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Category Archives: Google

Waving goodbye to 2009

Just sharing Gina Trapani’s excellent video illustrating Google Wave. Thanks, Gina.

I’m enjoying experimenting with Google Wave but at this stage having trouble finding playmates for this new toy.

Google Reader shortcut keys demoed

In this short video, I demonstrate a few of the shortcut keys I use in reading RSS feeds in Google Reader.
I’ve taken the video showing the entire screen, so trying to read detail will be difficult, but having you see the detail clearly wasn’t my purpose in recording it. The idea was [...]

Mind-stretching

After seeing a link to this video of Bruce Sterling’s presentation to Google’s Tech Talk on April 30, 2007 on the RSS feed for George Siemens’ always-interesting blog elearnspace, I decided to watch the 49+ minute presentation about spimes. It was one of those experiences that I have from time to time that I [...]

More about Google Calendar

Think layers, originally uploaded by CaptQuirk.
Since it was released a few days ago, I've been experimenting with Google Calendar and I've evolved a few "shoulds" about how I want to use it.
For instance as this graphic shows, I believe it is best to put some kinds of information into a separate calendar so that you [...]

Google Calendar

The beta version of Google Calendar was launched last night. There are already many articles about it on the 'net, so I'll only mention it here and point to some of them, such as this and this and this. You can see screen shots of it in this collection that Dave Winer put [...]