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Google Notebook Integrates with Google Docs

TonyB makes some observations about Google Notebook in the forum:

<<1. [Google Notebook]’s much faster for me now. I had quit using it mostly because it was so slow. It is very usable now.

2. The Actions drop down has a new option- Export to Google Docs and Spreadsheets. It apparently will only send your entire selected Notebook. I tried just selecting individual entries and Sections, but get the entire Notebook each time. Graphics, layout and everything appears to have moved over just fine.>>

I think it’s interesting to see Google products integrate with each other like this. But is Google running the risk of making it unclear where you’re supposed to create content in the first place? Should you be creating content in Google Notebook, Blogger, Gmail, Google Page Creator or Google Docs? Or do they all have their own unique purpose? Do you think it would it be possible for Google to successfully merge these products, offering them as separate features rather than individual services?

(And has anyone else noticed these speed improvements? Do you think Google has actually improved the performance or have people just stopped using Google Notebook?)

Join the discussion in the forum...

[Thanks TonyB!]

[By Tony Ruscoe | Original post]

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Google Maps Adds Real-Time Traffic Info

New York, Boston, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Atlanta and more... Google Maps now displays live traffic data for about 60 US cities. This functionality has been available on Google Maps for Mobile since July, but it’s now available in many languages on the standard version.

The official Google Blog explains what the colors mean, although the Google Operating System blog seems to be more accurate:

• Green: more than 50 miles per hour
• Yellow: 25 - 50 miles per hour
• Red: less than 25 miles per hour
• Gray: no data available

When you’re viewing an area on Google Maps where traffic information is available, a traffic light is displayed. And there’s also a new button labeled “Traffic”.

Google’s not the first to add live traffic to its maps; Yahoo! and Microsoft have already been doing that for a while now.

Join the discussion in the forum...

[By TomHTML | Original post]

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Who’d Play Who in “Google: The Movie”?

[Images from various sources.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Original post | Comments]

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Can see some bright light at the end of the tunnel

Woo Hoo. I can see bright light at the end of the tunnel. This couple of weeks have been interesting. I will go through some of my experiences next week. But for now the news is that I have got an offer at Accenture Australia. I am excited and can't wait to join the office. The work is related to what I have been mainly engaging now and that is training and training content development. The exciting thing is I am looking forward to working in Melbourne CBD. Working in the CBD is just so lively!

I will be trying both driving in the city and taking public transportation and see how both of them compare to start with. I am excited about blogging my work experiences there, but will find out about what their blog policies are etc. etc. So does anybody else who is reading this blog works at Accenture Melbourne office? If so we can create a bloggers group of our own "Accenture Bloggers Group" if they don't have one already.

This will also be a good chance for me to catch up with people/bloggers working in the CBD. If you want to do so, just ping me and we will organise something up.

More info to follow in coming days and weeks..

Simple Wikipedia Explains Earth

I just love Simple English Wikipedia, the attempt to recreate Wikipedia in English understood by those with little grasp of the language. Here’s the article on Earth (slightly expanding on “mostly harmless”):

<<Earth is the planet that humans live on. It has only one moon. Earth orbits the Sun every 365.2564 days. The Sun provides light that shines onto the Earth.

Earth spins like a basket bell on dennis rodmans finger (that means it turns around itself) so each part of it is in light during the day and dark at night. Just the right amount of sunlight reaches Earth to keep its water from freezing, but not enough to turn it into steam. The surface of the Earth is mostly covered by salty water in its oceans. It has seven continents which rise above the oceans to make land, while one (Antarctica), is covered by a lot of ice, with very little land above the ice. There are also a lot of smaller islands.

The Earth’s poles are bloody cold and covered with ice because they get less sunlight than other parts.

The heat from the sun makes feel hot and sticky the oceans turn into steam to make clouds and change the Earth’s weather. Rain falls on the land and we get terribly wet!dont forget your brolly!! to form many rivers which have shaped the land.

The Earth is the only place humans know about which has internet. The Earth’s liquid water makes internet possible. The places with the smallest amount of rain are called deserts. There is not a lot of internet in the deserts.only in scotland!>>

As to how earth began, Simple Wikipedia proposes different theories, arguing no one can know for sure. The article points out that the best idea scientists had is that “Earth was formed from a flat circle of gas and dust around 4.55 billion years ago, and that gravity (the force that holds everything together) pulled the gas into a bigger and bigger ball of molten rock that cooled down very slowly over millions of years”, adding that “i think that some one just threw a rock in to space and thats what killed the dinosaurs and made fred flintstone.”

[Wikipedia article GNU-licensed. Image courtesy of NASA.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Original post | Comments]

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