I’ve just been having a look at Google Insight Search which offers some new ways to analyse search volumes. As well as comparing search terms, you can also see search trends across a year, and search trends comparing years with countries. The picture below shows the results for a search for “Father Christmas”.
So, if you […]
I’ve just noticed that Google Health has been launched. This is a medical records system that allows the user to keep their patient records, as well as sharing them with who they see fit. It’s all web based, so patients can log in, record things about themselves (personal information, procedures, tests), import records, find doctors, […]
Google Static Maps Launched
A jolly useful feature, this. Google Maps are normally known for their super duper javascript/ajax maps that you can move around, but they now offer maps that can be put on websites as static images, like the one I created below showing Swindon’s best known landmark.
I should probably together a video on this, but here’s a (reasonably) nice way to put Google Maps on your Wordpress Blog.
Get a Google Maps API Key. You go to http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html and enter yoursite and you get a key. Keep this key.
Download the XML Google Maps plugin, unzip, place in your Wordpress plugins folder and […]
Some time ago, I blogged about Noserub, Dirk Olbertz’s project aimed ataddressing open social networking. The idea of having open social networking is that instead of having to have a multitude of IDs, platforms and so forth, you can do it all from one ID.
I’ve been watching the presentation from Google about the OpenSocial APIs […]
Blog Offline with Google Gears
I missed the whole Google Gears party, which is a shame really. In the past, I’ve worked on applications that do something similar to Google Gears. I used to know it as spooling.
This offline application allows someone running Google Gears to use their browser to blog, and if they’re offline, it […]
Does anyone know if there’s a way to poke google to do a scan of a site? I’ve done one for someone that hasn’t been checked for 2 months. It’s non-blog and quite infrequently updated content (it’s basically an application, and I can’t say who the client is).
I’m not trying to raise ranking of a […]
Somewhere in the depths of the Googleplex, an AJAX developer of near seems to have been at work on a very cool bit of technology for Google Maps, which allows you to pick up the route of your journey and just move it elsewhere.
No more having to work out a number of points that will […]
I’ve recently discovered what seems a very sensible invention - a combined USB hub and mousepad in the Google store. Once discovered, I then went hunting for the cheapest, and found that the Google store one is the cheapest at the price of £9.99.
Google USB Mousepad
I’ve recently upgraded my cellphone to a new 3G device, a Nokia 6680. My reason was mostly to do with that my existing phone was giving me sticky keys, and I figured that maybe I might think of something to build on the Symbian platform.
The thing that has most pleasantly surprised me is just how […]
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