Gmail account access history only keeps a record of the last 5 connections (at least for now), as shown in this picture:

http://bp0.blogger.com/_h25OVwYBPlg/SGmDZW8gZoI/AAAAAAAAARk/FvQDI81BLic/s1600-h/lastaccountfinalFINAL.png

I agree, it would be nice for a more comprehensive access history. Including the ability to clear the history if I desired.

[Edited on July 7, 2008 at 6:57 PM. Reason : .]

7/7/2008 6:55:43 PM

uh, i can't tell if this is significant or not
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/be-who-you-want-on-web-pages-you-visit.html

7/8/2008 9:11:35 PM

mhum.... i've never played 2nd Life, but..... this sounds a lot like 2nd Life

7/8/2008 9:26:33 PM

^^ haha that looks lame as shit

7/8/2008 9:27:07 PM

What's up with the new buttons on search results? They just popped up for me in the last 3 hours.

7/15/2008 5:39:49 AM

Quote :

"nice. i hope its history goes back at least a week. my gmail got hacked or something last week. it was weird, i had gmail open as usual and saw the whole thing happen. suddenly i had like 40+ bounced emails in my inbox and then a minute or so later they were gone (at least most of them). apparently it emailed everybody in my contacts some spam link."

Check your email filters in gmail to make sure copies of your shit aren't getting sent out to some remote address now.

7/15/2008 6:37:46 AM

Google Docs/Spreadsheets/Presentations/Office just got templates
http://docs.google.com/templates?sort=hottest&view=default&pli=1
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-07-17-n29.html

check out these videos of experimental ways to interact with (mostly) Google Earth. Some of the touchscreen stuff really gives us a glimpse of where we'll be going in the future
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/07/best_google_earth_interface_videos.html#more

7/16/2008 8:41:09 PM

^^ good call. i'd heard of that happening before but didn't think to check mine. fortunately there weren't any filters in there

7/16/2008 11:35:55 PM

i don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but in google maps there is now a walking route option.

7/17/2008 8:44:44 AM

so.... i'm sure everyone has been waiting on pins and needles for Google Knol to go live
http://knol.google.com/k#
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080723-pedias-of-world-beware-google-knol-now-open-to-the-public.html
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-07-23-n20.html

7/23/2008 6:19:52 PM

what's up with this? google is now insisting on showing me a selection of search criteria. but apparently only in firefox...?



[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 8:57 PM. Reason : i am distinctly annoyed]

7/28/2008 8:54:28 PM

Quote :

"Google is working on a new service called Google Translation Center. Just a short while ago, we noticed that “center” had been added to Google’s robots.txt file, and now co-editor Tony Ruscoe discovered the link to the working frontpage... though logging in fails right now. According to the Google explanations on the frontpage and their product overview page, we can see this is meant to be a translation service which offers both volunteers and professional translators... and I suppose at least the professionals will want to get paid. In that regards, the service is in the field of sites like Click2Translate.com (a service by the company which Tony works for, incidentally, and which I’m often using for some of my sites)."

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-04-n48.html

8/4/2008 8:11:37 AM

i'm sure others have seen this before, but when i was in DC and getting street directions, google maps offered a "walking" option, so it would adjust your route for the shortest possible distance

'twas cool, IMO

8/4/2008 9:04:35 AM

^ that's relatively new. like, last week, i think, so most people probably haven't seen it

8/4/2008 9:32:28 AM

^ aha, the 17th, apparently, according to se7entythree's post, which i missed

Quote :

"i don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but in google maps there is now a walking route option."

either way, it was helpful...i walked from dupont circle to the zoo and then to the national cathedral and back, and gmaps was great, because otherwise i would have taken all the main roads

8/4/2008 11:06:13 AM

Hmm, just noticed a new interface detail with GMaps ... you can now slide the directions pane out of the way. Look along the top menu bar for the map, there is a double arrow button at the far left against the directions pane.

Very nice.

Edit: Actually, they changed a lot about the interface ... click the Get Directions button/text now

Even nicer.

[Edited on August 5, 2008 at 2:05 PM. Reason : .]

