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01 February 2011 ~ Comments Off

Google Latitude Adds Automatic Check In To Places

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVLsRo7-3Lk[/youtube]Google today have just released a new upgrade to their Android based Google Maps v5.1 which includes check in to their places pages as well as designations as described below: Latitude is built right into Google Maps for Android so check-ins work across Latitude and Maps seamlessly. For example, check in at that new hamburger [...]

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12 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google Voice Down Again

In what’s becoming a very sad and regular occurrence the Google Voice system is once again down. Callers to my voice number hear a “you have reached a non-working number” message. Attempts to access the web interface return the above error message.

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08 September 2010 ~ Comments Off

Why Google Multiple Accounts Still Suck

Supposedly Google “fixed” their flawed login system which caused mega problems if you regularly used more than one Google account for email or apps. Here’s a great example showing that the Google login is still broken and not any better than before. In the example before is a Google Apps document that’s been shared to [...]

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07 July 2010 ~ 55 Comments

ManyMoon and Google Apps Marketplace Disappoint

For the past month or so we’ve been using Manymoon for our project management collaboration. There’s a free version though I paid the $180 or so for a yearly subscription (which is starting to look like a mistake).  Overall, when it works,  it’s a great little tool for it’s tight integration to Google Apps which [...]

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17 June 2010 ~ Comments Off

So Much For Google Buzz Being More Stable Than Twitter

As Twitter suffers through another period of sporadic downtime many critics have pointed to Google’s new service Buzz as an example of the type of social media service that doesn’t go down and seems to be able to scale with the number of users that have been adopting it. The only problem with the comparison [...]

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