Tag Archives: Google

Meet the New Browser Support

By NUAMPS on 20 Sep 2010 – 8:00 am
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Why Selective Browser Support Is Bad I have been running into more and more cases of companies that produce highly-specialized web apps only supported on IE. Even more disheartening is the fact that so many of these companies support IE 6 but have built their web apps in such a way that key functionality is [...]

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Chrome Beauty

By NUAMPS on 30 Aug 2010 – 2:00 pm
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A former NUAMP-er pointed this out to me. It’s a new interactive video for an Arcade Fire song built in HTML5. This is the best effective use of browsers that I have seen since Browser Pong. It’s alot prettier, and personalizes the video based on information you submit. It’s supposed to work best with chrome [...]

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Google Chrome Speed Tests

By NUAMPS on 6 May 2010 – 1:55 pm
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Because they have more money than they know what to do with:

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An explanation of GoogleWave and education

By Harlan Wallach on 25 Nov 2009 – 12:10 pm
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A bit of a followup to Monday’s post, this research paper written by Johanna Hane does an excellent job describing the service and the potential of GoogleWave. This paper appears to be a research paper prepared by a student for a class and nicely lays out the possibilities and the pedagogical uses of this product. [...]

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Not Google, but Bing

By NUAMPS on 25 Nov 2009 – 11:00 am
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Even when it’s not about Google, it’s about Google. There are rumors that News Corporation is considering selling exclusive search engine rights for News Corporation media (Wall Street Journal, New York Posts, Times of London, etc.) to Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Murdoch has claimed Google and other search engines effectively steal New Corporation stories. It [...]

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Viral marketing at its finest, teh googles does it again.

By Harlan Wallach on 20 Nov 2009 – 2:55 pm
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So I belong to a bunch of listservs as part of the ongoing communication aspect of my job as media architect. One of the listservs I have been on for years is “Calico-L” or the CALL (Computer Aided Language Learning) list. Wednesday after noon at the end of the day a message was sent out [...]

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Another Awesome Move by Google: Google Voice

By NUAMPS on 9 Jul 2009 – 2:41 pm
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Google started sending out invites to one of its new services this week, Google Voice.  For a detailed list of features of Google Voice check out the about page on Google’s website. The basic idea is that you can use Google Voice as a single phone number that will ring to your cell phone, home [...]

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A Search with a View

By NUAMPS on 30 Jan 2008 – 1:20 pm
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Google Labs has been developing some interesting ways of viewing your search results including a Timeline View and Map View. I played around with both views. For the Timeline View, I did a search for Alfred Hitchcock. Obviously this view benefits from searches that have some clearly defined chronology such as people and events. In [...]

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Social Science

By NUAMPS on 29 Jan 2008 – 4:44 pm
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Science in Society just launched, and already it’s getting a little better. Today we added social bookmarking features. Visitors can now add featured articles to del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati, and their own Google Bookmarks. We hope this allows people to share what they find interesting, and it furthers the goal of the site, to “make the [...]

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NU Video Presentation

By NUAMPS on 16 Jan 2008 – 4:57 pm
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On January 8, Harlan and Al Cubbage, Vice President for University Relations, presented NUVideo: New video efforts at play at the university in which they spoke about the rise in video production in the NU community and the emerging outlets for that content. Al discussed the BigTen Network, and Harlan covered our new partnership with [...]

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