Simon Zambrovski

Google’s portal is now called iGoogle

Google Maps Service hast been extended. Now a registered user can create own maps easily. The results can be exported via KLM.

Google’s alternative to Flickr extended free space from 250MB to 1GB.

In that time yahoo (FlickR) added their own map and copied google feature of sharing the album with people without a FlickR account.

tags: google, yahoo, flickr, picasa

Today I noticed a small “Select theme” on the right side of my customized google page. After selecting a theme I was excited about the themes capable of displaying the local time, sunrise and dawn.

I wonder what will be next? Displaying the weather?

Yesterday, I spoke with Boris about the “ Google Code” and the silently growing project management site. Google started with “Code Search” and is now establishing a suite a la Sourceforge. Just another provider that will be kicked by side from Google. Boris said, that would damage the community oppinion. Even so, today I saw this message and wonder if it is possible to buy Sourceforge…

tags: google, sourceforge

I forgot to inform that the new version of Google Reader is much more comfortable than the last one, so I moved all my blog-reading off the Bloglines to Google Reader…

Today I noticed that my google service offers several “new” services in the upper left corner of my GMail. These are Google, GMail, Calendar, Photos, Docs and Spreadsheets.

The new one are:

• Photos ( picasa web albums) offering something like FlickR, but better (as usual by google) and
• Docs and Spreadshhets ( docs and spreadsheets) that is a conjunction of Spreadsheets (Google Excel) and Writely (Google Word) and the document management interface…

Great. We are continously moving to online office….

I installed Google Analytics in order to find out, who is reading my blog…

A nice extension for Firefox, showing the Blogs (from Blogger) to the current site visited
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/webcomments/index.html

Today I tried out Google Talk, another product extending the Google Empire. It works very fine and managed to communicate across the corporate boundaries with non-transparent HTTPS proxy.

This is a very helpfull feature in terms of a global avaliability. I continue to use Skype, because of its Skype-Out feature and hope that Google will extend its Talk or simply buy Skype…