information? My thought: to get their location API working! Wikipedia article on how the Geolocation API works in HTML5 http://nexle.dk/l/nhu .. its quite obvious isn’t it?

Also, interesting company “Skylook”, from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless);

Skyhook Wireless (formerly known as Quarterscope) is a Boston-based company that has developed a technology for determining geographical location using Wi-Fi as the underlying reference system. Using the MAC addresses of nearby wireless access points and proprietary algorithms, WPS can determine the position of a mobile device within 20–30 meters.

and..

At the Macworld Conference & Expo in January 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that both the iPhone and iPod Touch will use Skyhook’s WPS as the primary location engine for Google Maps and other applications.^[5] Skyhook WPS is also available on the Apple iPad, launched in March 2010.

HTML5 (and the great demo on http://html5rocks.com) rocks!

daniel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:27:37 +0000

http://html5rocks.com rocks! – view the HTM5 “interactive presentation” in a modern broser – wow technology! #html5

My favs in HTML5?….

The top 3 things I love with HTML5 in prioritised order I think are;

Geo location API
Local storage and offline cache APIs
Notification API

Not too excited about the CSS stuff and the crazy web sockets stuff (might change my mind on that) and not too hot on the HTML5 video stuff either (heck we only need that because Apple suck sometimes)

Android overtook iPhone sales, Google tablet coming http://bit.ly/96Oscv !

daniel — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:12:11 +0000

….enter Google’s true mobile communications, informations and entertainment rampage!!

Google approaching 10% of Net’s traffic, paying nothing for YouTube bandwith.

daniel — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:42 +0000

Google approaching 10% of Net’s traffic, paying nothing for YouTube bandwith. Great #Wired article http://nexle.dk/l/nqo

WordPress blogs now supports Pubsubhubbub protocol

daniel — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:02:16 +0000

WordPress blogs now supports Pubsubhubbub protocol – this is an important step that will lead to new and interesting innovative websites (you don’t have to spend millions $$ to do large scale near-realtime aggregation).

Google’s 10 golden design principles – always worth remembering

daniel — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:41:14 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/68e8zq

Mobile ‘Poor mans GPS’ in action – just the start!

daniel — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:28:26 +0000

Not 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”

daniel — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:36:17 +0000

In 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;

http://robinsloan.com/epic/

Create your “own” search engine with Google..?

daniel — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:49:25 +0000

As 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