To do: switch on Labs features in Google Apps By Nic Price on 9 December 2008 — 1 min read I recently switched over from standard google mail, calendar etc. to make more use of and get my head round Google Apps. The first thing I noticed was that I’d lost some features I’d enabled on the standard gmail. I’d been using: Settings > General > Browser Connection > Always use https (for tighter security)... More
links for 2007-11-29 By delicious on 29 November 2007 — 1 min read What the Google Intranet Looks Like Google inside. Via tracking “intranet” on Twitter. (tags: google intranet) More
Keeping up to date with East Dulwich on the internet: Part 1 – Google Alerts By Nic Price on 16 November 2007 — 1 min read How do you keep on top of everything everyone’s saying about East Dulwich, or any other subject, online? In this series of short articles I’m going to run through a few things you can set up quickly and for free to follow what people are saying about the things you’re interested in. This article looks... More
Blog Readability Test By Nic Price on 9 November 2007 — 1 min read I’ve just been having a bit of fun with this… The Blog Readability Test. What level of education is required to understand your blog? – as seen on David Cushman’s site. Apparently you require a “high school” education to read this blog. I haven’t dug around to see what, if any, algorithm is being used... More
Google’s OpenSocial launches By Nic Price on 2 November 2007 — 1 min read Google says “the web is better when it’s social” so it must be true. OpenSocial from Google. Not another social network. Is this a nail in Facebook’s coffin? It’s funny, I’ve become so accustomed to consciously ingnoring google ads on web pages that the little box promoting the opensocial blog on the homepage nearly escaped... More
Size of Google Mail box is now 4358 MB and growing By Nic Price on 24 October 2007 — 1 min read Last week it was 3700 MB or so… That’s a mighty fine amount of free (as in lunch) online data storage. More
Momentarily I can be found! By Nic Price on 4 November 2005 — 1 min read Occasionally I search for my name on the web in the vain hope that one day I will no longer be buried beneath hundreds of thousands of prices for network interface cards (NICs). And to my great astonishment that day has arrived (at least on Google anyway)! I had to capture this as no doubt... More
Google base: another step towards global domination By Nic Price on 2 November 2005 — 1 min read If you add in every small business in the world – and believe me, Google is thinking that way – you can sum up Google’s ambitions in the commercial world as this: the company would like to provide a platform that mediates supply and demand for pretty much the entire world economy. John Battelle in... More
Google reader By Nic Price on 8 October 2005 — 1 min read I’ve been trying out the newly launched Google reader, which I was alerted to via my Bloglines subscription to a Google blog – oh my aren’t we just sooo post-modern 😉 You need a Google account (gmail address) to use it. Like gmail it makes extensive use of ajax for screen-based rather than page-based interactions.... More
Google calendar imminent? By Nic Price on 4 October 2005 — 1 min read I’ve been looking for some open source calendar software to sit alongside my blog for my own personal use and to share if useful one or two event categories with friends and family Having just read that a google calendar might be with us within a month, I might just wait and see what it... More