After reading Matt’s Twitter blog that he published a couple of weeks ago, I thought I’d take the opportunity to write a follow-up piece about my own experiences with the increasingly popular micro-blogging cum social networking service of the moment.
What I found particularly interesting about Matt’s blog were some of the comments that readers had left. Whilst there aren’t many, what is evident from these comments is something that I’ve noticed on a much larger scale when chatting to friends, family and work associates about the new social networking phenomena – You either love it, or you hate it! More…
I’ve been using Google Chrome as my primary browser for several months now and the one feature that has really impressed me is the omnibox. It’s essentially the browser address bar and default search box combined but it’s more powerful than either on its own.
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During my daily trawl of all things that is web based I found the following on the Techcrunch website.
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We mentioned this morning that Google had entered into the browser market with Chrome, designed to be a lightweight and rapid open source browser. Quite a few of us were looking forward to having a play around with it (I’m actually using it to write this blog!). So I thought it would be a nice idea to get a few people’s thoughts on how they’re finding it so far.
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Cuil, the Internet’s newest Search Engine appears to be taking a bit of a battering as everyone and his dog takes a shufty at what has been described as ‘new technology that can change the competitive dynamics of the Web search market’. More…
Eagle-eyed staff here at Plusnet have spotted one of Google’s Streetview spycars mapping out the streets of Sheffield. As reported in The Register, the car has been previously spotted in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff – there can no be no doubt of Google’s intention to add the UK into their Google Maps’ Streetview.
Anyone not familiar with Streetview might be surprised at how fast and easy it is to use.. and how much detail is shown. Perhaps it won’t be too long then before you can cruise up and down past Plusnet Towers from the comfort of your armchair.
P-j
Update: Be on the lookout for cars that look like this.
Any readers following developments of Google Lively (you’d be hard-pressed not have noticed that we are with our PlusNet ‘Lively’ Towers) may find this article interesting. Two of the key players in the virtual worlds industry have published their opinions of Google’s foray into the scene on their personal blogs
Electric Sheep Company CEO Sibley Verbeck had this to say in his blog, “Lively requires the installation of a plug-in, which even the most enticing ad just won’t get that many mainstream users to install in order to interact with a brand on-line.”
What do you reckon? How off-putting is the the fact that you’ve got to install a plug-in just to have a dabble?
P-j
Unlike Linden Labs’ Second Life here’s no ‘virtual economy’ here and the amount of customisation available is still fairly minimal (no user-generated objects can as yet be uploaded), but you can still have a lot of fun with Google’s new virtual ‘Lively’ worlds.
It’s free to download and install*, and pretty easy to get started with. You can embed your room into a webpage (see below) and even play YouTube videos on plasma TVs and movie screens (although that does get a bit tiresome after the second play-through).
So, created in 45 minutes whilst sat in the sunshine in the real world, here’s a virtual PlusNet Towers.. Come and say ‘Hi’ why don’t you?
P-j
* Windows only I’m afraid. And you’ll need to register a Google login if you’ve not already got one to get started.
Last Friday, Google replaced their colourful upper-case ‘G’ icon with a more subtle lower-case ‘g’ icon. This has upset a lot of users who prefer the old one. Personally I don’t really mind but what I found interesting is that the change has really impacted my browsing. More…
At PlusNet we’ve made a bunch of long videos (around 20mins each!) and it would really help to be able to place bookmarks within those videos so people can quickly jump to sections that interest them.
I’ve just had a brief look at the common video sharing websites (Vimeo, YouTube, DailyMotion, Google Video and Flickr’s new offering, but haven’t found any that support it.
This would be really useful!
Any one know any that support it?
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