When I go, I'm going Google: I still have one of those old fashioned televisions that nothing plugs into. I can't plug a DVD player in directly, or Apple TV, or a Netflix box, or Google TV. But all I really want is Google. I recently chose Android over iPhone - it's cheap, more apps, open source, and it automatically integrates with the couple dozen Google apps I use to run my … [Read more...]
Google is My Hero
You know, we've written a while back about how Google stood up to the Chinese totalitarian government by refusing to turn over dissident information on demand, while other companies like Yahoo bent over and dropped their shorts, handing those kids over to decades-long prison terms without even a cough. I've sent out gmail invites to all my Yahoo contacts with just that info. … [Read more...]
Google’s Ultimate Information Manager
I'm deliriously happy. Happy to be wrong, that is. The other day I said Google didn't know how to do "to do" lists properly. They don't. But that's beside the point - it seems google has figured out that I don't yet know how to do "to do" lists. In the same way, I used to think documents were slow-moving, local objects that you protect on a hard drive, and now I think … [Read more...]