Tag Archives: google

A question of eyeballs

By Shana | Published: September 22, 2011
The new facebook has been getting its usual level of pushback for its new interface design.  One of the more interesting, if not stark, comments that appeared on my feed was the following:   Is it a coincidence that facebook becomes more like myspace right when google+ becomes available?   The short answer: No.  The [...]
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Chromebook, from a non-journalist

By Shana | Published: December 22, 2010
For those curious (or have seen me with my machine)  I have one of those CR-48s, or ChromeOS notebooks. And it is truly a combination of seriously annoying and seriously amazing. it’s essentially your browser.  But they did so many nice things to your browser that the normal browser doesn’t do. eg: pinned tabs.  I [...]
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Data Wars

By Shana | Published: November 5, 2010
If you haven’t heard the news- Google is getting rid of the ability to get your contacts imported into secondary web applications unless reciprocral data is shared back to Google.  This hurts Facebook the most, as it is the largest user of said data. (Primarily from your email) Some sigifigant points to be made here: 1) Despite [...]
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Freedom and Google

By Shana | Published: January 15, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Normally I avoid the subject of freedom at all costs. But the Google/China standoff has made it really important to say something, because I’m watching this in more bated breath than Haiti. Most people, upon meeting me, don’t realize that I burn with certain questions, one of them being “What does it [...]
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Google Lost Its Soul Today

By Shana | Published: August 20, 2009
View Larger Map In Tech Time, 2007 was ages ago.  A lifetime ago even. In that Time, Google has changed quite a bit.  So has the neighborhood that I grew up in.
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Product Failure, the Position You Never Want to Be in

By Shana | Published: August 17, 2009
So in an effort to understand as much as I can about the InterWebs, I am trying to look at as many products as I can.  While I can’t say I am some mysterious genius of words like “Drupal” or “Ruby on Rails” or “BigTables,”  I can say I have a good gut knowledge of [...]
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