Awakened Voice

Many people were wondering what Google was doing with Jot, the wiki service that Google acquired in 2006. The answer came last week with the launch of Google Sites. According to Google, Google Sites, “…was designed to allow you to easily create a network of sites and share them with whomever you choose.”
The response to [...]

I noticed today that Gmail has an updated the functionality that allows you to link to other web pages and email addresses when composing an email in HTML mode. Previously when you clicked the link icon in the menu bar you would get a simple pop up box asking you for the link address. [...]

How can I tell? Take a look at Google’s announcement today of big investments in clean energy. Big Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins also recently announced that Al Gore would join their ranks to help spur investments in clean energy startups.
We are more than two years off from News Corp.’s purchase of MySpace [...]

News out today that blog search engine Technorati has a radical new look to their site. It’s true. People are talking about it on their blogs today.
According to Technorati CEO Dave Sifry, “…the world has changed.” We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto.
I think this is a good move by Technorati in general business terms. They [...]

Chances are that if you’re a small business or an individual that you won’t have the time or the money to build out your own video portal. Fear not. You have several viable options that offer free hosting and bandwidth. All of these services allow you to embed video players within your own site so [...]

The new Blogger has been out of beta for a little while now so recently I decided to switch some of my podcast sites based on Blogger over from the old version to the new and improved version.
Despite multiple assurances on the screen that everything would be okay with the switch over something has happened [...]

I find myself using a suite of mobile Google applications on my Nokia 6620 phone more and more these days. In fact, last night the Google Maps Mobile helped me get around San Francisco in a pinch.
The mobile version of Google Maps is a better alternative to a paper map in my opinion. No need [...]

Now that YouTube has been fully acquired by Google I think they should aspire to a high level of service. After all they’re no longer a cash strapped startup anymore. Heck, in terms of internet startups they are now filthy rich. So they should have the money to make their feature set a bit more [...]

Mark Cuban is serving up an an interesting post that purports to give us an inside look on the Google/YouTube deal.
[tags]Social Media, Video, Google, YouTube, Mark Cuban[/tags]

I don’t think I’ve written anything about pinging on this blog yet. So now that Google has added the ability for you to ping their blog search engine this is as good a time as any to write about it.
For those of you not in the know on pinging I’ll provide a basic explanation. Certain [...]