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Google Notebook Extension for Firefox 3.5

Well, I read the reviews for Firefox 3.5 which were favorable to say the least, downloaded it and fired it up. Then the dialogue appeared: The following extensions are incompatible blah blah ……… Google Notebook. I was not happy, I rely on this extension to a level that is stupid. I spend a lot of time online and this extension enabled me to highlight just about anything, right click and save to Google Notebook. The long and short of this is that everything that I have come across that I have deemed interesting or potentially useful is part of one, now huge, searchable database.

Other Google notebook users are much more organized than me and use the tool in a much more organized way, having different notebooks for different topics, tagged and organized. To me this took away the main point which was an ultra fast, ultra convenient tool, that did one thing very very well.

Anyway, enough of the rambling, The author of the blog, Google System has come up with a brilliantly simple way of installing the Google Notebook extension on Firefox 3.5

Download this:

http://dl.google.com/firefox/google-notebook.xpi

The file was at this location yesterday, if it is no longer available here or at the link in the instructions please let me know in the comments.

Then follow these instructions.

* save the extension to your computer: right-click and select “save link as”.
* download 7-zip, an excellent open-source software for archiving files, and install it.
* right-click on the extension (google-notebook.xpi), click on “7-zip” and then on “open archive”. Right-click on “install.rdf”, select “Edit” and replace “3.0.*” with “3.5.*”. Save the file, close Notepad and update the archive.
* now you can drag the .xpi file to your browser and install the extension.

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This is bare bones, go to this site for much more info including a good discussion about the merits of other note taking software and a link and instructions for Internet Explorer users.

Google Notebook is being discontinued although it will still be available for existing users, Google argue that Google Docs have made it redundant. This is crap, they occupy very different niches. The company doesn’t get much wrong but this is one decision that should be reversed, after all Google are all about the concept of the “Cloud”, i.e. remote applications and data storage, and it doesn’t get much more cloud than Google Notebook.

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Google Profiles

Here is something that I didn’t know. Google now lets you create a profile. The more detail entered the higher up in a search for your name your page comes. This is probably positioning to get into the social networking thing, apparently there are similarities between the Google offering and Facebook.

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Techcrunch wrong on Google Twitter talks

There will be loads of rumors and guesses flying around about this story over the days to come. In a nutshell, Techcrunch jumped the gun.

Rumors are more fun though so this is what you can expect to hear:

Google are going to take over Twitter (possible)
Google and Twitter are going to go into partnership (various possibilities here and not just search as Michael Arlington of Techcrunch thinks. He is already doing the ‘I was right’ dance despite the fact that all that is known is written at the top of this post and nowhere is search mentioned. It is a fair best guess but no more as there are just as many possibilities on the feed side of the equation, granted this is no more than a hunch on my part but I think that we are about one or two good ideas away from something that is really going to revolutionize the way we use the internet.

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Gmail panic button

UPDATE 27th March 2009: CAN NOW BE SET for 0, 5 or 10 seconds

This looks useful

A delay on sending email. Sounds like, once activated, if the Gmail user hits send there is then a 5 second period before the message is actually sent and an abort button.

This really is one of those why didn’t someone think of this years ago ideas and not just with Gmail but all web and desktop email clients.

No more sending messages out without noted attachments, no more emails with a slightly too snarky tone- bliss, I can now come across as at least marginally competent.

One minor complaint, a longer, or even better a user determined interval would be the way to go, 5 seconds is not nearly enough as illustrated by my usual timeline:

Hit send
Seconds 1 – 4.5 great, that overdue chore is out of the way time for a coffee
Seconds 4.5 – 10 continued feeling of self satisfaction
Seconds 11 – 12 uneasy feeling that utopia is about to become dystopia
Seconds 13 – 14 realization dawns

Seconds 15 start work on a plan to mitigate damage caused by:

a.Sending a confidence to the wrong person
b.Putting one too few zero’s in a ballpark estimate
c.Sending the draft version with ‘suck, crap’ and ‘get your act together’, instead of the one with ‘room for improvement provided a concerted effort is made by all sides’.

Or at least to link the required attachment.

So, a plea to Google – 20 seconds please – it will take me more than five seconds to find the panic button if I’m panicking.

Google testing the social networking waters

Introducing Google’s new Social Web Blog

Monday, February 9, 2009 | 1:45 PM

Labels: Google Friend Connect, OpenSocial

We think the web is better when it’s social. Currently, you have friends locked up in one or more social networks, social applications that work on only a few sites, and multiple usernames and passwords to remember. It can be better, and we are developing tools to make “any app, any site, any friends” a reality.

We are launching this blog for anyone interested or involved in helping to make the web more social. Whether you own a site and want to add social features to increase community engagement, or you’re developing a great social application, this blog is for you.

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