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• 03.21.07
  Google Body Google | (5)

  Today I did a presentation at a marketing conference here in Oslo. I was speaking after Mr. Jan Grønbech, the country manager at Google Norway. While chatting with him before our presentations he told me about two Google products that I didn't know of. Google Mars and Google Moon. How cool is that? Of course they're of limited use, but way cool. However those services reminded me of an excellent suggestion from Mr. M. over at the Pappmaskin. An idea about Google making a Google Body: There should be a Google Earth and a Google Map for the body, where you could ...
• 03.06.07
  The Shadow IT Department Google, gtd, tools, workflow | (5)

  Espen Andersen points me to this article about how advanced users build their own set of tools to be more effective. Tools that the central IT department at their place of work don't provide. As Mr. Dr. Andersen points out, this is not exactly news, but I think the phenomenon accelerates right now. Because of powerful tools on the internet that tend to be more user friendly and effective than what the IT departments provide. And I think that Ben Worthen is spot on right here: Users want IT to be responsive to their individual needs and to make them more productive. ...
• 11.15.06
  Google and winter in Norway Google | (5)

  Google is currently updating some satellite images for Norway. Problem is that these new images are taken during winter. And the difference between winter and summer in Norway is huge. I don't know what they'll settle for, but a random combination of images from winter and summer makes both Google Earth and Google Maps look quite interesting. Bonus link for new readers: My video of the seasons in Norway. (Thanks, Anarkistix for the tip)
• 11.04.06
  Gmail on you mobile Google, gmail, nokia | (18)

  First, if you don't use gmail you should really consider starting. It's the best web based mail this planet has seen so far. On my computer at home I don't use anything else. I didn't even bother to install Outlook or anything similar the last time I cleaned up the box. If you need an invite send me an email to eirikso at gmail dot com. The 50 first will get one. Or, simply google "gmail invite"... So, you're using gmail and you have a Symbian phone. Like the Nokia N80 or N73 one of the 300 supported java enabeled phones. And you want a nice interface for your gmail ...
• 08.09.06
  YouTube or Google Video? Google, YouTube, video | (2)

  First, an apology to my RSS subscribers. Unfortunately, articles from this blog get published again if I change them. Recently I have done some experiments where I change the hosting of some of my videos to Google Video from YouTube. All the articles that have been modified will then show up as new in many RSS-readers. Sorry for the inconvenience. So for my little experiment. I have posted a couple of videos lately, and have been using YouTube to host them. I have also been playing around with Google Video, and here is a quick round-up: YouTube - Low quality on videos - Big ...
• 04.21.06
  Stupid artist families and stupid astronomers Apple, Daily ramblings, Google, law, miro, sagan | (0)

  Thomas Hawk has an excellent comment on the fact that Joan Miro's family just sued Google because they incorporated parts of his art in their logo on his birthday: "So let's get this right. Google chooses to create a special logo to honor the art and memory of Miro and his birth in 1893 and his family wants to get all pissy about it?" I hope Miro turns in his grave in disgrace of his own family. This is just ridiculous. It reminds me of the story from 1994 when Apple used the code name Sagan for their new PowerMac under construction. The ...
• 08.11.05
  The increase of pages indexed by Yahoo shows on Trendmapper? Google, Technology, internet | (0)

  I have followed parts of the discussions around the fact that Yahoo claimed to have increased its index to include about 20 billion web pages. A claim that several people questions. I am not in the position to have qualified theories about that, but I am running a web site that reflects that something clearly has happened to the engine over at Yahoo. In Trendmapper nearly all the charts searching for phrases with a significant amount of hits had a big jump in its Yahoo curve earlier this month. Actually, a search that looked useless at first have become quite useful for me. ...
• 06.30.05
  And I thought a banned video from Norway was interesting Google, Uncategorized | (0)

  John Battelle: Now playing on Google: Matrix Revolutions ...for how many minutes? Edit: Not many minutes... It has now been removed and the link suddenly goes to a general page whith a search for "matrix". Lucky enough I captured the screen shot in this post while it was still available. Related: Banned video on Google Google Video update Google Video and Media Center Edition
• 06.29.05
  Google Video update Google, Media, Movies | (0)

  Today BoingBoing announces that DVD-Jon has hacked the Google Video player so that it can play content from other sources as well. Very nice, considering the fact that 90% of the videos on Google are currently unavailable. As a friend of mine, Anarkistix states: "Why release a content service with no content?" True...
• 06.28.05
  Banned video on Google Google, Media, Technology, law | (0)

  I recently posted some thoughts on the fact that Google Video just released their own video plugin. So of course I had to download it and try it out. My first impression: - At this point only available for windows - Easy to install - Very basic functionallity: a) The videos play directly in the browser b) You can click the video for fullscreen Huge amounts of the videos are not available for playback yet. I guess it is due to the non existent payment system. However, as mentioned in my previous article I do not think that this is going to be a success before Google adds ...

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