Category Archives: Google

December 22, 2009 · 11:27 pm

Captions in YouTube and Google Video

Google announces support for captioning on their videos!

For more information see the Google Blog post at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html

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September 25, 2009 · 9:14 pm

Government to use cloud computing / social apps

Apps.gov – cool site to visit – new government website administered by the US General Services Administration (gsa.gov)

Apps.gov is a new website that will help government agencies move their IT applications to the Cloud.  Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra unveiled the initiative today at a a press event at NASA’s Ames Research Center. 

The site uses technologies from Google and other big Cloud vendors, but the Government isn’t going to just upload all of their data to Google.

 read more of this artice at http://blogs.computerworld.com/14739/the_us_government_is_going_cloud_with_google?source=rss_cwbloggers

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December 22, 2008 · 9:44 pm

Google SearchWiki

Customize and save your Google searches!

SearchWiki lets you customize your Google Web Search results. You can rank, remove and add notes to any result page and see those tailored results anytime you do that search while you’re logged in to your Google Account.

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December 16, 2008 · 7:33 pm

Google Friend Connect / Twitter

 Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. This means means more people engaging more deeply with your website — and with each other. In the below video, Google Product Marketing Manager Mendel Chuang gives a short introduction to Google Friend Connect.

 Google Adds Twitter

Google included Twitter in their Friend Connect program which means folks can stay connected with their Twitter network on web sites that have activated the service. This particular integration did not require effort on our part so it was a quick win for folks who use Twitter and want to connect on participating web sites.

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