I’ve become a big fan of Google Spreadsheets over the past few months for a number of reasons. The primary being the ability to collaboratively work on a single spreadsheet simultaneously from more than one location. That’s a powerful feature that’s particularly valuable in data gathering situations. But it has a few limitations that are [...]
I just wrapped up a speaking tour where I created all of my presentations using Google’s new web based presentations application. This is a look at how that worked. As a preface, the presentations I created were screen show heavy with only an occasional use of text. What worked well: 1. Creating slides. This was [...]
Is the world ready for resume revision histories? Imagine using Google Docs to write your resume. It’s not a bad choice since you don’t have to worry about losing it in a hard drive crash. Just login to your Google Docs account, make a few updates, and send off a current resume to whoever you’d [...]
Steve Borsch pointed out on Twitter that it’s amazing what you can find on the web using the “filetype:” command on Google. If you haven’t tried this before, try typing the following line into a Google search box: ://www.flickr.com/photos/edkohler/2247423246/” title=”filetype:ppt – Google Search by edkohler, on Flickr”> This should bring back a list of every [...]
Julio has a nice round-up of reactions to the launch of Google’s StreetView. BTW, that was an embed of the StreetView version of the home for sale in this post. My favorite quote comes from Steve McPherson, who managed to get in a plug for his dog: Steve McPherson, of St. Paul said, “I’m pretty [...]
The Weekly Standard has a lengthy article taking a look at the landscape of Google’s plans to digitize the world’s books. Not surprisingly they’re facing resistance from some corners. In general, the approach Google is taking to book search is similar to what they’ve done since Day 1 with websites. The biggest difference is that [...]
Where does a person need to click on an ad to generate a click? On the ad, of course! Er, maybe? This is a question Google has been experimenting with lately, by making changes to their AdSense ad units. As I understand it, Google is concerned about people clicking on ads accidentally. For example, you [...]
FeedBurner stats across the web took a nose dive today. For example, this site dropped from around 2700 to 1665 subscribers overnight. Zoli Erdos did some digging and got to the bottom of it. For some reason, subscriber counts from Google powered RSS readers, including Google Reader and iGoogle, weren’t counted overnight. One would think [...]
Apparently, I’ve been using Google too much. How much? So much that Google thinks I’m sending “automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application.” I know I use Google a lot, but this much? Google offers two links in their suspension message to sources for antivirus or antispyware applications. Here are the operating systems [...]
Google’s TV advertising division was well represented at this week’s Electronic Retailing Association conference in Las Vegas. This is a summary of a presentation given by Google’s Matt Derella. Google has been in the process of rolling out a TV advertising platform that allows advertisers to upload commercials (15, 30, or 60 second spots) into [...]
