I've criticized the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service before but now the privacy policy is being updated and Google is doing the right thing and notifying users of its different services. With a month as advance notice, the policy goes into effect October 3rd, 2010. Google states the changes are to make the policies "more transparent and understandable". A significant … [Read more...]
AVG Reports Risks of Web Browsing by Country
AVG, a popular antivirus vendor, released a report showing the risk of web browsing in different countries. There are a number of stats that AVG pulls from the data, which is generated from its customers around the world. That might also leave it open for discussion why the imaginary borders matter and how they change statistical tracking. Different cultures might be more … [Read more...]
Use WordPress to Create a Searchable Archive of Your Tweets
"Once you put it out on the Web, it's always exists." "Oh yeah, well then why can't I find what I'm looking for?" If you put anything of significance on Twitter or just want to keep a copy of everything for yourself, you'll probably want to keep a copy of your Tweets. Between Twitter's downtime or "Older tweets are temporarily unavailable.", off-loading from Twitter seems … [Read more...]
Google Updates Google Calendar’s Look, Adds Scheduling Assistant
Google Calendar updates are rolling out. Announced yesterday, the changes include updating the repeating event editor, a scheduling assistant to find free times for meeting participants, and for Google Apps, you're now able to set working hours. The update also includes, we're told, significant updates to the code behind the scenes to improve performance and consistency. … [Read more...]
Google Makes A Newscast Out of Google Trends
Google has started a channel on YouTube to cover the hottest Google Search trends for the past week. The channel uses Google Trends and Google Insights for Search as their source of information. Here's the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNxXVWag7fc You can find the weekly updating channel at www.youtube.com/googlebeat. … [Read more...]