Facebook – Leading the great philosophical discussions of our time

If you release a new feature that’s identical to one you removed a few months ago, is it still a new feature?

November 14, 2011   Tags: internet, marketing  No Comments

Get your shared items back in Google Reader

Following my last post, I’ve been hunting around for a way to get at my shared items from Google Reader since Google saw fit to remove them without giving anyone fair warning that they were going to do it. Naturally I’m not the only one wanting to do this, and cleverer people than I have [...]

November 6, 2011   Tags: apps, internet  No Comments

Changing product features – how not to do it

So Google finally got round to applying their new design to the Reader product to match most of the rest of the Google universe. This has, predictably, caused howls of anguish from the usual crowd who instantly complain the moment anything changes underneath them. I am not one of those people. However, there is something [...]

October 31, 2011   Tags: internet, pr  No Comments

Timezones in Google Calendar

I had a small nerdgasm recently when I discovered that Google Calendar has finally added the ability to specify the time zone in which an event will happen. This is great for entering events organised by people in other time zones – you can simply enter the time and the time zone together (there’s a [...]

February 3, 2011   Tags: apps, internet  No Comments