This afternoon Matt Cutts buzzed the following: Here’s a new trick that hasn’t been blogged yet! Google’s url shortener at goo.gl can generate QR codes (which are 2D barcodes) just by appending “.qr” after the goo.gl url. So the url http://goo.gl/727X does a redirect to http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ and the url http://goo.gl/727X.qr will generate a QR code that also goes to http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ . [Read More...]
![Math Class April Fools [Video]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/youtube-ps3-47e405415b88917f1d17be4439e61b1e-200x200-75-crop.jpg)
Professor Matthew Weathers of Biola University attempts to lecture his math students but is interrupted by his own shadow. With over a half a million YouTube views, this April Fools joke is worth sharing. He also has an entertaining blog. [via UrlEsque]
Google pull out of China by April 10? Nah. March 28, today, Google began redirecting all traffic from google.cn (Google China) to google.com.hk (Google Hong Kong) which allows Chinese language searches without any form of censorship. Chinese citizens have the entire internet available to them as of this afternoon via Google Hong Kong. David Drummond, [Read More...]
![Lessons For The Opposite Sex ~ Leftos.com [Startup]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/leftos_logo2.png){kind=logo}
LEssons For The Opposite Sex, a/k/a Leftos, is a community-driven website where users ask questions, offer opinions and anonymously network to improve their social or sex lives. It’s a beta web app offered by a Detroit-based startup that launched the site approximately one year ago. Leftos is broken down into six main categories: Single, Dating, [Read More...]
Google unveiled its latest lab today, Google Play (http://www.google.com/reader/play/), a magazine-style RSS reader. It shows thumbnails along the bottom edge and the viewing window enlarges images and makes them more prominent. A slideshow mode also makes Play dissimilar from Google Reader. Play includes the ability to “like” an item, share an item and star an item [Read More...]
This post was inspired by Stan Schroeder’s post on Mashable entitled, “Bing takes on ‘Goliath’ Google with Huge UK Advertising Campaign.” Apparently, Microsoft will spend up to $2.0B on an advertising campaign in the U.K. To put this “huge” campaign into perspective, Microsoft current has a market cap of approximately $253B. 65 Google buzzers replied [Read More...]
Gmail users can now enable “Refresh POP Accounts” in the Labs section. Once enabled, the refresh link (pictured) will check all POP accounts for new mail. Friday I was complaining about the previous method for checking POP accounts to a friend who hasn’t yet become a Gmail convert. The 1 hour POP times were driving [Read More...]
![The Web Gets a New Anthem [VIDEO]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/music-downloads-6-150x150.jpg)
I believe the web has a new anthem, replacing the Black Eyed Peas Now Generation, depending on your taste in music. The video featured below has already been viewed on YouTube over 32,000 times and has scored a five star rating. It’s entertaining and it is the most web-centric of any music out there… as [Read More...]
I’ve been writing about the cloud lately and remotely hosted files. Quite a few Blackberry users already use the cloud to backup contacts and calendars either with Google Sync or mIQ. I recently discovered two new Blackberry cloud apps that have significant potential… one for managing cloud hosted files and another for streaming your Mp3s [Read More...]
GrooveShark is a cloud-based music service that works in two different ways. First, you can use it like a custom radio similar to Pandora and Slacker but with unlimited skips (yes, even in the free version). Second, you can upload your MP3s and maintain a cloud library of music that you can stream from any browser. [Read More...]
![Glide Cloud Free OS 4.0 [Mini-Review]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/glide_logo.png){kind=logo}
Transmedia Corporation’s “Glide OS 4.0″ is an advertising-free, cloud-based operating system. You can access it through any web browser (including mobile browsers) and through a proprietary desktop app (Windows/Linux and OS X flavors). It has all the bells and whistles of Google’s free cloud services (calendar, email, documents, spreadsheets, etc.) and some other services not [Read More...]
![If you have a website or blog, Get Clicky [Plug]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/clicky.png)
I want to briefly plug Clicky web analytics. I haven’t received any compensation or free services for the plug. I was a Google Analytics fan until I was introduced to Clicky. I use the free version on this blog and my professional blog and I’ve found it to be valuable in analyzing web traffic. The setup [Read More...]
What new website has over 500,000 unique visitors a day and anywhere from 20,000 to 150,000 concurrent users? Hint: It’s certainly not this blog. It’s the interwebs latest rage, ChatRoulette.com, an overnight sensation created by a 17 year old Russian computer hobbyist. Chat Roulette has been featured in the New York Times, Mashable and Tech [Read More...]
Everyone is buzzing about how to use Google Buzz and whether it will succeed. Some are still tweeting about privacy concerns. Everyone wants to know whether Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz can coexist. In this post, I take a different approach. I begin with the assumption that Google Buzz will succeed and consider what effects [Read More...]
I don’t think I’ve ever had a post dedicated entirely to a Microsoft product but this is awesome. Below is a video from the TED conference which shows off the augmented reality features in Bing Maps. The video is long, around 8 minutes, but it gets better and better as it progresses.
