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1/23/2008 8:14:47 PM

HIPA?

1/23/2008 8:22:04 PM

Do you mean HIPAA?

1/23/2008 8:23:15 PM

is it just me or did google reader change their favicon recently?



ok, at least one person noticed it recently nm it's well documented by now. clearly this is the first time i've read any feeds today
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-reader-shows-published-date.html


[Edited on January 26, 2008 at 12:47 AM. Reason : .]

1/26/2008 12:43:25 AM

can use Google Spreadsheets to create forms and the results will go into your spreadsheet in real time
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-02-07-n68.html

2/6/2008 9:42:05 PM

The Triangle area just got Street-viewed.

I found my house, and my roommate's car.

2/12/2008 9:59:35 AM

sweet, good find! i've been wondering when they were going to add us.
The pictures look like they're from the early fall. The leaves are still green, but there is a new building beside my office that shows up that has only been there a couple months

2/12/2008 11:45:29 AM

man this is awesome

2/12/2008 11:54:33 AM

hell yea

2/12/2008 12:37:57 PM

ha, my car is at two houses. one where i used to live in durham and one right after i moved in where i live now. they must have taken the photos in durham before sept. and in north raleigh right around the first of october.

2/12/2008 12:51:11 PM

wonder if anybody will get caught cheating or with somebody they aren't suppose to be with because of this

2/12/2008 2:05:41 PM

i wonder if how many people will get robbed because of this

2/12/2008 2:12:15 PM

true, what's a rich ass neighborhood in Raleigh? i wanna look at some big houses

2/12/2008 2:13:16 PM

^^ mhum.... because before this, rich people and nice houses were anonymous....

2/12/2008 2:15:55 PM

my car is on street view! hooray!

2/12/2008 2:31:27 PM

they need to do this shit in gboro

2/12/2008 2:34:00 PM

Quote :

"^^ mhum.... because before this, rich people and nice houses were anonymous...."

uh no, it just makes it a lot easier to case out the joint before making a move...use your head

2/12/2008 2:47:13 PM

yeah, i understand the point.
my point is, i seriously doubt there are would-be house robbers sitting around "casing out" houses to rob on Google Maps. but whatever, maybe i just don't have the mind of a criminal

2/12/2008 2:56:02 PM

just have a visit to your local public library and check out who uses the computers...

2/12/2008 3:05:50 PM

that's retarded. streetview has been out a long time now and i haven't heard of any crime sprees brought on streetview. FUD as far as i'm concerned

2/12/2008 3:15:30 PM

If anything the places where you can actually look up property value would be much worse than street view is.

2/12/2008 3:52:42 PM

haha, this is fun

2/12/2008 3:54:17 PM

yeah, i agree. just FUD.
lots of people like to pretend like before Google they were just safe and anonymous. Yes, Google has made lots of personal information more easily accessible, but they're not actually creating or publishing anything new. All that data was already there for someone who was motivated enough to find it. The benefits to the public in general from the information Google and others now make it easy to find I think far outweighs the slight chance that information could be used maliciously.

2/12/2008 3:54:34 PM

Quote :

"If anything the places where you can actually look up property value would be much worse than street view is."

yeah, it's funny i haven't heard anybody say something like this

Quote :

"i wonder how many people will get robbed because of this http://www.zillow.com/ and http://aws1.co.wake.nc.us/realestate/search.asp"

2/12/2008 3:57:27 PM

yeah i mean like just now to find a nice house to look at on street view i still had to use realtor.com and just searched for anything over $1M... it gives an address. obviously it'd be easy to find this house with or without google... seeing if say, it's not near anything else, is something useful with this (for a thief) but in all reality, it isn't going to matter. if somebody wants to steal something theyre going to, period

2/12/2008 3:59:12 PM

im just saying that yeah, while all of this information was available before google came along, it has never been nearly as EASY to get it. EASY = dumb people can do it = more percentage of criminals can do it...see where im going with this?

have there been any studies on rates of home invasions before and after google streetview mapped out a city? i mean up until now they were only doing the very populated, dense cities, where privacy wasn't much of a concern to begin with. i think smaller cities are a lot more vulnerable to malicious use of streetview. again, just my opinion

2/12/2008 4:32:32 PM

yeah but dumb people don't plan shit
it just happens

2/12/2008 5:15:10 PM

i dunno

i consult the internet before making any decision in life

2/12/2008 5:22:32 PM

this is scary, but so cool at the same time.

2/12/2008 5:32:01 PM

haha i can see two of my neighbors standing across from my house, waiting for the school bus, which i can see if i move up my street a ways.

2/13/2008 10:46:49 AM

Quote :

""If anything the places where you can actually look up property value would be much worse than street view is.""

what, like public record?

how do you think people figured these things out before the internet???

2/13/2008 12:30:55 PM

lol

hi2u wake ems station 1

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=222+w.+hargett+st+raleigh&sll=35.783146,-78.639343&sspn=0.015284,0.026951&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=35.778332,-78.642572&spn=0.007642,0.013475&z=17&cbll=35.775677,-78.641481&cbp=1,357.21635591740744,0,0,7.013702833464676

2/13/2008 2:01:21 PM

they just released a "Google Maps Static API", where you can create images of Google Maps without using any scripting, kind of like their Charts API.

you can use it when you want to embed a map of something/somewhere in a webpage, but you can't or don't want to use scripting, or you just want it to be a static image of a map instead of an interactive map.

summary - http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-maps-without-scripting.html
documentation - http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/

example


for some reason you can only use Map view or Mobile view.... no satellite

2/21/2008 5:18:30 PM

^ that is extremely handy. i have been wanting to use a small map view like that to put the location of a property on real estate websites, but i decided not to because it took so much time to load the maps application. good find!

