rudyamid on November 24th, 2008 at 10:53 am

Without fail, every time Google releases something, the crowd is all over it.  I’m certainly a fan.  Other than the usual Google search, I use a lot of their applications on a daily basis.  Google does produce mostly good stuff, but some are just fluff.   Here’s the quick rundown:
Google Usefulness

Life Magazine photo archives on Google [...]

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rudyamid on October 29th, 2008 at 5:59 am

Ever since I attended the JBOSS World User Conference in February 2008, I’ve been getting a lot of junk emails from companies touting “Cloud Computing” technologies.  It’s the latest buzzword in the tech industry.  With big players such as Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, it sure gets a lot of attention.  Essentially, cloud computing is the [...]

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rudyamid on October 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm

Ever wonder if your site made it in Google back when they first started?
Google just put up a nostalgia page featuring their oldest index.   It’s a full featured search page, returning the crawled web pages in the year 2001.  To my surprise, searching for my last name revealed my good old domain name as [...]

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rudyamid on July 16th, 2008 at 11:08 am

Lee at Epiblogger pointed me to this neat Google Maps Wordpress Plugin. I had trouble getting it to work initially, but after a few tweaks, I figured it out. In this post, I’m featuring my “Lunch Bits” Editions 1-19 on the map below. Click on an orange marker to see the pop-up info [...]

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rudyamid on September 21st, 2007 at 5:40 pm

Leave it to Google to come up with something cool and useful (and addicting).  The latest is the Google Blogspot Player that lets you browse the latest pictures on blogspot.com, Google’s user blogging site, to quickly figure out what’s out there.   I’m easily entertaintained, so it is fun to discover this and the few hundreds [...]

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