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GeoTagging is all the rage, but I’m proposing a new “geovlogged” tag for videoblogging. Combine videos with the context of both time and location and view it in both Google Maps and Google Earth.

Video tutorial for WordPress users on how to use the Google sitemap plugin. Quick and easy to follow, however, the audio is low so turn up the speakers.

Google sitemaps are a good idea and I like the fact someone took the time to make a movie about it.

I would Google “Google Virtual Flash Earth” But that’s just me. This lets you use the MSN Virtual Earth interface on Google Maps, and also switch between gMaps and VE.

This reminds me of Google Earth (gmaps’ executable and fully featured counterpart), only in a smaller, flash based form. It takes the functionality of Google Earth and makes available for Mac’s and Linux PCs. Great Stuff this is what Google should of done in the first place. I like all these map add-ons, improvements and combinations.

Very nice usage of both tools. but it did increase Firefox RAM usage by 100MB. and probably will keep going up. Funny you can use Microsoft to find censored locations and you can switch right on over to Google and look at what your “Not supposed” to see with less effort than before imagined.

I was going through the stats for my website when I came across a new search engine that I’ve never seen before, icerocket.com . It looks a bit like Google except it can search Blogs, Phone Pics, multimedia (TV, music, audio books), and personal ads. It can also build an RSS feed for your site. It has a toolbar similar to Google also. It also offers a pretty standard mail system.

Just like Technorati Cosmos, IceRocket’s Link Tracker also shows the number of linking blogs and sources next to the usual link. Even Pingoat, the new global ping service announces support for many new services including Icerocket.

I do like their “Phone Pics” feature. Now I can be a creepy voyeur without having to leave my home. The blog search is all this has going for it. They do have some promising ideas, like the quick preview and the “email your results”.

Is this the new google? Icerocket is making a blast on computers everywhere. Could this be the Google killer? The site hs been around a while now, on the internet time clock anyways, and if it were a Google killer it would have already done a lot more than it has. Google will eventually lose attraction as yahoo did, that’s a fact with most INTERNET apps, I welcome variety cause variety is good.

You can’t kill anything if your mimicing them, you only further justify the original theory, hence validating google. This is just another search engine. The interface looks exactly like Google’s, cept a different logo, obviously. It also has pics of the page before you click to view it. A nice touch, but it looks a little shady. I’d call it more of a Google wannabe.

Here’s a message to ponder:

To all prospective Google Killer search engines: You cannot kill Google by being Google. People originally flocked to Google from Av, Yahoo etc because it was better. Not because it was exactly the same.

And now all these Google killers have to be 2GB e-mail hosts, usenet news web clients, mapping sites, community sites and more rolled into one entity. This is the age of the Super-Google; A monster that cannot be stopped.

But for now, just enjoy the ride. I see no reason to replace Google, personally. They’re not evil… Much… Yet.

From COLOURlovers: “a place to view, rate and review some lovely colours & palettes. the idea is to create a place of color inspiration where a designer of any sort can see new and lovely colours… find out what colors are hot, what work well in other uses… and simply make some love with colour.”

It helps the n00bs move away from the dark and sacry times of tiled picture backgrounds and give the pros a new look at things on their sites. I’m hoping we can move away from sites with straight HTML, black background, and neon green text. (No offense to anyone going for the 80’s unix vibe).

Here’s another one with the same idea but you have the freedom to create your own color palette. The same idea can be found at Colormatch (Original made in 5 KB) and ColorBlender (the new fully cross-browser version).

Some good ideas here…hopefully the good folks at Google Labs are paying attention.

I don’t really care what they do with it, as long as they continue to allow POP access with SSL security.

The people who work at google are huge nerds. Odds are at least a few of them check one of the most popular (#7 on bloglines) blogs out there. Emailing google makes people feel like they’re not being heard, but when a lot of people say it in one place, it gives their “imap please” demands more credit.

gmail already has a suggestion box but why the still need an external venue to make suggestions?

