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Google I/O Coverage - Part Three

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Google Apps Engine
Some quick answers to what Google Apps Engine offers, and why you might want to care about it.
A few months ago, Joyent (and Dell, and Facebook) announced free hosting (for a year) to budding application developers. These free servers were designed to scale and help developers who had applications which “took off” in [...]


SMX Coverage, Sorta

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

I was at SMX Advanced in Seattle basically to see some friends, and to discuss with a few trusted folks about my upcoming year. I didn’t really attend sessions, and as someone who didn’t attend sessions I discovered something. There were alot of people who didn’t attend sessions, but were there just to interact with [...]


Google I/O Coverage - Part Two

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

There was so much put out at Google I/O that it will likely take a while to discuss all my notes on it.
On the Google gadget front I learned an interesting thing (and also got a sweet Google code tshirt) at the visualization desk….
 There is a Google visualization gadget directory. Neato.
Also there has been extensive additions [...]


Google and Geo-Data

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Google has announced a new official blog for Geo-data. They also announced in their latest “friends” newsletter a significant feat…
Also, this month, we introduced rooftop geo-coding for 50
million homes and businesses in the U.S., which significantly improves
mapping accuracy. You’ll see that address searches in Google Maps will
now often return results with pinpoint accuracy.
There are a [...]


SocialMedia.com had a Session at Google I/O

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Update: My history of SocialMedia.com contained some factual errors, and I was called on it and corrected. I am taking out the part I was wrong about and will add the corrections I received to the end of this post.
SocialMedia.com had a session at Google I/O, a developer conference.
Think about that.
SocialMedia.com have an extraordinary amount of data. [...]


Google I/O Coverage - Part One

Friday, May 30th, 2008

By some miracle I was awake when this conference began at 8AM (ouch), and I was impressed by the keynote. I am happy I made it to see it, I was thinking of skipping it.
Keynote Speech
The keynote, as I said was pretty good. In it, Google products were highlighted, but the real crowd pleaser was when [...]


Google I/O Tomorrow!

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

I will be in San Francisco tomorrow for Google I/O. I know I will like it already because they have asked me for my t-shirt size
Any goings on over the next couple of days in San Fran? (I will go to the Google party on the 28th, but other than that…). I am [...]


My upcoming events

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

I will be leaving the trail to attend a few things in the next three weeks. I hope to see you there, and also this will be the window of opportunity to get some face time with me if I am working on your projects. Contact me asap to arrage meetings, here is where I [...]


Google Gadgets Get Social

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Quick overview of some of the features announced today by Google concerning Google gadgets social aspects including a developer iGoogle sandbox and Open Social support for iGoogle gadgets.
One of the major reasons that Facebook applications spread like wildfire is because they are seen by friends on other friends profile pages, or are listed in updates, [...]


Widget Spam Definitions

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Hi, this is just an open letter to Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask spam teams.
I will be speaking in depth about SEO and widgets at a couple of upcoming conferences and highlighting some of the more “dangerous” behaviors that can lead to spam trouble within widgets.
I have sent an email to Matt Cutts and I hope he sees it [...]