Google Docs

MischMasch 2008-04-09

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Flickr users can now add videos too. The clips can be 90 seconds long and may have up to 150MB. Flickr calls them long photos. Right now the upload is only possbile for Flickr Pro memebers. It seems up to now the videos contain more dog content than cat content.

Yahoo! announced the aquisation of IndexTools, a web analytics software for online marketing, for an undisclosed price.

Google Docs has some new features: Google Presentation export to the PowerPoint (.ppt) file format and advanced searches. Moreover search criterias can be saved when needed more often. To my surprise I realised that Google Presentation can be edited in Safari now.

For the first time since 2002 Andy Baio has redesigned his web site Waxy.org.

MischMasch 2008-04-01

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Flickr have added the new Find your friends feature. Now you can look for people using Flickr by importing your friends using Gmail, Yahoo! and Hotmail address books without any password sharing. Hopefully soon more web applications will go the same way and won’t ask for login/password anymore.

Google has started to roll out an offline version of Google Docs powered by Google Gears. So when will there be Google Gears support for Google Mail?

Some April Fools’ Day hoaxes: MOO.com announced the Mighty Card. BarCamp Leipzig has been relocated to Köln. Erik Spiekermann has become a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and was appointed to Microsoft’s board of Directors.