Category: Google
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Implementing Mozilla Persona on Interpr.it
When I first launched Interpr.it as a Google Chrome extension translation platform four years ago, I used Google OpenID to authenticate users, because: a) I didn’t want people to have to create a new username and password. and b) It made sense that Chrome extension authors and translators would already have Google accounts. Years passed,…
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Offline Mode
In which I Google nothing.
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Google should know better
I was checking out some stats for my website with Google’s Webmaster Tools, and what did I see? Google moved https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/diagnostic to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/diagnostics (notice the trailing “s”) without setting up any sort of redirect. Google: how are search engines going to find you if you don’t set up proper redirects??
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How to get hei…
I was just about to search for how to get height of browser window, when Google suggested something much more worthy of my time:
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Paging Johnny…
I just saw this ad next to a GMail message about ScribeFire: There must be a better method for finding an amnesic Johnny Depp than poorly targeted Google ads.
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Google redefines the folder
Inside the official announcement of some upgrades to Google Documents is this section about the new “folders” feature: “Almost from the day we launched people have been clamoring for folders. They’re here! […] documents can live in more than one folder at a time.” I don’t know about you, but where I come from, that’s…
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Dear Google…
Why do people only write formal letters to corporations when they have a problem? It’s like the college-aged child who only writes home when he needs money. I’d like to see more of this: Dear Google, How are things with you? I’m doing well, if you were wondering. Congratulations on your DoubleClick acquisition; it sounds…
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Decommissioning GoogleTabs
I’ve decided to retire GoogleTabs, one of the very first extensions I ever wrote. GoogleTabs adds a context-menu option to open all of the Google search results on the current page in tabs. I made this decision for several reasons: I don’t have time to keep up with Google. Every time they change the HTML…
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Traffic added to Google Maps
Google has added a traffic overlay to its map service, and they’ve miraculously included the Twin Cities metro area. I never go anywhere, but my wife is going to love this.
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Feed subscribers
Now that Google Reader is reporting the number of users subscribed to a feed, I can finally tell that there are 35 people using Google Reader to read my feed. I wouldn’t have thought that 35 people *total* subscribed to my feed, but judging by what the other user-agents are reporting, about 50 people use…
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Finally, some recognition
Google sees me for who I really am.
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The A to Z of me
I’ve been thinking recently that it’d be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we? archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD. blog.netscape.com: the official…
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Who are you? Who, who, who, who?
Apparently, when you post to Slashdot claiming to be someone you may not be, people don’t take your word for it. In the hour after I wrote that post, my access logs show that 10 different people searched Google for “Christopher Finke” and ended up at my site. (This normally happens about twice a month.)…
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You can find anything on eBay…
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frist psot
Some interesting Google searches for which my blog is the first result: it hailed mandeltastic the hand strikes and gives a flower nah na na comment voting netscape is my portal to nookie and from someone who is apparently debating whether to finish high school or drop out and become a gameshow host, what grade…
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Validation
Just noticed from my referrer logs that Google is linking to my OPML Support for Firefox extension from its Google Reader FAQ. Neat.