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Tag: Google

  • Dear Google, where is Risu city?

    I went to Google Trend site to check some statistics. When I choose Indonesia as the location search, Google Trend will give more spesific results based on subregions. I also saw: Risu, Indonesia (see picture). OK, I’m probably not good in Geography subject. But, I never heard about a city named Risu. May be, it’s…

  • Facebook and Friendster in Indonesia

    I feel that more people added me as their Facebook contact list these days. And, many of them already added me to other social network site: Friendster. I joined both sites, but I almost never use Friendster in the last few months. I found that Friendster is too boring. I know, it might because I…

  • The Flickr Collection on Getty Images

    Last year, Flickr and Getty Images teamed up to build what they called The Flickr Collection on gettyimages.com. It’s available now at http://www.gettyimages.com/flickr What happened behind this collaboration? Flickr General Manager explains: For the past few months, editors at Getty Images have been busy exploring the Flickrverse to find the right photos to be part…

  • Twitter Search Results on Google Search

    I have Greasemonkey installed on my Firefox browser. After I heard the news about inserting Twitter real-time search directly on Google search page, I gave it a try. Visit userscripts.org to get the Greasemonkey script. What about the results? It seems that this script is useful. Having search results from two different sources: Google and…

  • Google Offers More Than 1.5 Million Public Domain Books

    Google Book Search offers a great deal. We can now find more than 1.5 million public domain book for free. Not only that, we can also enjoy reading them in mobile devices like the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1. Use this address: http://books.google.com/books/m If we’re using the mobile edition, it will display text for faster…

  • Emastic

    Emastic is a CSS Framework with some great features: Lightweight (compressed weight less then 4kb, personalized width of the page in (em,px,%), use of fixed and fluid columns in the grid, elastic layout with “em”s.

  • Google's New Favicon

    Google has a new favicon (again!). Last June 2008, they did the same. It’s January 2009.

  • Youngest Blogger

    Here’s a list of youngest bloggers. If you know young bloggers — here, they’re below 18 years old, just add them to the list. The rank is based on this formula: Age: 20%, Google PR: 25%, Technorati: 30%, Alexa: 25%. It’s debatable, but I’m interested on the list rather than the formula. Just look at…

  • Videoblogging, anyone?

    I decided to start a videoblogging now. When I am with my camera digital, sometime I capture videos and photos. So, why not bring the videos online? I know it is probably not popular — especially in Indonesia. But, why not? After doing comparison steps among some video hosting providers like Vimeo, YouTube, blip.tv, Yahoo!…

  • Google Reader New Design. I like it!

    I just logged in to Google Reader to read new updates. And I saw something different. Well, not just small changes, but huge changes on its design. Google Reader is redesigned. I like its new design. It’s cleaner, no rounded corner there. Square is the new round? I like it!

  • Rewriting Twitter

    Twitter Front End is a new look at Twitter.com and the web interface powering the message service’s social interactions today. This website was built by Niall Kennedy using web standards best practices and optimized code design. Twitter FE is currently a read-only clone of the Twitter.com website rewritten for external development and rapid iteration. Twitter…

  • Virtual Strip Search Effect

    Last month, I got Google Chrome effect. This is what happened for my post about “virtual strip search“.