Google

  • Who do you trust?

    Marc Orchant trusted Google, at least until he heard about a small number of folks who seem to have lost their Gmail accounts, now he’s madly using Google’s POP3 access to grab a copy of all the email he has stored in Gmail. I use Gmail, I also use Outlook to access Gmail and make…

  • Google Reader

    On Kevin’s suggestion in the comments, I’m giving Google Reader another try. I tried the old version and really didn’t like it, but I decided to give it another shot after so many people talked it up so much after they upgraded. We’ll see how it goes. The one thing I’m not going to change…

  • Question about Google Reader

    Actually, it’s a question about the shared items RSS feed. I subscribed to Scoble’s Shared items in Bloglines the other day and discovered something odd. Instead of the title of each post showing as the title, the title of the original blog shows as the post title. That makes scanning the feed a lot harder…

  • Some Explanations

    I’ve been thinking about a couple of things for awhile now and I feel like I should share with you some of the reasons why I am doing things the way I am. First, the switch to Flickr from the galleries, that will be taking place bit by bit over the next few weeks or…

  • Conflicting Reports

    On the new Google Reader, Jason Clarke says: “It also solves the biggest knock against Bloglines, which is that clicking on a feed doesn’t immediately mark every post in that feed as read – they’re only marked read as you scroll past them.” While Steve Matthews, in a post talking about the 5 things he…