Since I've been playing with Google Latitude and frustratingly desiring additional features (such as, a checkbox option stating "if I am X ft near a Favorited location, consider me there" and "Sync up my Google Maps Favorites with my Google Maps Mobile Favorites". I was very happy to discover the Google Products Ideas forums. Pretty neat and I'll ( Read more... )

Google has released "2001 Search" which includes an index of what was available in 2001. I wonder if this includes redactions since then. I'm also wondering, if they have that....then will it be possible for them to make available their earlier indexes syncing up with the Internet Archive to keep this stuff in perpetuity.

Available in Google ( Read more... )

I posted something about this over on Ask.Mefi but I had absolutely no takers - I was pretty surprised.

I was playing around with one of my social network accounts, (believe it or not I can't remember which at this point), and noticed I could "import" contacts and see who from my contact list was already a member. I could also "export" existing ( Read more... )

Well, I emailed Dennis Crowley from dodgeball.google my idea for using mobile phones for social applications while stuck on various forms of mass transit. No response, but I'm sure he's a busy bee.

I've been thinking further about it, even expanding it pretty largely. I see a few applications:

1. Live Transit Data - since I've been riding the MBTA ( Read more... )

A result of my last few posts, I'm going to start posting "idea roundups" on a regular basis. I can save them in draft form and when I'm done for a bit, I will publish them. This is more about me keeping track of my thoughts and brainstorms rather than additional content to readers.

As such, I will post a disclaimer:

1. The ideas on this page are ( Read more... )

Just saw this post on Dave Farber's list "Interesting People" about how Microsoft offered $80 billion over the weekend for Yahoo!. I wondered if MS was simply going to fade away in the "Web 2.0" war between Google and Yahoo! . Hot damn what a rumor.

I was just chatting with my brother Nate, (necr03), who heard from one of his pals that the tag/folksonomy master service del.icio.us was scooped up by Yahoo! today. (Of course, he heard via Digg which, while a story itself, is quickly overtaking Slashdot as THE source for tech. exclusives or at least fast news tracking.)

In a conversation with Greg ( Read more... )