Last week Google launched their long awaited social network, Google+ and while it is currently in closed beta, I have been lucky to get an invite and have been using it for the last 5 days. View my profile to…
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Add Google's plus 1 button to your wordpress site
Learn how you can add google’s plus 1 button to your wordpress posts which will allow visitors to your website to recommend your content to their friends. Google added a feature to search results that let’s you recommend search results…
Android 2.3 Announced
Google announced yesterday the release of the Android 2.3 SDK or Gingerbread as it has become known. The mobile operating system (OS) will be seen first on their new flagship mobile phone, the Nexus S manufactured by Samsung and soon…
Why would you stop Google indexing your news website?
Rupert Murdoch is quoted on the BBC News site today stating that search engines that index “news” are essentially stealing the right to reproduce that content within their own search results. “There’s a doctrine called ‘fair use’, which we believe…
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Posted in Digital Marketing, Web Technologies
Posted in Digital Marketing, Web Technologies
A week of Google news
It’s been a busy week for googlers with the release of many updates and new product announcements, none more important that turn by turn navigation for Android 2.0 which threatens the entire GPS industry. Google Social SearchA lot has been…
Google increases the pressure on publishers with Google Editions
I expected this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair to reveal some surprises, but the announcement of Google Editions (a new online service for booksellers) goes beyond my expectations. Editions will compliment Google Books and will charge users a fee to purchase…
Chrome for the Mac: fast but unreliable
As a google fanboy and a Mac user it’s frustrating that Chrome for OS X is still very much an alpha version.For those who forget what Chrome is, here’s the official blurb: Chrome is a web browser that runs web…
Google app on the iPhone includes voice commands
All the talk recently has centered on google releasing an update to their popular iPhone app and that Apple forgot to add it to the app store! So what is the big deal? You can now speak at your iPhone…
Android – what it will mean to your next mobile purchase
You’ve probably heard about Android, the Open Source project part funded and instigated by google. It’s now been released in the USA on a HTC device on the T-Mobile network and will shortly launch in the uk on the same…
What is the future for twitter?
After securing further funding last week ($15 million raised valuing the company at $80million), speculation has grown over what direction twitter takes now to make it into a profitable company. Many commentators argue that any commercial model risks alienating its…
Chris Taylor
Hi I'm Chris Taylor and I'm a web publisher from Belfast and you can find me all over the web (although I'm taking a break from twitter) at the sites below.
