gPowered: By the Power of Google...

I'm not sure I like the new Facebook Design

2008-07-22T22:19:00.000-04:00

Originally I had friendfeed taking care of all my Facebook status updates. I wasn't sure I liked this on the old profile and was experimenting. Now I definitely want it to go. But even working with other apps and feeds, I'm not sure the new profile can display what the old one could. These pics are from the new one. Some valuable information is missing from the posts, diggs, twitter isn't even showing up... I'll have to play some more. What do people think?

New and Improved Google Personal Homepage (ig)

2008-07-18T15:56:00.000-04:00

I unfortunately haven't had time to touch Google reader in almost 2 weeks now, but just caught on lifehacker that Google is rolling out a new personal homepage. Some of you may have it enabled by default. If not, head over to www.google.com/ig/sandbox and sign up to get into the developer sandbox. If you aren't a developer, fake it. My favorite addition is definitely full screen Gmail preview, which I can't get to at work. I wonder how long until they block it....

gPowered Rated 8.2 on Blogged.com!

2008-07-01T21:19:00.001-04:00

I recently recieved an email about someone submitting gPowered to blogged.com. To whoever submitted it, thank you so much!!

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Mars Robot twittered from Space

2008-06-23T14:34:00.003-04:00

The Mars Phoenix robot found water on mars and what does it do? Sends a tweet

"Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!"

Android Handset’s Could Be Delayed Until 2009

2008-06-23T14:28:00.001-04:00

Well... that would suck

Social Badges

2008-06-19T20:25:00.003-04:00

So, for whatever reason. I never added my social network badges to this site. I should have, a long time ago. Feel free to follow me on FriendFeed or Twitter, be my friend on Facebook or linkedin, see what I've Dugg or listened to, take a look at my photos, and more. Will definitly be seeing how this effects my social graph

Python 2.6 and 3.0 Beta 1 Released.

2008-06-19T18:28:00.004-04:00

Get them while they're hot!

2.6

3.0 Beta

Wine 1.0 has been released

2008-06-17T11:37:00.002-04:00

Big Day for software

Firefox3: Help set a world record starting at 1pm EST

2008-06-17T11:15:00.000-04:00

Do it

Google I/O session videos posted with slides

2008-06-16T15:11:00.002-04:00

As I said earlier, Quite a few presentations from Google I/O have been posted for your viewing pleasure. I'll be glued to these this weekend while I'm on call.

Topics include
Ajax
KML
Sketchup
Android
OpenSocial
Appengine
Data APIs
Theory Talks
Youtube
Gears
Mashups
Maps
and more!

Google Toolbar Available for Firefox 3

2008-06-16T13:54:00.002-04:00

Finally, the Google toolbar is available for all those with the Firefox beta or RC releases. Just in time too... took them long enough... happy days are here again!

Live Diggnation NY Photos

2008-06-05T07:31:00.009-04:00

The show was absolutely nuts. Had a great time at Studio B. Sorry for the crappy photo quality, I forgot my camera and the blackberry doesn't do so well in the dark... I think the estimate for this meetup was about 2,000 people inside and 600 waiting outside in the rain? Great turnout, great show. Diggnation better come back to NY. (As they said at the show, NY creates/diggs the most content on Digg then anywhere else in the world, GO NEW YORK!

Diggnation filming at Studio B in NYC tonight

2008-06-04T07:36:00.002-04:00

Kevin Rose is filming Diggnation in Brooklyn tonight for Internet Week. It starts at 6 I should be able to get out of work in time. Anyone else going?

"Diggnation is a weekly video podcast produced by Revision3. It is hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, who had previously hosted TechTV's The Screen Savers together. Its main purpose is to discuss the top stories from Digg, the social bookmarking website developed by Rose and others. The format of the show usually involves Rose and Albrecht reviewing one or more brands of beer at the opening of the show, of which they will consume throughout the show, (steadily getting more and more drunk until they are almost incoherent) followed by them discussing various Digg stories from the previous week. Both audio and video versions of the podcast are available from Revision3."