8/5/2008 2:03:21 PM

Quote :

"Hmm, just noticed a new interface detail with GMaps ... you can now slide the directions pane out of the way. Look along the top menu bar for the map, there is a double arrow button at the far left against the directions pane."

right - that feature has been there for a long time, but it was much harder to see. There used to be a tiny left-arrow at the edge of the map that you could click to hide the left pane. Obviously most people never noticed it, so it's good it's more visible now.
Now if there was a way to collapse or hide the top pane, where the toolbar and search box are, so you can get a nice big map covering the whole browser window. (can be done with a FF extension)

Also, notice that under the "Link" link, there is a "Customize and preview embedded map" link that let's you easily generate HTML to embed the current map into another page. Works for almost any map-view, including directions or "My Map". For example, here's a "My Map" that I made, then used the Customize/Embed link to easily embed it into another page
http://alishalion.com/results/
Quick and easy way to add maps without going through the process of creating a real Map application, although obviously it's not a customizable.
(a TWW-Member can embed a map here if you want to try it out)


New application - Google Insights for Search. like Google Trends on steroids
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#

[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 11:49 AM. Reason : .]

8/6/2008 11:48:38 AM

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/2008summergames/
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/08/off-to-games.html

8/8/2008 6:42:27 AM

Just ordered my space navigator today after playing with a friend's. It was awesome. Very solid, heavy, blue leds and at only 25% speed it was still crazy sensitive. Can't believe it's only 59$.

8/11/2008 1:34:53 PM

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn

8/15/2008 6:51:42 PM

Google entering the browser game with "Chrome", sounds like they have the right ideas:

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

9/1/2008 7:59:22 PM

Picasa to do facial recognition and auto-tagging of people in your photos with a new release slated for this afternoon.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/02/picasa-refresh-brings-facial-recognition/

Oh, just imagine the big brother capabilities of this


(Of course, this is pretty neat too)

9/2/2008 2:03:52 PM

that's pretty big brother'ish

9/2/2008 2:11:46 PM

TWW works with Chrome

I like it. Maybe I'm delusional but it does seem to load certain things faster than FF.

9/2/2008 4:11:08 PM

^ you're not delusional - that is one of the main selling points of the whole thing

When FireFox 4 comes out with the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine, though, then we can do a real speed comparison

9/2/2008 4:21:57 PM

http://ifyouseesomething.net/2008/09/03/google-releases-new-chrome-browser/

9/3/2008 3:40:26 PM

haha i like the did you mean one

9/3/2008 4:03:06 PM

^ditto, I laughed out loud

9/3/2008 4:27:25 PM

Picasa 3 ... refined interface, new editing options, picasaweb sync ... and of course, facial recognition
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080903-test-drive-picasa-3-gets-off-online-photo-sharing-right.html

9/4/2008 11:31:28 AM

picasaweb seems to have regressed some - can anyone figure out how to download a damn album?
I want to download a full album as a zip file, not into Picasa. used to be able to do this....

9/4/2008 11:38:16 AM

It's not just you, I can't find a way to download a whole album either ... that's very frustrating.

9/4/2008 11:42:16 AM

Google files patent for wave-powered floating data center

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10034753-54.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

9/8/2008 1:55:42 PM

^ that's cool, but why wouldn't they just have the wave turbine or whatever in the water and leave the servers on land? i know they said it would cut down on transmission distances to customers but i don't know as many people that live 3-7 miles off shore as i do those who live on land or even right on the coast. just seems risky to have a floating data center at the mercy of hurricanes, and pirates!

9/8/2008 7:49:48 PM

because then we wouldn't have a perpetual google innovation thread with cool shit like that

9/8/2008 8:12:59 PM

^^ maybe they're doing it for the unlimited cooling....or just for teh lulz

9/8/2008 9:00:53 PM

^^^ google (and other companies like Apple and MS) patent all sorts of crazy shit that their research labs come up with, most probably never with the intention of actually building. Just something they want to get in their portfolio before someone else comes up with it. Maybe they'll license it out to some other company if they want to monitize it.

in other news, they put up a new News Archive search that searches old scanned newspapers
http://news.google.com/archivesearch
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-08-n66.html

9/8/2008 10:02:41 PM

you can get Chrome Themes here
http://chromespot.com/index.php/board,12.0.html
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-10-n68.html

9/10/2008 7:37:35 AM

Riddle me this. With a simple registry hack Google Chrome seems to run perfectly fine under Windows 2000. As such, is it possible Google tried to keep it from running under windows 2000 for a nefarious purpose I cannot imagine?

