In the middle of all the chaos and tragedy of the 2011 Japan Earthquake, Google made this awesome tool avaiable to aid in connecting loved ones.
New Era of Reporting News
I woke up this morning in Italy, to find a tsunami hit on the other side of the world following a 8.9-magnitude earthquake.
Where did I hear about Japan’s earthquake and tsunami first?
On Twitter.
Google TV Is Here
Google Releases More File Formats for Docs
As if Google Docs wasn’t awesome already, right? Now it supports these new formats:
- Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX)
- Apple Pages (.PAGES)
- Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
- Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
- Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
- PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
- TrueType (.TTF)
- XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
I’m pretty excited about .PSD and .AI files, which is pretty snazzy.
Will You Be Using Google’s Hotpot?
It’s like Yelp… but Google.
Is Bing Stealing Google’s Juice?
It would appear to be true (and Bing doesn’t deny it):
Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this.As a result of the apparent monitoring, Bing’s relevancy is potentially improving (or getting worse) on the back of Google’s own work. Google likens it to the digital equivalent of Bing leaning over during an exam and copying off of Google’s test.
Yikes! Do you feel burned? Or should you even care (or have an opinion)?