5 Reasons Why RIM Should Make A BlackBerry That Runs Android

2008-06-02T19:21:00.000-04:00

I'd really enjoy this. 1) I'm obviously addicted to my crackberry. 2) I'm not sure how I feel about lots of typing in a touch screen. I played with the HTC Touch over the weekend. It was cool, it was pretty, but the screen wasn't as responsive as I would have hoped. We'll see what HTC can do with the Diamond and the Dream

I/O: MySpace installs gears

2008-05-29T17:34:00.000-04:00

Myspace unveiled a new search feature of their message center at Google I/O utilizing gears. As you search your messages, results are shown in real time, coming out of the local cache stored in gears. Hopefully this will give gears more publicity and other sited (ahem, facebook) will take a look at it ;)

This almost makes me want to create a myspace account to go play with it... ALMOST...

I/O: AppEngine is open!

2008-05-29T10:02:00.003-04:00

Appengine is no longer limited to the first 10,000 people or hackathon attendees. Anyone can set up an account but each account is still limited to 3 apps. Guess all those extra gmail accounts will come in handy eh?

I/O: Lots of Android UI Videos!

2008-05-29T09:53:00.003-04:00

Check them out, as usual, youtube is blocked at work for me... catchvideo.net to the rescue!

I/O: Web Browser, Meet Google Earth

2008-05-28T18:14:00.000-04:00

Enabling you to switch a Google Maps mashup or page to 3D Google earth with just a few lines of javascript

I/O: AOL Joins OpenSocial

2008-05-28T14:48:00.002-04:00

After today, AOL's products will support Google's OpenSocial.

I/O: Android on the HTC Dream

2008-05-28T14:37:00.004-04:00

You might see some random I/O posts popping up from me over the next few days... ;) In the keynote at Google I/O, the HTC Touch was demonstrated running Android. Touch streeview, and heck, when you move the phone, streetview moves with you!

Video on Engadget and stills on Talk Android

Google hosting popular javascript libraries

2008-05-28T12:04:00.000-04:00

I came across this yesterday looking for the mootools download link. Google is hosting a bunch of the popular javascript libraries on their server for you.

Pros:

Use Google's Bandwidth
Google takes care of keeping the files up to date
Common include code across your apps
Use Google as a Fast proxy
Gadgets will have access to cached files

Cons:

Have to rely on Google to keep files up to date
Probably won't include beta releases of libraries

The main page is here and currently includes:

Example jQuery:

AppEngine Pricing announced

2008-05-28T09:55:00.003-04:00

These look pretty cheap for what you get, and if one of my little apps actually got popular enough to fall outside of the free range, I'd gladly pay for it

Free quota to get started: 500MB storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million pageviews per month
$0.10 - $0.12 per CPU core-hour
$0.15 - $0.18 per GB-month of storage
$0.11 - $0.13 per GB outgoing bandwidth
$0.09 - $0.11 per GB incoming bandwidth

Google I/O started this morning, unhappy I am not there...

Google Treasure Hunt Week 3 is up

2008-05-27T14:36:00.001-04:00

have at!

twitter2gTalk Goes Live!

2008-05-22T15:01:00.003-04:00

Get your tweets onto Google Talk!

Twitter: A free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.

gTalk: (Google Talk) is a Windows and web-based application for voice over internet (VOIP) and instant messaging, offered by Google.

twitter2gTalk: Takes your current tweet and sets it as your Google Talk status (away) message.

I've been toying with this for a while now. I really wanted to launch twitter2gTalk as a service that anyone could use. I had the backend code all done and was dragging my feet writing the django front-end. I went to a hackathon for Google AppEngine and converted most of the code to run on that. You need a Google Account to login, but then again, you need one to use gTalk anyway.

I hope some people will find this cool or useful (some people have been waiting for this and already signed up). Feel free to follow me or the app on twitter for feature updates or subscribe to this blog.

Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed

2008-05-19T17:42:00.002-04:00

Normally I don't just link to other posts, but Scoble's latest article is quite a read. It delves into Microsoft + Yahoo Search + Facebook giving Google and the rest of the open web quite a hard time. Definitely work the time to read.