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The New Google Chrome Webstore

The New Google Chrome Webstore

The Google Chrome team has officially launched the Google Chrome Webstore. Head on over and take a look! http://chrome.google.com/webstore And then here is what it looks like inside the actual browser. Incoming search terms:www googlechromewebstoregooglechromewebstoregoogle webstorechrome webstorewww googlechrome comhttps://chrome google com/webstorevvvvnew chrome webstoregooglechromewebstore comwebstore googlewww googlechromewebtore com

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Bye-bye GOOG-411

What started out as a great idea, ended just like many other projects. Anyone remember the GE phone that had a GOOG-411 button built directly into it? That obviously will no longer work, that’s unfortunate. Google is describing the GOOG-411 project as something was a stepping stone to better projects, such as Voice Search, Voice [...]

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Maryland Education “Goes Google”

A quick snippet from the Google Corporate Blog, Today we’re happy to announce that The Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC) will make Google Apps for Education available to 1.4 million students in the state. MEEC is comprised of the University System of Maryland, Maryland Higher Education Commission and Maryland Department of Education, and provides software [...]

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Google Apps Marketplace

It was inevitable, it just had to happen. Google Apps for Business has opened their own marketplace to exchange apps. It basically just looks like a place for companies to pimp out their services to Google Apps Business users. I’ll keep poking around, but I have doubts I’ll find something actually useful.

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Google Drops IE6 Support

In a recent turn of events, Google is dropping support for IE6 among other browsers as well. Here is what Google Apps recently sent out: Dear Google Apps admin,​ In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser [...]

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Google Latitude with Location History and Alerts

Google Latitude with Location History and Alerts

Google Latitude is introducing a few new and sought after features. Location history and alerts. Google Latitude Location History This new feature will allow you to see previously checked in locations for your Google Latitude account. Here’s what it looks like: Google Latitude Alerts The other feature launched with this announcement is Google Latitude alerts. [...]

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Google Is Smarter Than You Think

Google Is Smarter Than You Think

Google is getting smarter and smarter, everyday. Faster than you may realize. Let’s look at this example to see how Google was able to translate what I wanted and what it was able to provide me. I did a search for “mytunes for mac” expecting to find some sort of app to let me steal [...]

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Google Announces the Google Chrome Operating System

The Google Operating System is real. GoogleSystem, written by Alex Chitu, is finally now a public discussion. Alex has been writing on his blog for a number of years, dating back to October 2005, nearly six months longer than I’ve been writing on Google Inside, but for a long time, it was simply just the [...]

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Google Launches GoogleApps Admin Community

Google Launches GoogleApps Admin Community

Google announced this morning on it’s enterprise blog a new community for admins of Google Apps. Here is what Monali Narayanaswami from the Google Apps team has to say about the new product offering, “We wanted to make the site relevant and easy for admins to use, and we also wanted to use Google Apps [...]

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Better Gmail and Calendar for the iPhone

Earlier this week, Google launched enhanced versions of both the Gmail app and the Calendar app for the iPhone. Google is going to the extra mile for Android phones, as I expect they would, while they are keep legacy support for the iPhone to specific versions. “Please note, these web-based mobile products are only available [...]

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Tweet Your Google Calendar

Tweet Your Google Calendar

Twittercal is an awesome integration between Twitter and Google Calendar. There are some easy steps to getting started using Twittercal. Register for a free account Add @gcal as a friend Grant Twittercal access to your Google Calendar Add events via direct messages. ie. d gcal meeting with jonathan dingman tomorrow at 7pm Follow me on [...]

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More Value to Education

Starting at the end of March 2009, Google Enterprise is offering the educational sector some free storage. 10 gigabytes of free storage for Education in Google Apps. As of March 31st, we will be offering 10GB of Google Video free to every Google Education Edition domain. This will give each school the ability to stream [...]

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Syncing Facebook to Google Calendar to the iPhone

Syncing Facebook to Google Calendar to the iPhone

This tutorial will teach you how to synchronize your Facebook events calendar to your Google Calendar and then to your iPhone. First off, you need to have a Facebook account and have events that you are attending. Step 1: Go to http://apps.facebook.com/fbcalendar/. You will see two images as seen below. Click “Allow” to add access [...]

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Is Google Up? Down? Check the Status

Is Google Up?  Down?  Check the Status

Google has launched a status page that will let you see the status of various services they offer. If you click on the image, you will see a larger version of the status report. Then, where you see the little blue “i” you can click and get a more detailed report. This is a great [...]

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Tracking Events in Google Analytics

From “Double Call” to “Single Call” After the initial launch of event tracking, we realized that the two-step process of implementing event tracking in Analytics could be simplified to a single call using the _trackEvent() method. In the initial version of event tracking, your implementation involved two steps: Setting up the object to track and [...]

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