Saturday 28 August 2010

Instantly zap YouTube videos to your Android phone with Chrome to Phone

Instantly zap YouTube videos to your Android phone with Chrome to Phone: "Ever wanted a way to quickly and easily send YouTube videos and other information from your desktop or laptop to your phone to view on the go? The new Chrome to Phone extension adds a button to your Google Chrome browser that instantly sends the current YouTube video, web page, map, or selected phone number or text to your Android device running Froyo (or Android 2.2).

Suppose you're mid-way through a scintillating 15-minute video and you have to run to an appointment. Simply click the extension icon in your browser to send the video’s link to your phone and the device's browser will automatically open the link, ready for you to view on the go.


























The Chrome to Phone extension is available in English for now, but we hope to expand to other languages soon. Check out the help center if you have further questions.

To get Chrome to Phone, install the Chrome to Phone extension in your Google Chrome browser and the Android application on your phone, and you’re ready to go.

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Tuesday 17 August 2010

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Advises You Change Your Name To Escape Online Shame


I thought that Social Media has the emphasis on Social and how we project our Social side of our image by changing our name will this not take away the whole reason for social media sites ? Try for the moment and envisage the fact that we share our thoughts on-line and with our friends how will that work one minute Joe Bloggs then it is say John Bloggs the same person but we are not aware of who he/she is really. What a crazy way to enjoy social media sites and reason for sharing take it further and we will have an android instead of person tweeting, buzzing and sharing one day.



Is this the future or something worse - hope not anyway this is Ian Draper - really not someone else - l promise.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Wednesday 14 July 2010

Sharing in Google Docs



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Wednesday 9 June 2010

Re: Yahoo! strikes deal with Facebook in bid to be the 'largest social network' in the world

Re: Yahoo! strikes deal with Facebook in bid to be the 'largest social network' in the world: "Did you read the 'Yahoo! updates' bit ? Users have 'two weeks to opt out' before anyone on your address book can see 'see any of 'your' activities across Yahoo! sites' ! and.. this is better than the Buzz rollout ?
Mark Rabe is living in cloud Yahoo cuckoo land. If your product / service / upgrade is any good then the option is opt-in ! not 2 weeks to opt-out. THAT protects users privacy and 'will avoid incurring users’ wrath '. Users hate not having the option to opt-in, no matter how good Yahoo! Pulse’s functionality actually is.
I can't believe Yahoo would repeat Googles error so soon after the event and announce it during an announcement about a facebook tie-in given the current Facebook privacy problems.

Or maybe Mark Rabe believes that any publicity is good publicity ? Have all the colomn inches really hurt Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc ? Maybe she just wants to get in on their free bad privacy advertising ploy?

Give it 2 weeks and everyone will be commenting on this..."

Re: Yahoo! strikes deal with Facebook in bid to be the 'largest social network' in the world

Re: Yahoo! strikes deal with Facebook in bid to be the 'largest social network' in the world: "As the new CEO tightens her grip on the Social Media market will Carol Bartz be the first or last to witness the Privacy problems encountered by Facebook and will this finally make social media sites tighten up their privacy rules in favour of the user and not the site owners."

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Saturday 29 May 2010

New Facebook Privacy Settings Announced: What's Changed

New privacy rules have been required for a long-time on Facebook as so many young and impressionable youngsters are using Facebook daily just to tell their friends about what they are doing. Very few realise that someone out there is getting all this information and using it for reasons for good or evil. It is the duty of all such Social Media Sites to be aware of the need to provide their clients with as much protection as it takes to make sure they have a secure and enjoyable experience. It should not be about how many million users you have or how much advertising revenue you can generate but put people that join your site first and last. As without them you have nothing and with them you will grow and less problems will be evident on-line with privacy issues, or one day we will have a policed internet just like many states of the world and freedom of choice and speech will be gone for ever.



So clean up your site` s now before it is too late and put people before profit.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Wednesday 24 March 2010

Google Is the New "CorporNation" - Half Company, Half Virtual Government

One of the most difficult areas of any stand for justice is that you have to know what you really stand for and how you will provide help and guidance to achieve that goal. In the case of Google it is good that they stand-up and now do the right thing - even and as with all corporate entities their aim maybe profit. Let us look at at history and we see that many nations were ruled by a tyrant but even though that tyrant wreaked chaos in there wake history still changed some for the betterment of society and others for the worsening of the way we live our lives. So l applaud Google being large enough to make a stand but do not agree with Goldman Sachs for wrecking Greece`s economy. The final overriding factor must be that it is the people any nation, leader or CorporNation that really matter and l realise that the end does not justify the means but if the means to an end is worthwhile as l believe this one is, then maybe Google like any corporate entity is not as bad as they are painted.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost