Gordon's Notes

Alta Vista was a very good search engine. I didn't feel like I was missing much in early 90s; I could answer many questions easily. Then...

Google Maps seems unbeatable. Every time Apple does an upgrade Google does three. It seems Apple can't win. But Google has weaknesses....

Remember when Google killed Google Reader Shares ? October 31, 2011.  RSS had been ailing for years by then . Google Reader shut down a coup...

This came in the mail today. I assume every subscriber got one, but I’ve not heard much chatter. The return address had Attn: Paul Ferrall...

Two articles from my share feed today … Transit systems are growing too complex for the human mind … “What makes it messy is the presen...

How the heck did I miss this? Why wasn’t it all over my feeds? It’s sad Google actually had write a paper to prove the self-evident, but I g...

Google Reader died just 3 years ago . It feels a lot longer, I’m probably thinking of when Google burned Reader Social in favor of their G+ ...

If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare institutions can’t easily share data between computer systems, just take a look at Calendaring in iOS...

XKCD ’s Randall Munroe , the notorious interstellar  sAI , has published a simplified vocabulary explanation of Special and General Relativi...

My main workaround for eBook misery has been to buy from Google Play , strip the Adobe DRM , and store the ePub (really should be written EP...

I knew Google Trends was “a thing”, but it had fallen off my radar. Until I wondered if Craigslist was going the way of Rich Text Format ....

I first published a Google Quick, Sick and Dead list in January 2009 , at the dawn of Dapocalypse . This was six months after the Battle of ...

This is a weird time in software. Lots of things are going away, but few new things are appearing. As best I can tell Windows software died...

I played with Orkut briefly, so I received a shutdown notice for the 10 yo service around July 1. Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger a...

Revisiting  something I wrote 14 years ago  reminded me of the tools I use to think about the world. Once those tools were conversation, pap...

If you're a longtime user of Google properties, it's not unusual to come across abandoned and neglected properties. Weed infested, b...

For an old school technology geek, reared on local file stores and data cables and file formats and backups and (ugh) synchronization , the...

It goes something like this: Remove my personal (iPhone) mobile number from my work Google Voice (GV) account and set that number to forwa...

Inspired by this Rumproarious post on the effects of the Google Reader shutdown announcement  of mid-March 2013 (data excludes custom domain...

Over the two years Google has knifed a number of open net protocols , including CalDAV, RSS, XMPP, Atom and CardDAV and they split Chrome fr...