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November 26, 2009

Play around with Google's cool new interface

via pocket-lint.com

Google is currently experimenting with its monolithic homepage to make is just that little bit more useful for the likes of you and I.

Not only does it look a little bit cooler with the "Chrome/Wave blue" it has begun to use elsewhere, but the search interface is more consistent. Users will be able to flip between different types of search result using the toolbar on the left of the screen (see above), which is especially useful for any kind of marketing research or cyber stalking. All results are delivered in a clean and consistent style.

To play around:
Visit Google.com (not .co.uk or any other regional site), log out of your Google account if you have one and paste the following into the address bar:

javascript:void(document.cookie="PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com");

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Filed under  //   Google   Google Blogs   Google News   Google Wave   search  

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October 20, 2009

The Jan Moir word cloud

A word cloud I created using a combination of Google Blogs RSS and Wordle (with inane words removed) to see which are the most used words to describe Daily Mail journalist Jan Moir after her much criticised article on Stephen Gately's death published on Friday. I'm actually surprised that the negative words aren't larger in size!

But then again there are a lot of different negative words instead, so the volume (?!) of negativity is still high!

If we did the same thing on Twitter, however... ;-)

P.s - Just removed Stephen Gately from it; I want this to be specifically focused on the 'loathsome' Jan Moir!

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Filed under  //   Daily Mail   Google   Google Blogs   Jan Moir   Social Media   Social networks   Stephen Gately   Traditional Media   word cloud   Wordle  

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September 30, 2009

Google Wave crowdsources its brand messaging

Google Wave
Not only is our product still just a preview, but so is our messaging. Clearly. Help us out with your brilliant ideas for how to best describe Google Wave in 65 characters or fewer.
1,302 people have submitted 489 ideas and cast 11,825 votes
but what do you think?
Please sign in to vote on ideas and suggest your own.
via moderator.appspot.com

Something that I've not seen reported on in the MASSES of media coverage around Google Wave is that the Big G is actually crowdsourcing its brand messaging.

Google has invited users to submit and vote on brand messages of 65 characters or less - the most popular of which the company will use as the mantra for describing the service in all marketing and PR.

This appears to be something new for Google - it will be interesting to see what they end up with...

Check out the link above to participate/view the submissions so far!

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Filed under  //   brand   brand messaging   branding   crowdsourcing   Google   Google Wave  

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July 27, 2009

Want a head-start with Google Wave?

If, like me, you are ridiculously impatient about the next big technology coming from the tech behemoth that is Google, here's some good news - you can get flying head-start with Google Wave's core features before the company releases it to beta on 30 September.

Thanks to Mashable's Ben Parr and a team of developers in Germany, a few of us early adopters have been playing around with PyGoWave - a barebones version of the Google Wave platform. As you can see in the images above the differences between the two's graphical UI is quite stark (PyGoWave being the first, Google Wave being the second - check following post), but the platform does give a great insight into how the system works and it even lets users play around with the (much raved about) widget system.

If you want to play around on either the Mashable or my own Digitised Culture wave, register with PyGoWave, leave a comment with your name below and I'll add you to both. 


However, please be aware that is is not even beta, it's a very early alpha build.

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Filed under  //   Communications   Google   Google Wave   PyGoWave   Social Media   Web 2.0  

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