EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by, among others, two ex-Google employees*. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration. You can then share the URL of the document, and others who will visit that page will then be able to see, in real-time, whatever you’re typing**. This has an interesting feel to it because there’s no “security buffer” as in typical chat programs: every letter you write will be shown as you write it, including occasional errors before you fix them.

Please join this EtherPad to give it a try (note your IP will show to others). [Update: I’m told EtherPa …

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EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by, among others, two ex-Google employees*. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration. You can then share the URL of the document, and others who will visit that page will then be able to see, in real-time, whatever you’re typing**. This has an interesting feel to it because there’s no “security buffer” as in typical chat programs: every letter you write will be shown as you write it, including occasional errors before you fix them.

Please join this EtherPad to give it a try (note your IP will show to others). [Update: I’m told EtherPa …

Read More EtherPad...

EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by, among others, two ex-Google employees*. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration. You can then share the URL of the document, and others who will visit that page will then be able to see, in real-time, whatever you’re typing**. This has an interesting feel to it because there’s no “security buffer” as in typical chat programs: every letter you write will be shown as you write it, including occasional errors before you fix them.

Please join this EtherPad to give it a try (note your IP will show to others). [Update: I’m told EtherPa …

Read More EtherPad...

EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by, among others, two ex-Google employees*. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration. You can then share the URL of the document, and others who will visit that page will then be able to see, in real-time, whatever you’re typing**. This has an interesting feel to it because there’s no “security buffer” as in typical chat programs: every letter you write will be shown as you write it, including occasional errors before you fix them.

Please join this EtherPad to give it a try (note your IP will show to others).

Yesterday, EtherPad was temporarily do …

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Numerous (10) Google Maps users are complaining that they are reliant upon Google Maps but the “Saved Locations” is empty even though some have saved 50 locations or so. Addresses are hard to remember by the human mind, so why…

Read More Google Maps Loses Saved Locations — Fix in Progress...

Ars Technica reports Microsoft is now trying a new way to incentivizes searches, this time in Canada. Microsoft launched Big Ticket Search to influence Canadians to search using Live Search. Canadians can win wide range of prizes, ranging from 2009 M…

Read More Live Search Incentivizes Canadian Searchers With Big Ticket Search...

Ars Technica reports Microsoft is now trying a new way to incentivizes searches, this time in Canada. Microsoft launched Big Ticket Search to influence Canadians to search using Live Search. Canadians can win wide range of prizes, ranging from 2009 M…

Read More Live Search Incentivizes Canadian Searchers With Big Ticket Search...

Since we have concluded video is important for your overall search efforts, I figured I follow up about a recent thread I spotted at Google Groups about the question on if Google supports MRSS as a format for Video Sitemaps….

Read More Google Does Accept MRSS Formatted Video Sitemaps...

The Shanghaiist reports:

With political arrows still being shot back and forth between Beijing and Dharamsala [home of the exiled current Dalai Lama], China has been panning out its efforts to win the propaganda battle over Tibet (…)

Lately we’ve been observing lots of Google ads pointing to the China Tibet Information Center appearing in places like Youtube … and even our Google Reader. Given the massive reach of Google’s self-serve contextual ads, this means anytime you’re viewing something related to China or more specifically Tibet anywhere on the web, that ad may appear, pointing you to http://eng.tibet.cn/ where China’s version of the Tibet story is presented. You’d think these state behemoths ar …

Read More China Tibet Information Center Google-Advertising Its Views On Tibet...

The Shanghaiist reports:

With political arrows still being shot back and forth between Beijing and Dharamsala [home of the exiled current Dalai Lama], China has been panning out its efforts to win the propaganda battle over Tibet (…)

Lately we’ve been observing lots of Google ads pointing to the China Tibet Information Center appearing in places like Youtube … and even our Google Reader. Given the massive reach of Google’s self-serve contextual ads, this means anytime you’re viewing something related to China or more specifically Tibet anywhere on the web, that ad may appear, pointing you to http://eng.tibet.cn/ where China’s version of the Tibet story is presented. You’d think these state behemoths ar …

Read More China Tibet Information Center Google-Advertising Its Views On Tibet...