Some of the suggestions found are:

• Contact grouping and the ability to add a filter to 1 or more groups.
• Calendar/alarm
• Larger size limit for attachments sent via Picasa or Hello.. or at least give them the ability to separate a shipment into multiple emails. It’s really annoying to have to select 2-3 pics at a time to send from Picasa.
• POP3 import

“If you take a look at the empty, burned-out shells of abandoned blogs that litter the blogosphere, you can begin to notice common mistakes that set apart the ones that fail in the first seven days.” A quick read on how to create a better blog and not fill up the net with dead sites.

The research he put into this seems to have been pretty extensive. It’s common sense stuff, but it’s common sense stuff that I think a lot of people miss. The only thing a blogger should have to worry about is having constant quality material that can cause conversation. That’s it, that’s how you’ll get people to read you.

I certainly agree about the “stock theme” thing. When I land on a blog post using a stock template, it’s really hard not to just dismiss it as “some worthless blog” immediately.

These wallpapers are out of the ordinary. This guy does great work! This is the most amazing wallpaper you will ever find, anywhere, ever. period.

It’s free. He offers higher resolution wallpapers in .png format for pay, but the free ones are .jpg and work great for desktop backgrounds. The wallpapers are on this site are top-notch! Unfortunately, no one “will ask where you got these wallpapers” because they’ll see the huge obnoxious watermark answering that question right on the wallpaper…meh

There are some other recommended wallpaper sites too:

• caedes.net
• pixelgirlpresents.com
• digitalblasphemy.com
• mandolux
• fgmma.com
• deviantart.com
• mandolux.com on multi-screen wallpapers. Go into the archive to see all the wallpapers available.
• vistawallpaper.com - You will see some Deviantart artists there.
• plasmadesign.co.uk - yeah it’s paid but there are some free ones mixed in.
• interfacelift.com - a good collection of widescreen wallpapers (2560x1600, 1920x1200, 1680x1050, and 1400x900)

Our very first glimpse of The Simpsons, these are short clips which aired on the Tracey Ullman Show 1987-1989, before and after ad breaks. I can’t believe how crappy the animation is! ^_^

“During the first three seasons of the television variety show The Tracey Ullman Show, two different series of animated shorts were run before and after commercial breaks. One was created by cartoonist Matt Groening featuring a family known as The Simpsons and another was a lesser known series by M.K. Brown named Dr. N!Godatu.” -Wikipedia

Torrents are floating around with the full set of Tracy Ulman shorts. Not that anyone here would download copyrighted content. I could only find one torrent, but there are no seeders/leechers. Can anyone else find a better torrent?

On the first download at the end, did anyone notice that Homer still had his button-up shirt on? I can’t believe he was called Captain Wacky back then! Take a look at the more later ones, for instance, the last one on the list. They’re actually a LOT more reminiscent of the current series. The first season still had this vibe, remember Homer’s voice?

The Simpsons actually first showed up briefly in Groenings comic strip Life In Hell. He was originally going to use that for the Tracey Ullman Show but it was his “bread and butter” as they say, so he created this family in case it flopped. More references here.

They are still hysterical, people just need to understand that things aren’t always about the look. They were done on a very low budget, and the animation and artwork reflects it. It was about the ideas and the dialog.

Who knew that the shorts would turn into a very funny series of cartoons.

“Over the last few months, we’ve been talking with numerous publishers, publishing industry organizations and authors about our Google Print Publisher Program and Google Print Library Project. Today I’d like to mention two new features that reflect these discussions and which we feel will considerably improve both programs.”

When I first look at that I thought it said “Making boobs easier to find” .. lol. A Public service at its best (with revenue …) Truly a Universal Library in the making.

Just one step further towards Google controlling the world’s information. You think MS is bad? MS only tried to control how you got your information. Google will index the information itself so you can find it easier. I think Google is actually a step back for the service.