Google Google Updates iGoogle: Better Integration with Google Reader, Gmail, and Google Finance Google today updated its iGoogle homepage by improving its integration Google Reader, Gmail, and Google Finance. These gadgets can now make use of iGoogle's canvas feature, which allows a gadget to take up the whole screen. This is especially useful for the Google Reader and Gmail gadgets, which now bring almost all of the features of the actual… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features 5 Early Recommendation Technologies That Could Shake Up Their Niches International recommendation technology provider Strands has announced the five finalists in the Strands $100K Call for Recommender Start-Ups. From music to video to pharmaceutical drug development recommendations, these plucky startups from all around the world will now present at the Association for Computing Machinery's Recommender Systems 2008… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews Flock To Developers: We're Using Firefox Add-Ons Now On Tuesday, Flock revealed the new version of their social browser, Flock 2.0. At the time, the company made a point to mention that most Firefox extensions would work in their browser, too, including one of our favorites, Greasemonkey. However, yesterday, Flock Community Ambassador Evan Hamilton sent out an email to all Flock developers about some… Sarah Perez View comments
Product Reviews Machine Translation Makes Huge Leap With New Tool For Business A new tool for businesses dealing with the issue of multilingual communications was launched this week from a company called SDL. The SDL Automated Translation Solutions tool attempts to solve the language barrier problem by providing instant translations of web content, Microsoft Office documents, instant messages, and emails. It also allows for… Sarah Perez View comments
Google Everything Old Is New Again: Google AdWords Launches Display Ads Back in the day, online display advertisements used to be all the rage. And then Google AdWords came along and blew the lid off of online advertising with its simple text-based ads and its cost-per-click model. Advertisers were able to quickly create a terse, compelling chunk of text. Users were clicking. Revenues were rolling. All was right with… Rick Turoczy View comments