Google has now launched Google Doctype which, in their words, is Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers
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What sets this apart from other “how-to’s” is the fact you can log in using your Google account and add to the information.
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Google has now acquired GrandCentral and will be offering the functionality free with other Google online apps. GrandCentral lets you have a single number that combines all your other numbers (mobile, home, & work). So you can give your GrandCentral number out and then screen calls or use it to listen to voice mail online, record calls and import your address book. You can also set when or for whom a certain number will be called. It was extremely easy to setup and the call to verify the account happened less than a second after I clicked "go" on the web site. GrandCentral also has a mobile component and with Google's Android this could be a great integration. Now I've set this up I'll be kicking the tires and see how best this suits me.
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As it's my birthday today I bring you just one link but, a pretty important one.
Google's Social Graph API.
In the past I've written about microformats and some potential uses, but now along comes one of the biggest forces on the web with a way to start bringing all these pieces of content together.
Watch the video to see the basic premise behind this and then try not to think of things you could start doing with this. This also shows that Google has been looking closely at the code we've been putting out as developers...
We currently index the public Web for XHTML Friends Network (XFN), Friend of a Friend (FOAF) markup and other publicly declared connections.Now all of those bits and pieces of microformatted content such as reviews, events, etc. can start to (perhaps) rise in the Google rankings. If something is marked up as a review and it's from someone you know that should be higher in your desired results as some random result.
By using one of the tools already developed you can see who you are connected to. Here's the results for this blog.
As I said towards the end of 2007, I'm looking forward to the advances I thought would happen on the web - I just didn't think I'd see some of them this quick.
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That's right - It looks like the big G is going to be rolling out OpenID for use in Blogger comments.
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So I read Om Malik's post Tuesday about OpenSocial - Google's platform for social networks. Exciting stuff!
Having the day off on Wednesday meant that I missed some shuffling on this story and then today, when details were scheduled to be released, even more players came to the fore when the press conference was moved up.
Google's OpenSocial is a set of commons APIs for use with all social networks that participate. This is different from Facebook who developed their own markup language which does not play with others…at all.
Marc Andreessen has a good screencast showing OpenSocial working on his blog. His Ning network is one of those taking part.
TechCrunch has a piece with the update news release and the new players, including MySpace (abandoning their own markup languauge), LinkedIn and Salesforce.com so this is not just about seeing what your "friends" favorite movie is. This can, and will, impact businesses as well as their employees in and out of the workplace.
Now I haven't seen any chatter about where Social Network Portability fits in, which is a shame, but with open and shared APIs that are based around normal HTML etc. it can't be too far behind.
This is definitely something to keep an eye on over the coming months.
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As most of my developer mates will attest I've drunk deep the microformats Kool-aid. I sometimes feel like a voice in the wilderness, especially when I get asked by a non-developer, to point out big name that is using them.
Well no longer.
Enter stage-left Google! That's right, the big G has now rolled out hCard support in Google Maps. This is great news for everyone, not just us enthusiasts, but, here's the thing. They don't seem to work correctly. At least not for me.
The Google post suggests using Operator or Tails, both of which I have in my Firefox but neither work in the most recent version of Flock. No biggy, as I just found LeftLogic's bookmarklet but when I test Google Maps with it I got this (see image)
- rubbish.
Okay. Lets try the suggested add-ons in Firefox. The same. Nothing of value could be exported to Outlook.
Now my initial feeling is great disappointment. Is it the extensions; my browser set-up or did Google not code these as they should? I don't know. But if it's the latter this could be a great blow to the adoption of these. If Google can't get it right why should we (smaller development companies) bother?
I'm hoping this is a glitch. I'll try tomorrow and look for more examples on blogs etc. but with adoption of microformats directly into the browsers around the corner I hope that it is just me. I'm 100% behind microformats but I still feel a little lonely.
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Use Google for all your searching? Concerned about the environment? If the answer to both of those is yes then you need to try Blackle.
Apparently it takes more enegy to display a white screen than a black one so the people at Heap Media created Blackle which delivers the same results from Google but on a black background. As of writing this 123,591.010 Watt hours had been saved.
They make use of the Google custom search engine (which is something that Optiem has done for certain clients) but take it in an interesting direction by tailoring it specifically to a certain set of internet users.
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My blog post that mentions the story of the 40Gb per second connection is number 1 in Google for the term "40Gb per second".
Not bad out of 47,000 results - I'm chuffed to bits :-)
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Seems quite a few things happening in the mobile world at the moment. Of course the iPhone launch a little while ago and already people are developing and tweaking their products to suit. eBuddy on iPhone is one so you can now IM all your friends using this IM aggregator on your new iPhone. Of course we had the blending of the iPhone which caused bandwidth issues for the blendee, but I assume the selling of the blended iPhone on eBay will help Blendtec out with the cost a bandwidth upgrade.
For those of us without iPhone's you can still send Items to your Google Calendar from your Phone which cool but what Google giveth, Google taketh away - introducing AdSense for Mobile.
Though I love to keep up with the mobile web, I don't use it at all. My pay-as-you-go Motorola invariably runs out of money, battery or both before I realise it. Maybe when some Far-Eastern company releases an 80Gb iPhone knock-off with a $20/month unlimited plan I can be an early adopter.
The NLPC has released a pdf which shows there are hundreds of full length movies and TV series available to watch on Google Video. Has the removal of a specific length for content turned Google into the next torrent client? Those available include:
Well if you don't work at Google, probably not much. There's been a lot of speculation about this algorithm in the past and Smashing Magazine have posted a great article all about PageRank on their blog this week.
It's great reference material and ties up quite a few loose threads about this particular bit of SEO. An updated PDF will be available from them soon, with corrections from comments made after this post went live.
You can see more of my SEO bookmarks at Ma.gnolia.
I'm the Director of Emerging Technologies at Optiem, an interactive marketing firm based in Cleveland, Ohio.
I'm British. Love spicy food. Live and work in the US and have been "on the web" for over 10 years now.
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