Since Google released Chrome, and especially since it lacks all the add-ons I rely on, I use it all the time, but only for GMail and GCal, and the occasional link I click on from emails.
All the rest is done in Firefox.
What this means for Google is that I’m not logged-in anymore.
They know a little bit less about who I am now.
Archive for December, 2008
Why Google lost from releasing Chrome early
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008Depression Visible in Search Trends
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
What’s trendy nowadays, after the first shockwaves from the economy in crisis hit?
During the Google Developer Day in Tel-Aviv, one of the examples given for Trends was “restaurants vs. recipes”.
What I find interesting, beyond the obvious, that at some point people started staying at home more, instead of going out to restaurants, is the difference between what people “hear about” and what people “want to find out more about”. In the graph above, the upper part represents what people want to know more about and the bottom part represents what people hear about. Are we going to see better days for sites like MyDish?
During the time I wrote this, I saw Thomas Hawk just posted a link to the article “Consumers Cancel Dining Out, Cut Shopping to Pay Debt – CNBC.com“. Sounds interesting.
Another interesting article contains tips for restaurants for next year, actually discussing (and help setting by doing so) the trends we’ll see next year.
Update: Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience at Google is quoted as saying ”people are looking for recipes, not restaurants” (video here).
Flickr MeMe – Itamarmar
Friday, December 5th, 2008
I went over other people’s 6th photo in the 6th page, and was amazed at how fast this meme spread since eight hours ago, and how the photos are mostly beautiful, inspiring and interesting.
There is a list of participants in the original FriendFeed thread.
I was also surprised to see most people actually chose their 6th photo and didn’t cheat, as I did – by mistake. The original photo I chose was the 6th in the 6th – when signed in…
This is my actual 6th in the 6th – and it’s even more fun!
Oh, can you please tag your photos “Flickr Meme” and add them to the group? I’ve tried to add the tag myself, and was amazed, this time, for the bad, that most Flickr users won’t let you add tags to their photos (or maybe unless you’re a contact). Is that the Flickr default?
Flickr MeMe, 6th Photo on the 6th Page
Friday, December 5th, 2008
Following an original idea by Melissa onto which I’ve stumbled upon with the help of Thomas Hawk:
“It works like this: if you use Flickr, go to the sixth page of your photostream and pick the sixth picture there, then post it to your blog.”
I shot this photo in the Israeli Negev desert about six months ago during a fun day trip with Merdi and Uri.
Full disclosure: I love the number 6.
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