Android App Inventor: A Great Tool for Teaching Programming, But One with an Uncertain Future
It’s been about a year since Google launched its Android App Inventor, its DIY tool for building Android apps. The object of one of the most scathing reviews in the history of tech journalism, App Inventor was nonetheless a much-anticipated tools amon…
Read More →Google Releases 2-Step Verification in 40 Languages
In February, Google announced a new security protocol for Google accounts holders by the way of “2-step verification.” Essentially, 2-step verification is a layer of protection outside of the normal password layer of protection between the wild Web and…
Read More →Google Plus Traffic Declines 3% Over One Week
Google Plus has been live for a month, and some have already begun to fret about its health. According to Experian Hitwise, Google Plus traffic for last week declined 3% from the week before. This might suggest that some of the initial shine has worn o…
Read More →Android Market’s Major Makeover is Out Now
The new version of the Android Market promised by Google earlier this month has begun rolling out to Android 2.2+ devices in the wild. The first sightings of the updated mobile application were spotted by members on the XDA-Developers forum, who have a…
Read More →Man Builds Auto-Circling Google Plus Bot, Google Throttles Him
Here’s an interesting and under-reported story: a developer by the name of Robert Norris Hills recently created a bot that automatically adds users to Circles on Google Plus. The bot runs until it reaches the friend limit of 5,000, then removes the Ci…
Read More →New Sites Offer Circle Recommendations for Google Plus
Looking for people to Circle on Google Plus? Several new sites have popped up with ideas for “suggested circles.” Unfortunately, Google Plus itself doesn’t offer a way for users to share Circles with their friends, so for now, manually reproducing thes…
Read More →A Day Without Native Apps: My Chromebook Experiment
I’ve had a chance to test-drive a Chromebook already, but having received my very own this week (See disclosure at the end of this post), I decided to see if, indeed, I could make the Web-only netbook work for me. I mean really work for me. Many of t…
Read More →How Does Google Protect Your Data in The Cloud?
Google has one of the largest and most secure clouds in the entire industry. You do not often hear of a successful distributed denial of service attack against Google and rarely are Google applications hacked (unless, of course, it reportedly comes f…
Read More →Google Plus Best Practices: Trey Ratcliff, Artist
Google Plus, the new social network from Google, has been rapidly expanding. But contrary to early perception, it isn’t just being used by techies to talk about Google Plus. Trey Ratcliff is a well-known photographer and already Google Plus has become …
Read More →Google Places Makes its Move, Pushes Other Reviews Into the Background
This was probably something you could see coming: Google Places, the search giant’s relatively new play in local search and reviews, today announced that it has revamped Place pages and removed excerpts from reviews on 3rd party services.
For now, si…
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