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  • Google’s unsocial social network

    Google has likely been building this up internally for a while, as reported by the tech media: The problem with Google Profiles as a social network is that it’s not social. Google Profiles lacks the equivalent of Facebook’s “Wall Posts” and “Status Updates.” (Profiles has a status message, but only people on your Gmail Chat…

  • Knowledge is Power

    They say knowledge is power right? Well it seems that Google is putting the two together with Power Meter, hopefully better than Enron (remember they tried to trade as a commodity bandwidth). But to Google’s credit, this plan is “the other way around” – data over the power grid and give people information on the…

  • Giving Google Some Latitude

    Google has been called Big Brother so many times, you’d think that the Big G would be synonymous with another “big g”. So now that Google has a way of not only knowing if you are thinking naughty or nice things, but where you are as well, people are starting to invest in even more…

  • Gmail Panes

    Google has added panes to GMail – even though they call it multiple inboxes, it’s is really just a better way to use and display searches. Activate it via Settings>Labs and then again in go to Settings to configure.

  • Another look at Google and the brain

    This is an older story, but after looking at how Google rots or rocks the brain, here is another look into what this instant info universe has brought us. Gary Small, a neuroscientist at UCLA in California who specializes in brain function, has found through studies that Internet searching and text messaging has made brains…