Google to Close Phoenix Office; Bloggers Fire Back: Contribute or Die
The official Google Blog noted Friday that Google will be shutting down their Phoenix, Arizona office in November.
We opened our Phoenix office in 2006 and hoped that it would develop to support many of our internal engineering projects, the systems that make Google, well, Google. But we’ve found that despite everyone’s best efforts, the projects [...]
Wild, Wild… Google
Google ads, those little bits of advertising text that litter the internet, have made some people a lot of money. I run the ads on this site to offset the costs of hosting, but others have made a living off both placing ads, and buying the “little tiny classified ads” from G$$gle.
And, more and more [...]
Calendar: Podcast, Geek Lunch & More
What’s your calendar doing? There’s a lot going on this week:
Podcamp SLC this Saturday 3/15
Geek Lunch Friday 3/14 @ Bombay House in Provo
And there’s more, thanks to the Utah Tech Events Calendar:
Wednesday, March 12
All day FamilySearch Developers Conference
4:30pm SLCFUG Monthly Meeting
7:30pm Provo Linux Users Group - Canceled
Thursday, March 13
5:00pm slc.north.rb [...]
Join the Conversation! BE HEARD!
For the last three years, I’ve been going to user group events, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, codeaways… camps, you name it. All along, I’ve been pleased to meet some of our present and past contractors or other individuals we helped in their employment transition.
But, we’ve done a poor job of creating a real community around our [...]
Google Talk: Group Chat and New Emoticons
Google Talk now enables conference-like group chats.
From their site:
Just launched!
Chat just got better with group chat and new emoticons
Group chat
Chat with multiple people without multiple windows. Invite your friends to a group discussion. To start a group chat, click ‘Group chat’ from the ‘Options’ menu when chatting.
Learn more »
New emoticons
Go from [...]
New Google Maps Mobile Knows Your Location
When I bought my Blackberry 8830, the last thing I bought it for was its on-board GPS. I didn’t even know it had one. Turns out, I wasn’t supposed to know about it since Verizon disables the GPS deep in the kernel of the device. Turns out that even Google was talking about how [...]
