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Do you use Knol, Squidoo and Wikipedia?

Published on 14 January, 2009 in google, online, technology and thoughts. 5 Comments Tags: , , , .

An adage today is that it is not about knowledge, it is about finding and filtering knowledge.

One of the ways to find and filter knowledge is to have someone authoritative do that and presents the result to you in a digestabe quanta of knowledge.

Knol, Squidoo and Wikipedia represent three such approach to presenting knowledge that you can turn to. Each with their interesting ideas and twists to it.

While surfing this afternoon, I first learned about Knol which reminds me of my post about Squidoo before. So I went on to explore closer to see how these user-generated-content sites differ.

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GMail changed favicon

Published on 10 January, 2009 in google and online. 0 Comments

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Refreshed my browser and noticed that GMail is a new favicon. In fact a number of Google properties seem to have changed to this new favicon.

I rather prefer each site to have their own favicon, with many tabs open, it is easier to spot the tab visually.

Moving Pegasus & ThunderBird archives to GMail

Published on 7 January, 2009 in google, online, technology and tips to share. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Storing everything, especially email in the cloud had been all the buzz lately.

Since moving to GMail I have not use a email client again. Going back to email client like ThunderBird seems like a step backward. No more worry about migrating email archive when changing computer, reinstalling system. No more backing up and copies of backup of different clients lying around. Whether working at home, office or cafes, it is just a single logon.

Well then the last step to complete the cloud migration is to move the outstanding archives backup dating almost a decade ago into the cloud. And I did it last weekend.

Here are some notes for those intenting to move existing Pegasus Mail or ThunderBird email archive into GMail.

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Playing with Google Friend Connect

Published on 17 December, 2008 in adadvantage, google, ideas and online. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

Google Friend Connect allows a website to quickly add social features with any coding. It is really easy to put up the little gadget you see on the right – just copy 2 files and a piece of code to where it should appears.
If you have an OpenID, why not join up? There is nothing to use really. But it would be nice to put some names to the visitors after running this blog for 2 years.
The member gadget fits nicely into the 2-column spanning block of AdAdvantage. There are some ideas to revamp this block to better use the space. Will see how it goes.

Google, yet again.

Published on 21 October, 2006 in google and online. 0 Comments

Sometimes I wonder, would Google become the next Microsoft? It seems that Microsoft and Yahoo are having problem competing with Google.

People prefer to work at Google. Even companies prefer to be acquired by Google.

Google must have done something right. Everything they do is cool. Comparatively, everything Microsoft does for a long time is an evil attemp to take over the world.

What can go wong with them? They just reported third quarter earnings growth of 92% over last year. Could they have done that by cutting back on the amount they paid to adsense publisher? No wonder people are speculating Adsense is dead.

Imagine Google went from zero to what they are now is just over half a decade. Impossible is nothing.

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