Google latitude now gives you the option of enabling ‘history’ – you can enable it here. It’s kind of neat, and I can see it being somewhat fun to use if you go on long trips. I gave it a little test run while I was on the train back to Toronto the other day [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Google’s Security Updates…
January 13th, 2010
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Google seems to be rolling out an interesting pack of security updates for their sites. The only official announcement I’ve seen is for Gmail, but I’d expect this to come for many other services. Currently a lot of Google services work fine with https (docs, calendar, blogger.com) but none seem to offer the same default [...]
OpenID Providers, Where Are You?
September 19th, 2009
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OpenID would be much easier to implement and use if the big-guns who’ve all promised support over a year ago actually have working production environments. Yahoo! is currently the only one of the big three who properly support OpenID. Google, Microsoft, where are you? Enough with the usability testing – lets roll this shit out.
GeoLocation Technology is Frightening Me.
August 23rd, 2009
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Firefox 3.5 added support for “My Location”; Google Maps added a feature “Show My Location.” One random day I thought I’d try it out and see how well it does. I’m only using a laptop with no real GPS technology built in. I have a phone, but it doesn’t support anything fancy. It’s just a [...]
Google Wave Preview – Holy Shit
June 4th, 2009
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I think Google has managed to create the most powerful multi-platform collaborative tool ever known to man. This demo is long and very detailed but Google Wave implements so many different tools and concepts into one single point — it’s jaw dropping. The craziest part of it is the near real-time updates, as well as [...]
