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Google Can & Will Shut Off Your Account Without Warning

If you’re an avid Google user, you may wish to read this post sitting down. Chris Brogan documents the sorry tale of Nick Saber’s complete and utter denial by Google. After returning from lunch, Saber was unable to access his Gmail, Google Talk, Google Docs, or Picasa–and he was a paying Google customer! When he tried [...]

Five Lightweight Apps for Web Trainers and Consultants

Teaching people how to use new tools on the internet is hard. Learning through experience is the most effective method, but it's slow. More and more of us are finding ourselves teaching other people how to use new web apps and services - sometimes professionally. Though you, elite readers, might consider getting excited about apps that are a year or two old to be painfully behind the times, the fact is that there is huge demand for training in use and application of web apps old and new. Below w...

Best "Sorry We're Closed" Sign Ever

Talk about re-writing history! I hope they continue the story when they re-open. I'm on pins and needles waiting for the conclusion! Source

Alex Beckstead, maker of Paperback Dreams

Local artists + fine baked goods + free admission = your Friday night plans. And good ones. Alex Beckstead will be screening his new film "Paperback Dreams", all about Bay Area independent booksellers, at the Oakland Museum tonight. Yes, there will be cookies and good times. Read on for Alex's take on the best local book shops, Sleepless in Seattle, and slow culture. 7:30pm at the Oakland Musuem. Free of charge. Outdoors on the museum grounds--bring a blanket. Dessert provided. Favorite local b...

Google acquires Omnisio for video annotations

Omnisio lets people add annotations and captions to videos.(Credit: Omnisio) Apparently Google concluded it could use a little help with its own YouTube annotation technology:the company said Wednesday it's acquired Omnisio, a start-up that lets people add annotations to video. Google announced the acquisition on its YouTube blog Wednesday but didn't disclose terms. "We're big fans of anything that lets people interact with online video and gives the YouTube community the chance to express them...

Google reveals scope of Web-crawling task

It's a pity the National Security Agency can't talk about its computational challenges, because it's leaving a lot of the boasting rights to Google. (Credit: Paul Ford) In a blog posting on Friday the company shared some detail about the challenges of one aspect of its search operation, the Web indexing and processing that must take place before the results are delivered to users. The short version: Google has no choice but to think big. First comes surfing. "We start at a set of well-connected...

Scripps: Renegotiating Shopzilla's Google Agreement; Networks Not For Sale

Scripps' (NYSE: SSP) big comparison services Shopzilla and uSwitch continued on a decent turnaround path this quarter. On the company's conference call, management said that for the year they expect $8-$10 million in profit for the two services. CFO Joseph NeCastro warned, however, that Shopzilla's sponsored links arrangement with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) expires on October 31st: "We are in active discussions with them right now, but depending on where we end up, we could see some impact at the begin...

How is your website holding up against search engine optimization?

You can't attend a marketing conference or talk to anyone about their company's website without hearing the words "Search Engine Optimization" or SEO. But the truth is, many business owners or marketing professionals can't define what SEO is all about, beyond that when done well, it will result in an increase in ranking on Google. They also don't have any idea what factors contribute to SEO success or failure. Well guess what...we don't have to understand the complex algorithms. Heck, I'm pretty...

Run Two Google Talk Clients Simultaneously on your Desktop

Shared by Whole Wheat Radio For Randy and Randy. I'm not using Google talk but thought you both might have need for this. This simple workaround may help if you maintain two different Google Accounts and have to chat with Google Talk friends who are spread across both these accounts. The desktop edition of Google Talk comes in two flavors - the standard client and the labs edition. The trick is that you can install both these clients along side each other and even run them simultaneously using d...

Google and knowledge management

[talk-share-learn] and as appearing in this Video proposed by Adrian Pike, Google is getting closer and closer to amplifying its core activities, the Search, with some Knowledge management flavour. Google screenshot.