Finally Something Good on the Privacy Front–from Google Latitude
Recently I’ve been experimenting with Google Latitude: I wanted to see if I could use it to replace the “family locator” function that most mobile carriers offer at a premium price. This would require that your child or elderly parent or whoever’s whereabouts you care about carries the phone in their pocket with the display [...]
Google Buzz Is New Black – Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not
Today Google announced Google Buzz. Watch the video: The chart below shows the spectacular adoption failure of Google Wave as a standalone product. This was predicted by a lot of people including myself. As Anil Dash puts it Google Wave does not help solve a “weekend-sized problem”. Besides the obvious complex technical challenges there are three distinct [...]
