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February 27th, 2007

Keep Your Favorites Alphabetically Ordered

It seems I’ve been immersed in “Favorite” frustration today. I was recently strong-armed into upgrading my Yahoo! Toolbar and the wonderfully efficient arrangement of favorite websites I had been using for quite awhile.
Now I’ve begun looking at other options for managing my internet favorites. I’m nowhere close to relying on the bookmarks being stored locally […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

November 22nd, 2006

I’ll Trade You Half of Microsoft for Your Google

Can you believe it? Google is now capitalized and valued at more than half the value of Microsoft. On the one hand I can believe that the potential for Google to continue making serious cash is huge. If you ever doubt it, just think about what Google really makes money from, advertising. Okay, got that […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 25th, 2006

Adding Google Custom Searches to IE7

b5media just announced they’ve incorporated Google’s Custom Search into their main page. This allows visitors to search across all of b5media’s blogs for information they need.
IE7 makes it super easy to incorporate your Google Custom Searches into your IE7 and search your favorite sites from anywhere, which I talked about on Emerging Earth. What’s even […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

June 8th, 2006

IE7 Beta 3

For anyone interested, looks like there’s going to be another beta version release of 3 sometime this summer. I’m not really interested really. Unless they shrink the UI along the top, it just doesn’t work for me. I’ve become greatly attached to Firefox and am more than happy with it, and if I want tabs […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

June 7th, 2006

Google Psych!

Jason at 37 Signals has a really interesting thought. Maybe all these little releases from Google that aren’t really anything earth-shattering are the equivalent of a chatter in the network:
What if Google was so brilliantly twisted that they’re using Writely and Spreadsheet and Calendar and massive numbers of new hires as flares to distract Microsoft […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 31st, 2006

Get a Bird’s Eye View

Was just playing around with Windows Live Local. Sure it’s a lot like Google Maps / Google Local, but the clarity on Microsoft’s Live Local is very impressive. The picture below is a screen capture looking at my house. I’m zoomed in the closest I can get on both services.

Google is on the left, […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

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