Awakened Voice

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 [...]

The Associated Press is reporting the Google has bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.
I almost can’t believe this because it seems like YouTube is very vulnerable to lawsuits from the many copyright holders who are being infringed upon as a result of videos hosted on YouTube.
The linked story contains the following quote: “We are [...]

There’s no doubt that some aspects of social media are moving very fast. New and updated tools, products and services are coming at us on a daily basis. So I should not have been surprised when I opened up Google Reader yesterday to find a completely new interface and a host of new features.
Google’s upgrade [...]

If you get a few moments head over to the Learning Center to have a look at a tutorial on managing RSS feeds with Google Reader.
The Google Reader tool was barely acceptable as an RSS reader when it was first launched but the folks at Google have continued to upgrade the service, making Google Reader [...]

The Google Blog is reporting on some new features for Google Spreadsheets. The new features are nice, including support for the Open Document Format that is used by Star Office and Open Office plus PDF support. I’ve been using Star Office with Google Spreadsheets over the last couple of weeks and have been converting to [...]

I’ve been doing some research on the best way to consume RSS feeds on a mobile device. Dave Winer’s New York Times River is great but you only get summaries of the stories and when you click through it takes you to the NY Times regular website.
Dave has also taken a few select blogs and [...]

The official Google Blog has announced the beta release of version 2 of their toolbar for the Firefox web browser. The most interesting new feature allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds via the toolbar.
According to the Google feature site for the toolbar,”The Toolbar will automatically detect if content of the page you are browsing [...]

MARCH 2008 UPDATE: I wrote this post nearly two years ago and a lot has changed with these systems. I have added updates to reflect the changes in the systems. Updates are in italics.
If you’re just getting into Blogging, RSS and even Podcasting you may want to consider a low risk approach to the matter. [...]

One good reason to start a company blog is that you’re bound to receive additional attention for whatever it is that you do. Blogs (and their associated RSS feeds) are very search engine friendly. So the keywords that appear in the title and description of your blog are likely to do better than your website [...]

Steve Rubel reports that Nike and Google have teamed up to launch an online soccer community called Joga. The site appears to accept Google account info, but upon login you’re very likely to see a “sorry” message. For now the site is invite only. You can request an invite by entering your name and email [...]