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Google just added collaborative drawings to Google Docs

April 25, 2010

With Google drawings, you can create and collaborate on flow charts, design diagrams, and other types of drawings. You can also chat with other editors from within Google drawings, publish drawings as images, or download drawings to your computer. To get started, just go to your Docs list, click Create new and select Drawings. via [...]

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Well when you think about the price of privacy that way…

February 17, 2010

Also worth considering: We charge $99 per year for a MobileMe subscription. Google gives you the same stuff and all they ask for is, um, permission to totally invade your privacy and to “monetize” (God I hate that word) your personal information. You think your personal information is worth less than $99 a year? Then [...]

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Google Code Blog: Announcing Google Chart Tools

February 13, 2010

Whether you need a simple line chart, an interactive Geo Map or a complex Motion Chart , Google can help you add live charts to your web page using our Chart and Visualization APIs. Both of these APIs are free and simple to use, however they each have distinct advantages: This looks interest in, but [...]

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The Google Exposure

February 12, 2010

Think of advertising as oil and Google as one big emirate. What happens when the oil runs out? Maybe it already is. Citing a “Natural Born Clickers” study by ComScore and Starcoma, Ad Age last year reported that “the number of people online who click display ads has dropped 50% in less than two years, [...]

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Facebook XMPP chat

February 11, 2010

Chat with your Facebook friends right from your desktop, using any instant messaging software. XMPP Facebook support. Now thats an interesting move. It looks to me like Facebook is the business model that Google didn’t see coming. via Facebook Chat. Everywhere. | Facebook.

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A Note on Google Social Search

February 3, 2010

All the information that appears as part of Google Social Search is published publicly on the web — you can find it without Social Search if you really want to. What we’ve done is surface that content together in one single place to make your results more relevant. The way we do it is by [...]

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