Bloggle : An unofficial Google Blog Archives: October 2008
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17 October 2008
Prince Philip asks Googler if he’s been jogging
Prince Philip is famous for his outspoken and inappropriate comments. It was therefore inevitable that on the Queen’s visit to the Googleplex on Thursday he’d make some kind of bizarre remark. He didn’t disappoint.
During the tour, the Duke of Edinburgh chatted to Matthew Trewhella, a developer advocate who promotes his organisation’s products to companies.
He asked [...]
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12 October 2008
Tech elite party like the stock market crash just hasn’t happened
A group of twenty tech elite were in Cyprus last weekend and were partying as if the dot com boom had just begun. They posted a lip sync video of the song “Don’t stop believing” which they made during some of their clearly more sober moments.
Among the group were, Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike [...]
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10 October 2008
We knew the markets would be bad…but surely not this bad?!
Yes we all knew today would be a bad day for trading…but Google Finance is showing it as being far more catastrophic than anyone expected. Earlier, Kirby Witmer and others saw Google Finance showing a 1200 point drop for the Dow Jones index. That really would be terrible. Like end of the world terrible.
Fortunately, it [...]
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9 October 2008
Google puts Adsense in Maps
Looks like Google Maps have begun inserting AdSense ads into the bottom of maps with the ads being related to the place being searched for. Digital Inspiration reported this as a new feature, and I’ve certainly not seen it before. I’m seeing this on lots of places in the UK - whether big or small.
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7 October 2008
Googler has relationship disasters, makes Gmail labs feature to help
Gmail Labs provides ‘experimental’ features that enhance your Gmail experience and generally solve problems you might be having with your email. One such problem, a Googler writes, is that of sending late night emails to people you really shouldn’t about subjects you wish you hadn’t brought up.
Sometimes I send messages I shouldn’t send. Like the [...]