2/21/2008 5:27:56 PM

its probably been mentioned but the Flight Simulator part of Google Earth v4.2 is pretty neat...i hooked a little USB gamepad up and mapped some of the controls and flew into Charlotte Douglas from JFK in an F-16...only crashed about 8 times before I 'successfully' landed near the parking deck

2/23/2008 11:18:47 PM

Google Apps Newsletter... i really like the addition of Email Archive Uploading...

Quote :

"Get new features sooner Want to be closer to the cutting edge of Google's technology? If so, you can opt-in to enable new features for your users before they're made available to all Google Apps domains. To learn more, check out the Google Apps Help Center: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=82691 Create surveys with Google Docs A common use case for Google Docs is to create a spreadsheet and circulate the link to collect data. For instance, you might create a spreadsheet to collect your colleagues' preferred dates and topics for a guest speaker. Instead of giving everyone access to your spreadsheet, you can now create a form in your spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address (not just Google Apps users). Read more at the Google Docs Blog post: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html Email Uploaders Is the bulk of your users' email confined to their desktops? The new Email Uploader unchains users from their PCs and lets them transfer email archives to online storage. It's a client utility that uploads emails stored in popular Windows PC clients to Google Apps Email (available to Premier, Education, and Partner Edition users), and is an Apache 2.0 licensed open source project. For more information, please visit our blog post at http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2008/02/upload-your-old-email-with-google-email.html http://code.google.com/p/google-email-uploader/ More Docs printing options We understand that the key to printing documents is proper formatting, and we've added PDF-based printing to Google Docs. Go to File -> Print, select how many slides you'd like on a page (up to 12), and preview your choice. You'll see exactly what the printed version will look like in your preview window. New security and compliance add-on packages Google Message Security and Compliance services, powered by Postini, are already part of the Google Apps Premier Edition but are now available for add-on to other editions. These services enable central administrative control to set messaging policies, archive messages and perform e-discovery. To learn more, check out the new security webpage: http://www.google.com/a/security"

[Edited on February 27, 2008 at 4:07 PM. Reason : remove periods]

[Edited on February 27, 2008 at 4:08 PM. Reason : fix links]

2/27/2008 4:06:10 PM

Google Sites - http://sites.google.com/
looks kind of like Google Pages 2.0, but only for Google Apps accounts, or something
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-02-28-n65.html

and more info on the upcoming Google Health
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-health-first-look.html

2/28/2008 1:31:22 PM

how is Sites any different from Groups

2/28/2008 2:29:58 PM

are you referring to the Google Page Creator feature in Groups?
I think Sites is more focused on creating stand-alone websites or intranet sites, not necessarily just group discussions. And I think the features are more geared towards the CMS market.

Since it apparently only runs right now in Google Apps for your Domain, I assume it is mostly pushed towards easily creating and maintaining intranet sites for small businesses

2/28/2008 2:47:17 PM

on the Google Philantrophy front, google is giving all homeless people in San Francisco (which is a lot) a free phone number and voicemail
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23377190

2/29/2008 8:39:17 AM

Secondary search: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/04/google-offers-secondary-search-boxes/

3/5/2008 7:56:20 AM

Jesus google is fucking awesome

3/5/2008 8:06:04 AM

they are christlike

i have completely bought into everything they offer

i will likely name my children google

3/5/2008 8:49:08 AM

Quote :

"on the Google Philantrophy front, google is giving all homeless people in San Francisco (which is a lot) a free phone number and voicemail"

The funny thing is, that service is provided by GrandCentral, which is already a free service. So anyone, including a homeless person could sign up for free assuming they could get a beta invite(and 5 minutes of computer access to sign up).

So basically they just gave away free beta invites to homeless people.

3/5/2008 9:40:28 AM

Google has just released "Google Calendar Sync" which lets you link up your Outlook and Google Calendar's. I'm in love.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-calendar-sync.html

3/6/2008 2:48:49 AM

that's so fucking useful... i'm in love.

3/6/2008 8:55:49 AM

they're formalizing a "3D Cities" program for Google Earth + Sketchup. Should be cool to see how many cities that can be modeled
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/03/got-3d-data_04.html
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/03/google_earth_3d_cities_program.html

3/6/2008 9:25:18 AM

Search within a site:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/search-within-site-tale-of.html

Quote :

"This feature will now occur when we detect a high probability that a user wants more refined search results within a specific site. Like the rest of our snippets, the sites that display the site search box are chosen algorithmically based on metrics that measure how useful the search box is to users."

[Edited on March 6, 2008 at 11:30 AM. Reason : .]

3/6/2008 11:28:19 AM

Quote :

"Google has just released "Google Calendar Sync" which lets you link up your Outlook and Google Calendar's. I'm in love. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-calendar-sync.html"

My company blocks it or something - is it sending the info through some obscure port to communicate?

3/6/2008 12:11:19 PM

has weather stopped displaying on calendar for anyone? don't believe i changed anything, just noticed it wasn't there yesterday. tried disabling/re-enabling with no luck.

[Edited on March 8, 2008 at 11:37 AM. Reason : using plain FF, tried IE too]

3/8/2008 11:35:58 AM