That said, I suspect the most likely explanation is that this is a limitation temporarily imposed for the Beta.

9/10/2008 1:57:53 PM

wth, it's an 8yo OS, three generations old, that has had mainstream support terminated, and extended support ends in 1-1/2 years, who would still seriously consider support for it?

but still it' IS just a registry hack, they probably just don't want to support it, while it "could" run on win2k

9/10/2008 3:07:44 PM

^^ yeah, it's all about testing and setting user expectations. I'm sure they're aware of how to run it on 2k, and they probably have it running on 2k in their labs, but they probably did a cost/benefit analysis of roughly how many people still use 2k vs. how much it will cost them to officially test, debug and support 2k, and decided just not to support it.

9/10/2008 4:13:08 PM

Google Gears for Safari.
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/gears-for-safari.html
weee

9/15/2008 3:07:38 PM

Google Audio Indexing
http://labs.google.com/gaudi

http://labs.google.com/gaudi/static/faq.html

Quote :

"What is Google Audio Indexing? Google Audio Indexing is a new technology from Google that allows users to better search and watch videos from various YouTube channels. It uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken. Why is Google doing it? Google's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". As more video content is being created everyday, Google Audio Indexing tries to make it easier for people to find and consume spoken content from videos on the Web. Why focus on election material? Google Audio Indexing is a showcase for speech technology. Political videos and election materials are a special case of broadcast news content, a domain that has received a lot of academic and industry attention and is known to perform well. By making the technology available to a wide audience, we hope to both offer a useful service and learn what our users think of this new technology. "

9/16/2008 4:58:50 PM

street numbers on google maps. woo.

and more national forests

too bad pisgah isn't on there

9/16/2008 6:18:34 PM

google doesn't support ANYTHING they put out there, why would chrome be any different? there's no "cost" to them by making the app run in 2k as no one does or will ever pay for chrome or pay for google to support it.

9/16/2008 6:19:26 PM

^I disagree- they DO support the majority of their products. They actively fix user-reported bugs/vulns, seek out user experience input, and implement user feature requests with what time they have remaining.

Come on, you know that

9/16/2008 8:33:18 PM

yeah, just because you can't call up google tech support and tell them you found a bug in X product on Y platform doesn't mean they don't "support" their products.
even if they could (and obviously they can) release Chrome for 2K, again, it's just one more platform they have to bug and regression test on, and when the forums and blogs blow up about how horrible Google QA is because Chrome crashes once a week on Windows 2000, it's Google that takes the PR hit.

9/16/2008 9:39:23 PM

^well put

9/16/2008 10:18:59 PM

updated the version on my phone to this new one ... really awesome!
http://www.google.com/gmm

Google Maps Mobile Adds Street View, Walking Directions
http://lifehacker.com/5051292/google-maps-mobile-adds-street-view-walking-directions

Quote :

"The free Google Maps Mobile adds another update to the increasingly feature-rich mobile maps application, this time rolling out Street View and walking directions. The app recently added transit schedules, so the inclusion of walking directions make Google Maps Mobile a concrete jungle dweller's best friend. Street View on your mobile has obvious benefits as well—like when you're lost and looking for a storefront. Google Maps Mobile is available for the BlackBerry and other Java-enabled phones."

9/18/2008 9:09:33 AM

So, anyone going to get the G1, the first Android phone?
http://www.t-mobileg1.com/
or more relevant, does anyone actually use T-Mobile.....?

Android coverage
http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20080923/googles-g1-first-impressions/
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/23/t_mobiles_g1_android_phone_to_cost_179_available_oct_22.html
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-23-n38.html

9/23/2008 3:23:24 PM

Phone looks really nice.

I won't be switching to T-Mobile to use it though...

9/23/2008 4:24:14 PM