(I posted this on Mastodon but I might as well share here in the off chance any Googlers still read blogs) It’s utterly bonkers in the year 2022 you can’t embed a YouTube video directly in a Google Doc. Each time I’m working on a draft blog post for a client I take a screenshot …
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Google Doc sharing has been broken for three years on iOS
I use Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets extensively at work. I love the tools and not having to track files or versions of files, and instead have everyone working on a single definitive cloud document. But the most annoying bug there is has to do with document sharing. Periodically, I write something that gets shared …
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Gmail’s Organized Inbox is a life changer
Last month, Google’s Gmail team introduced a new auto-organized inbox feature to little fanfare among my friends. I saw a handful of tweets about it, didn’t get notified on my own account that it was available and promptly forgot about it. After a week or so I wanted to try it out and had to …
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Thoughts surrounding Google Reader’s demise
First off, I'm sad to see Google Reader is closing up soon (why so soon when other Google apps came with 12-18 months of notice?). I know some people that developed and worked on the product and to this day I use it several times a day to keep up on a few hundred blogs …
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Google’s new design swagger
I can't help but notice over the last few days how great Google's suite of apps is looking these days. Though the top black bar threw me for a loop at first, I got used to it after a day and now that I've tried the new Gmail theme designs, as well as the new …
Why there is a Save button on Gmail’s compose new email screen on the iPad
I figured out why there is a giant "Save" button on the new mail screens of Gmail on the iPad. I was writing a long email to a friend, and I wanted to copy/paste a URL into the message. The URL was already in another open tab, so I simply switched over to it, waited …
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Google Maps adds a cycling layer
I'm really happy to hear Google launched their support of bikes in their Maps app today. There was talk about how this was in development way back when they launched walking directions and subway map details, and I imagine there had to be a lot of work to bring safer bike lane/street information into a …
To a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail
Google Searches for Staffing Answers, from the WSJ: The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit. I never thought they'd do it, but Google just invented QuitRankâ˘
The Benefits of Hindsight
Like the original iPod thread at macrumors, I love reading last year’s announcement of YouTube getting funded. Post GooTube deal, Sequoia’s $11.5 million invested netted them $495 million in return. With that in mind, these quotes from the post and linked blogs are great: “The Web 2.0 funding frenzy is in full effect.” “People on …
Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion
Holy crap, the rumors were true: Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion I’m really happy about this and think it’s a good thing. Like I said last month, YouTube offers a fundamental shift in how video is shared online and provided a free hosting outlet for millions of people. YouTube proved that broadband and video …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 