14
Feb

Google in Love

It seems that Google is in love, because it’s full of hearts. Almost everywere you look, Google left us some small Valentine surprises. Of course, Gppgle has a lots of sites/domains, but still, Google.com, YouTube.com, Google maps and docs are all infected by the LOVE virus :)

Valentine Google Doodle:
Valentine Google Doodle

YouTube in love:
YouTube in love

The little guy in Google maps from Street view is standing on a little heart:
Google maps with hearts

And the most in love one: google docs all covered in pink (aaaayks):
Google docs in pink

07
Feb

Yahoo up, MS down

Funny thing: after the announcement of the giant Microsoft to acquire another giant (Yahoo!), the stock price of the Yahoo increased, which it’s kinda normal. But the stock price for Microsoft…..went down and looks like it’s still going. It seems like Microsoft investors are not very happy about this intention to buy Yahoo, maybe because Yahoo it’s now almost on the Investors blacklist. Interesting battle anyway with only one possible winner: Google :). Time will tell.

08
Jun

Google Spreadsheets it is here

…and i have it…and i love it…and i’m playing with it :)

For now u can only have it if u have an invitation, but you can take a tour if you’re so anctious to see it. But what is Google Spreadsheet? Ce este Google Spreadsheet? Well, it’s a small Microsoft Excell if u want, but available online. Usefull if you wanna acces your Excell files from any computer conected to internet, usefull becauze you can save/opne your files in XLS or CSV files, usefull becauze you can invite other peiples to see your sheet and even to edit it, and usefull becauze you can even talk to the person invited to modify or to edit the document. I have’t descovered yet if u can also make grafics using the tables, but so far, I love this piece of work.

Google Spreadsheet

Personally, i don’t like Google that much anymore, becauze now it’s more Evil that No evil, but still, this is one product that I’ve been expected and I’m glad that it’s here. And if you didn’t get an invitation, you can try other web services like this one: ZohoSheet, iRows or NumSum (later edit) and thanks to David, EditGrid.

23
Feb

Google pages

I’ve just find out that Google did it again :) and apparentlly, this is not new. Check out pages.google.com and tell me if this is not cool. U can create in a matter of minutes a simple but good looking web page. The number of formats and models is impresive and they look good also. I like the way u can work around and also the fact that u have 100Megs of space for your site, wich is preety much for a free online site builder.
Rumors were about Google offering some hosting (see also Gmail for your domain) and I think this is the first step on getting there. First the email, now the pages. Soon will come the hosting posibility and I can’t wait to see that happen :).

P.S. I wonder how SEO this pages are :)

22
Feb

El Dorado at Google…

I have seen many pictures and read many articles about the happy life inside Googleplex, but today I got sad a little bit. Not becauze of the this pictures that I’ve just seen, but becauze I wonder when will my Company in wich I work for, will give me (an to my colegues) at least half of the benefits that Google eployers have. I’m starting to believe that they don’t work there. From 11 pictures, only one is reprezenting a man working. The rest are playing, resting, discussing, swiming, eating and so on. Weird, no? :)
And why I don’t find or see any bad things said about life in Google plex or working at Google. It can’t be that perfect. It cand be so…..utopically (i think this is a new word invented by me :) ) perfect. It has to be at least one person who’s not happy with life at Google. The janitor for example or the peoples at the gates. Ya! The peoples from the gates. I think that I whould go insane to hear all the stuff about Googleplex and not be able to go past the gates. I know, even them are alowed to visit the Googleplex.
The quest for a sad face inside Googleplex or for a true story about non so happy peoples at Google has begun. If any of you out there knows a story like that, please make my day and tell it to me. It’s not nice for me, but make me happy and tell me that there are flaws and bad treatment at Google too, not only in the company I work for or any other company.

P.S. Do you really need a lifeguard and a lifeguard board for that tiny little smalish pool?

08
Feb

Meebo killer - part 2

GtalkSeems like I didn’t have to wait too long, becauze starting from this night Google Talk is integrated in Gmail and I love it. Typical for Google: easy to use, clean and simple design, full integration in Gmail and the big surprise is that he has even animated smileys. What is also great is that u can “pop-out” or “pop-in” the conversations with one contact or all the conversations. What is missing (also from the original Gtalk) is the posibility to get invisible, but since I don’t use that very ophen, it doesn’t boder me for now.

So, the whole picture related to this new feature look ok for now and I think this could atract more Gmail users into using Gtalk in the detriment of the very popular and good looking Yahoo Messenger. Of course, the kids will still love Y!M and also many of the addicted to Y!M users, but I also think that this could take another small bite from Yahoo’s pie. Bit by bit, piece by piece, Google will eventually conquer the world :)

07
Feb

Meebo killer

I’m using at wotk Meebo, a web messenger for Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, AOL and Jabber (or Gmail). It’s a very neat messenger and I like it a lot, although I’m not using it every time. Anyway, I’ve loged in today in my Gmail account and what do I see? Under Inbox and Starred folders, a new folder called Chats. So Google is going on web Messenger also, very soon I hope, and as one of my friend said, this is gonna be a Meebo Killer. Again, another proof of Google being evil? This could only lead to another “x vs y” kind of post, but only after I’m gonna see the new implementation of the Gtalk in Gmail.

04
Feb

Google vs del.icio.us

New Google toolbar is out there and one of the new features is Bookmarking. “You can create and label (you can read “tag it”) bookmarks that you can access from any computer. This feature stores your bookmarks online, so you’ll need to have a Google Account and be signed in to create and access your bookmarks”. U can also sign up for a Google Account. So, no more exclusive Gmails accounts. Too bad in a way, becauze I was feeling a little bit important with my Gmail account and the power to send invites :). What is bad about Google Toolbar? Well, for once, it is only available on Windows XP and only for IE6+. Since I’m on Linux I can’t see this new feature and even if I was on Windows I whould use Firefox to navigate, so this new feature is completlly useless.

On the other hand, my del.icio.us account is very handy for me, especially with the help of del.icio.us extension for Firefox (also available on linux) and that’s enough to say that for now del.icio.us is winning by far this competition :).

03
Feb

Google AdWords Prevails Over Yahoo & MSN Says Survey

Google did it again. So what else is new? Anyway, after a recent survey by Outsell, the numbers showed that Google AdWords program is more effective than YPN or MSN adCenter. This could be another slap in Yahoo’s face, shortly after their defeat recognition. By the way, who does that? Who recognize the defeat when you’re on second place? You don’t give up on second place. You figt some more until you’re gonna reach your goal. I can’t see the logic of their action, but I’m a Google fan and never enjoyed Yahoo too much, so these results “pleases me” as Bisquit (from Ally mcBeal) says.

Here’s the results:
* 71% say that search marketing on Google was effective
* 62% say that Yahoo Search Marketing was effective
* 49% say MSN was effective

and here’s the source.