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The Future of HTML5 as Seen by Eric Schmidt

Posted on February 17, 2011 by cpjobling

This statement from Eric Schmidt’s keynote at the Mobile World Congress 2011 as quoted by Charles Arthur in the Guardian Tech Blog as some key implications for the future of internet app development. He said some other things too, but … Continue reading →

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Wave bye bye

Posted on August 5, 2010 by cpjobling

Although I missed the original announcement, I am indebted to Jane Hart who shared the announcement Update on Google Wave (posted by Urs Hölze on the Official Google Blog) of Google’s decision to cease development of Google Wave: We were … Continue reading →

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Google Reader Updates: Share News on Twitter, Facebook, and More

Posted on August 13, 2009 by cpjobling

As reported in Mashable Google Reader Updates: Share News on Twitter, Facebook, and More is a feature that I’ve wanted in Google Reader for ever! Now you can have a send-to link in your Reader Page and send items you … Continue reading →

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Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

Posted on June 16, 2009 by cpjobling

I’m probably a few days late in bringing this to your attention, here goes anyway! In the Google IO Conference 2009, Google previewed a really interesting new, open-source, open-potocol platform for collaboration called Google Wave (wave.google.com). This video recording of … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code 2009 is open for applications

Posted on March 24, 2009 by cpjobling

Google Summer of Code 2009 is open for applications. I think that GSoC, which is an annual event in which Google pays students 4,500 USD to work on an open source project of their choice, is a great project and … Continue reading →

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Displaying Pie Charts with Google Chart API

Posted on January 30, 2009 by cpjobling

In one of my current projects I am publishing the results (in blog form) of the first assessment of my use of e-learning that I have ever formally tried. The majority of the questions use the Likert scale (where respondees … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome App Maker

Posted on September 4, 2008 by cpjobling

One of the nice features of the newly released beta of Google Chrome is the feature that makes it easy to convert a tab into a standalone desktop application shortcut which you can add to your desktop, quick launch and … Continue reading →

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Disruptive Technologies: Digital downloads, iPlayer and Google Friends

Posted on June 2, 2008 by cpjobling

In today’s Guardian and Media Guardian there where three articles about how Web technologies are having disruptive effects on traditional media and even (in one case) on one Web 2.0 poster-child technology itself. Here’s a quick summary with links to … Continue reading →

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Google I/0 2008 Keynote

Posted on May 29, 2008 by cpjobling

I have just finished watching the keynote of the Google I/O 2008 conference that took place at 9.30 am Las Vegas time yesterday and was posted on YouTube almost straight away afterwards. The conference is aimed at developers, but there’s … Continue reading →

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Google Tech Talk Showcase

Posted on June 4, 2007 by cpjobling

Dion Almaer has provided a nice new portal to the Google Tech Talk Showcase of tech videos that are hosted on Google Video. I’ve been picking these up from a search feed that looks for the engEdu tag on Google … Continue reading →

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