Tag: Google

GPS tracking

I guess you’ve heard of GPS (Global Positioning System), a system allowing you to find out your exact position using satellite signals, and the map service Google Earth before. But did you know there’s an easy way to combine these two? By using the GPS Tracking Key from LandAirSea Systems …

Search Engine Flashback

Yesterday I wrote about Microsofts bid on Yahoo and started thinking about all search engines we’ve seen over the 10-15 years. Do you remember them all? Well, here’s a flashback for you (I know there are many more search engines, but I can’t write about them all 🙂 ). Altavista …

Yahoo!+Microsoft – A bad thing?

Unlike when Are Google too powerful? was written it’s no longer just a rumor, it’s a fact that Microsoft want to take over Yahoo. The bid of 44.6 billion USD Microsoft placed on Yahoo yesterday shows that they are dead serious in buying Yahoo. So how will this effect the …

January 2008 – FeedBurner.com

This months Site of the Month site is a really useful service for all bloggers, everyone with a forum or any other kind of feed people can subscribe to. If you haven’t guessed from the title of this post I’m writing about FeedBurner.com. FeedBurner.com is mainly used by bloggers who …

Are Google Too Powerful?

Over the last few years the emergence of Google as THE power on the internet has been nothing short of remarkable.  Their shares have gone up by over 500% since they started trading on the US stock market, they have over powered the likes and MSN and Yahoo! and now …

Five things all bloggers need

If you’re a blogger there are a couple of things you can’t live without (or at least can’t do without to blog in a professional way). 1. Your own domain name Your blog may not be big or important today, but in a couple of months or years it could …