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Ever the gim­micky city Port­land, OR—at the behest of our fear­less leader, Mayor Sam Adams—is going to try for the world record for the longest game of tele­phone in a move that Port­landi­ans hope will sway Google into giv­ing us the […]

Google DNS benchmarked. And it's s l o w .

It’s offi­cial, Google has taken over the internet.

If you missed the news, or just don’t care, Google announced the launch of their new DNS ser­vice.  In their own words, you could think of DNS as “the switch­board of the Inter­net”.  The move to offer this new ser­vice is a ver­ti­cally inte­grated move for Google to […]

The spirit of the times, so says You/Google

Screen shot 2009-12-01 at 12.10.23 PMIt’s Decem­ber 1st.  Let the year-end ret­ro­spec­tives begin!  For the rest of 2009 we will be hear­ing all about the top 5, 10, 100 every­things of 2009.  And who bet­ter to kick that off than the […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Octo­ber 16th through November 10th:

Mock­Flow: Online Wire­frame Tool for Soft­ware and Websites –

Rapid pro­to­typ­ing, col­lab­o­ra­tive, web­site wire-framing.

Yes, web­sites cre­at­ing web­sites is get­ting pretty “meta”. Deal with it!

I Love Local Com­mer­cials — Spon­sored by Micro­Bilt Corporation –

Nom­i­nate your favorite busi­ness to get a […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Sep­tem­ber 25th through September 26th:

Index­ing Fire­fox 3.0 Book­marks with Quick­sil­ver — Hack­Col­lege — Student-Powered Lifehacking –

I guess this is what hap­pens when you are utterly addicted to a dead soft­ware project. You have to keep hack­ing to keep using.

If you won­der why you […]

What I'm Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from August 31st through September 4th:helvetireader

Hel­ve­tireader –

Do you love Hel­vetica? I mean, how does one love a type-face. Hel­vetica isn’t about the font really, it’s about an aes­thetic. An […]

Google supports Cooperation

From the com­pany that don’t “be evil”, a gen­er­ous and vocal ges­ture in sup­port of cooperation:

CDF Gets a $120,000 Google Grant

The Coop­er­a­tive Devel­op­ment Foun­da­tion recently received $120,000 in ad cred­its from Google.org, the non-profit arm of the search-engine giant. The grant helps CDF boost its rank­ing on the Google search engine, and helps gain greater […]

Gmail Labs: Undo Send! TGFU (thank goodness for undo)

undo send

The peo­ple behind Gmail are con­stantly work­ing to add fea­tures to their already kick-ass email client web appli­ca­tion.  Google Labs is sort of like a toy chest for Gmail, con­tain­ing dozens of major and minor plug ins for the Gmail client.  Some of these […]

Gmail tip: Mute a discussion thread

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gmail mute

Sub­scribe to a lot of mail­ing lists do you?  Receive a lot of email about stuff you don’t really care about?

Reclaim con­trol over your inbox!  Behold, the “Mute” fea­ture in Gmail.  Found in the “More Actions” menu of Gmail, mute […]

Inbox Zero: a new email frontier

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y!kes

I spent the entirety of last week upload­ing mail from user accounts into the Google.  and what i saw in the process shocked and fright­ened me!  i saw mas­sive, bloated inboxes, over­flow­ing with unread mes­sages and one-off memos that should’ve been deleted the moment their message […]