Emailing while inebriated just got a bit harder

I know I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve been busy with a lot of classes on top of having a social life.  And, this isn’t the first post for a particular reason.  It’s just funny enough that I couldn’t pass it up.
So Google just came out with a new program called Mail Goggles [...]

Technology frees our minds?

Worth reading is this well written response to Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” which I wrote about before.  In his piece, Damon Darlin, says that instead of it making us stupid it frees our minds from the more mundane tasks in life so that we can invent, think outside the box, it increases [...]

Google Digitizing Newspaper Archives

I know this story isn’t new but it did come out earlier this week.  And, it does have major implications on libraries.  I can’t fault Google for trying to Digitize newspaper archives.  It’s a great idea.  As I reported almost one year ago to the day, the Library of Congress is also digitizing old newspapers.  [...]

Google’s new venture: web browser

Google is going to be joining the web browser frontier with the launch of their new web browser Chrome.  It hasn’t come out yet (it’ll be in beta tomorrow), but it’s supposed to be ready to work with multimedia and applications online.  I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that Google is now coming out with [...]

Monopoly – Do Not Pass Go or Collect Information

Google bashing is easy to do.  They’re a huge company whose stock is something like 500 bucks a share and I wish I had bought some when their IPO was $85.  So, it comes as no surprise that some out there are wondering if Google is monopolizing information.  The story comes from ABC and it [...]