Tech Week in Review 11-6-09

Google Chrome Enables Bookmark Syncing If you use multiple computers, keeping your bookmarks in sync can be a pain. Now, Google Chrome adds the ability to sync your bookmarks between computers running Chrome by simply entering your Google Account information. The changes are instantaneous. The only catch is that you have to be running the latest beta [...]

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How to: Build Track-able Links for Google Analytics

Analyzing your websites traffic is a great way to determine how and where you should devote you efforts and resources to attract more traffic. Most analytics software provide the necessary tools to report this traffic information, but building a utm sourced link will help sort and organize your advertising campaigns. In this how to, I [...]

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Mozilla Raindrop and Google Wave Totally Unrelated

First, everyone was waiting with baited breath for Google to release Wave. Google Wave was supposed to be the solution for all of our messaging and social media needs. It would replace FriendFeed, email, Twitter, Facebook, shrink Kanye's ego, and solve world hunger. Once those few elite who got invites started to use it, we all realized it was no such solution.

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Tech Week in Review 10-30-09

Google Music is a Reality Google has partnered with LaLa and iLike (owned by MySpace) to bring you enhanced music search. Not only can you preview and purchase music from artists you already like, but you can also use it to discover new artists.

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Tech Week in Review 10-23-09

No clue what took them so long, but photo sharing site Flickr has finally added the ability to tag people in your photos. You should be familiar with this feature from Facebook, but you have also probably been highly annoyed by this feature on Facebook as well. What makes Flickr's tagging features superior to Facebook's is the controls offered to the user.

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iLike and LaLa Pull the Strings Behind Major Music Initiatives

I've never really paid much attention to iLike or LaLa in the past, but it seems these two services are going to play an important role making music available to fans on the web, regardless of where they actually hang out. Myspace, Facebook, and Google are all using iLike and LaLa to power their latest music initiatives and expand their offerings.

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Google Sidewiki Brings Discussion To Every Website

Google Sidewiki dropped last week and hasn't actually sparked much discussion from what I can see. It allows you to read and leave comments on any website you visit. It's an interesting concept and could be very useful, but there are some implications here.

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Tech Week in Review 9-25-09

SocialToo: Your Vaccine For The Social Web SocialToo is well know as a service to help you manage your Twitter following. They started out offering an auto-dm service, but later reversed their stance and became a service to help you block all auto-dm's. In response to the frequent Twitter attacks we've seen recently, Jesse Stay decided to do something about it.

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Office.com Goes Live. Nothing To See Here.

Microsoft's shiny new domain Office.com went live today. When they first bought the domain earlier this month, the blogosphere went crazy with speculations about what they would be doing with it. Google pretty much owns the whole cloud concept, being able to store and edit your documents right on the web, so it seems logical that Microsoft will have to enter this territory at some point if they want to remain relevant.

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Gmail Tasks Adds Email Sharing

Ever since it’s launch last year, Gmail Tasks has been gradually improving. Not only have there been improvements on the back-end to increase responsiveness, but we’ve seen some important feature additions, including: Mobile and Gadget interfaces More advanced methods for managing and editing tasks And Google Calendar integration Tasks quickly became one of the most popular Gmail Labs projects and recently [...]

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