On Saturday morning, I cracked a tooth. Having not seen a dentist in over a decade, and having shunned the dental profession most of my life, I had no idea what to do. Being the hapless nerd I am, I immediately tweeted about it. Fortunately, I received a flood of responses, on both Twitter and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'google'
Crowdsourcing My Mouth
August 23rd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Business, Hawaii, Health, People, Social Media
Tags: dentists·google·reviews·seo·socialgraph·socialnetworks
Google Street View in Hawaii
November 9th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Hawaii, Lost, Technology, The Web
Hawaii is finally included in the “Street View” of Google Maps. The news was announced today in a great post on the Official Google Blog by one Laura Melahn, Product Marketing Manager, who says she was born and raised on Oahu. She links to Waimea Bay and Iolani Palace. There’s even a specially curated collection [...]
Tags: google·maps·streetview
Google Adds Hawaiian Language
August 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Hawaii, People, Television, The Web
For many, Google and its search engine is quickly becoming the world’s central clearinghouse for information, and its web interface supports over a hundred different languages. Now, thanks to the efforts of Keola Donaghy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, you can now use Google in Hawaiian. Keola, who teaches at the Ka Haka [...]
Google Street View in Hawaii?
April 17th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Hawaii, Technology, The Web
Google Street View is an immensely popular, though sometimes controversial, feature of its mapping products (like Google Maps and Google Earth). It allows you to go beyond “zooming in” on a map or aerial photo and get a driver’s eye view of cities and neighborhoods. It’s available all across the U.S., Japan, Australia and New [...]
Tags: car·docrock·ebay·google·map·maps·omidyar·streetview·van
Google Earth ‘Oceans’ Reveal Underwater Hawaii
February 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hawaii, Technology
Today, Google announced the addition of an “Oceans” layer to its popular and powerful Google Earth software. With the Google Earth 5.0 upgrade, you can now zoom in and navigate the hills and canyons of the ocean floor the same way you always could navigate through mountains and cities on land. Fortunately, the waters off Hawaii [...]
Tags: earth·globe·google·googleearth·map·oceans·seafloor·virtual
Video Chat in Gmail
November 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology, The Web, Video
Taking another bold move into Skype‘s territory, Google has announced the addition of voice and video chat to Gmail. Interestingly, audio and video chats are currently available only as an extension to the Google Talk feature within Google’s free webmail service, and not via its standalone Google Talk chat client application. Since the new Gmail [...]
Search for Local Coupons in Google Maps
October 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Business, Hawaii, The Web
Looking for a deal? Google it! The search giant (and up-and-coming global empire) has quietly introduced the ability to search for printable coupons in Google Maps. As local search blogger Mike Blumenthal notes, apart from some coupon-related domain names spotted last month, Google’s work on the service has largely stayed below the radar. Nonetheless, its [...]
Tags: coupons·couponsearch·google·googlelocal·googlemaps·valpac
Google Grabs Jaiku
October 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · The Web
The “activity stream and presence sharing service” Jaiku has been snapped up by Google. Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: living a fast-paced, on-the-go lifestyle is easier (and a lot of fun), but it’s more difficult to keep track of everyone when they’re running around at [...]
Tags: google·jaiku·lifestreams·microblogging·presence·twitter
