Entries Tagged as 'google'
Gmail Labs hopefully the key to rapid mail innovation
So it was with much excitement yesterday that Google announced it’s then impending Gmail Labs project. Basically it’s a place for Googlers to easily get their 20% Gmail time in front of Gmail users quickly and easily. The feedback loop is tightened by providing each lab project a Google Group. This is, on the face [...]
Categories: google
My App Engine failings
Sigh. I have two ideas that I’m trying to turn into ???????? ????? ????????App Engine apps. Both have to do with FriendFeed, both tend to make several requests to the FriendFeed API per hit - so they are probably relatively unusual for App Engine. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem likely that they will see the light [...]
Oh, Google Android.
Just a quick note - in my absence, Google seems to have had a conference in which they talked about Android. Now, I’m reasonably skeptical about Android, but it seems to be coming along well - so I hope that I’m wrong about this and it makes as big a splash as some folks think [...]
Urlfetch redirects, an App Engine mis-documentation
So I’ve spent a couple evenings working on a little App Engine project and butting heads with the urlfetch module. What I’ve been trying to do is discover what the end location is for a 3xx redirect. I finally figured it out, to my chagrin, and thought I’d post it up in case anyone else [...]
Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook & the Web
Anyone else getting tired of all this M&A foreplay going on right now? Microsoft and Yahoo! No! Yahoo with Google? Huh. Microsoft and a little bit of Yahoo but no Google? Maybe… Microsoft and Facebook and maybe some Yahoo and definitely no Google? What. Ever. Seriously, just sh*t or get off the pot.
The latest [...]
One day with App Engine and Python
So I finally decided to play around with Python and App Engine a little - had a little FriendFeed project that’s been kicking around my brain for a bit. Bear in mind I’ve done exactly one project in Python and that was over a decade ago, so, you know. This is all pretty much the [...]
OpenSocial, guess it made it
Well, ok. I was wrong, I was wrong and the internet was right. I was an OpenSocial skeptic. I hated the way Google launched the platform with a lot of sound and fury but releasing nothing. Nothing but a bunch of partners and rhetoric. Fortunately this bag of vapor coalesced into some social networking goodness [...]
Categories: facebook · google · social networks
New Google Reader for iPhone beta, nearly perfect!
oh. SNAP. Just came across the reader post launching their new beta iPhone app. So. My iPhone is, more or less, a $400 Google Reader device. Sure it has some kinda other stuff, I’m not really sure what it is, but it definitely spends a lot of time on Reader. You may recall, that I [...]
Google AppEngine & Amazon AWS
Another couple o’ awesome things happened while I wasn’t blogging - Google launched AppEngine and Amazon released the word that they had rolled out persistent storage to a select few and this would become a regular feature. These are both big noise in the world of cloud computing.
An interesting thing about these two services [...]
Categories: amazon · google · hosting · web service · yahoo
FriendFeed v. The latest Google Reader rev
First up, just so’s you knows where I’m coming from, I love FriendFeed and I love Google Reader. One of the things that’s been frustrating me a bit with Google Reader is the inability to add a comment to the things I share - I mean, sharing something is works but it seems kinda naked [...]
Categories: friendfeed · google · rss · social networks
