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Free Google Wave Invitation Giveaway

I’ve got 18 more invitations to give away. Free of course.  Let me know if you want one.
What is Google Wave?
Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless — in one place, you can communicate and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is [...]

Always use https now in Google Apps Standard Edition

Gmail users have been able to configure Gmail to use SSL for their email accounts since July, and then in August, SSL enforcement available as an administrative setting for Google Apps Premier Edition users.
I’m not sure when the Google Apps team did this, but as of day I see that my Google Apps Standard Edition email [...]

Google Chrome says: I know the internet.

Firefox says: I can take you where you want to go.

Internet Explorer says: I can take you where you want to go. I’m not sure what I’m doing, would you like to navigate to ‘http://3639557480.com’ instead?

Google Chrome says: I can take you where you want to go. I know the internet.

For those of you who [...]

Browser Wars

Google homepage now also reads “”New! Download Chrome (BETA) – the new browser from Google”

The web browser with no chrome is Google’s fresh take on the browser. It does however have a chrome, but it doesn’t try to stand out and get in your way.
This browser has been built from scratch; the Google Chrome comic [...]

Where have all the shared stuff gone…

Update: Google is giving up on this and have decided to shut it down. “Google Shared Stuff” will no longer be available after 3/30/2009. I wont be missing it. Its not like it worked anyway!
My Google Shared Stuff page is missing all the stuff I had shared on it! What gives?
It’s true that I haven’t used [...]

Google account stolen?

What’s wrong in the email that I got below? Well for one thing, I didn’t try to reset my password, and the email doesn’t tell me what to do if I was not the one who initiated this password reset process.

Someone had recently attempted to reset my Google Account password. I’m not sure if [...]

Google Index Updates

Google has given Google Webmaster Tools to “provide you with a free and easy way to make your site more Google-friendly”. Although I have yet to use it for that purpose, I do occasionally log in and check what Google have done with the tools. They haven’t updated it much since the last time I [...]

How to: Twitter on GTalk for you domain

Some of us got blown away by twitter, some of us just got annoyed that it didnt work with Google Talk for Google Apps. But surely it should work right?
For GTalk to talk with Twitter you only need to add/invite twitter@twitter.com to your Google Talk contacts. It will instantly accept the invitation and you’re only your way. It’s that simple. [...]

Why Google is loosing market share

I was surprised that Microsoft Live Search had managed to gain market share from Google and Yahoo according to recent comScore ratings. It was attributed to the Live Search Club. A place where you play games, earn tickets and get prizes.
The games were setup with a search box at the bottom so that when you [...]

GoogleBurner

Its Official. Google has acquired FeedBurner.