Tag Archives: Google
Keeping in touch, the Words with Friends way.
I do love my iPhone. It’s changed the way I interact with the Web. I like the fact that I can easily check my work email and personal gmail accounts easily, and I can check in with Twitter via either … Continue reading
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What’s in a name?
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. Marshall McLuhan Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, recently made a some very interesting comments while being interviewed by Holman W Jenkins from the Wall Street Journal; … Continue reading
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Real time search – Google launch today
Just last night I wrote about why a company like Google would be interested in the real time search offered by services like Twitter. Today they launched just that. Now when you receive search results, at the top of your … Continue reading
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Google Wave – initial impressions
I’ve been playing around with Google Wave for a few days now, trying to work out what it can offer us as a new vehicle for communication. My initial impression is that it is real time email. If you are … Continue reading
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Google Wave explained
Like thousands of others, I was waiting for a Google Wave invite, but none arrived. Even publicly begging for one on Twitter didn’t do me any good. Here’s hoping I will get one eventually, because it does look really interesting. … Continue reading
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Just think about it…
Just think about it………. 1o years ago, if I wanted to find out about Biston Betularia and Industrial Melanism I would have had to venture to my local library, search the catalogue and hope that a book they had contained some … Continue reading
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Google Translate- is this changing the nature of LOTE teaching?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I was involved in a session the other day with Yr 9 students. We were exploring techniques for searching the web to find the information you need. We spent some time looking at Google … Continue reading
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Google and the Future of Books – Robert Darnton’s must read article
Image by clarissa~ via Flickr If you are at all interested in the future of books and the digitising of collections you must read Robert Darnton‘s article ‘Google and the Future of Books’ … Continue reading
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Google Notebook facing the chop
Google have announced that they are going to stop offering some services that are useful for education. One of these is Google Notebook. Here’s what Techcrunch have reported; Google Notebook will continue to function for current users, but will no … Continue reading
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