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It's bonus time! Have a retweet.

(boss to employees) Owing to the economic climate, we've rejigged our compensation structure. Henceforth, you'll be paid entirely in link love and Google juice.

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With friends like these

(war correspondent in front of tank convoy) The rivalry between Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect took a surprising turn today...

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It's lonely at the top

5 December, 2008
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by Rob Cottingham

Google Reader, our newsreader of choice here at Social Signal (hunter-destroyer droids constantly prowl the premises, looking for holdouts still using Bloglines... there's one now! KABOOM!)...

...anyway, Google Reader has launched a redesign. It's crisper, cleaner, simpler and faster.

But apparently, there's a downside: you'll have a lot fewer friends.

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Fear will keep the { display:inline } - fear of this browser.

(stunned-looking web developer) I sense a great disturbance in the web development community, as if millions of voices cried out in terror. I fear somebody's released yet another frigging browser.

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Now, those Squidoo lensmasters - they know how to parTAY

(party-goer to a friend, observing a group of guests) Good luck getting a word in edgewise... they're all Knol experts.

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A little ambiguity gets Google off the hook over Taiwan

16 July, 2008
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by Rob Cottingham

You may well deal with user interface issues all the time - but have you ever handled one that had geopolitical implications?

Consider Google Analytics, the free web analysis tool that gives you an in-depth look at the people coming to your site and what they're doing there.

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JotSpot is now Google Sites... and the lines blur

User-friendly online tools make managing information easy - inside and outside your team

28 February, 2008
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by Rob Cottingham

Wondering what happened to Google's acquisition of hosted-wiki-on-steroids-provider JotSpot? You're looking at it.

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I just discovered that Google Docs finally work in the Safari web browser. (Up until now, Mac users had to access their Google Docs via Safari.) I think we may have the iPhone to thank for this; all those iPhone users wanted mobile access to their documents! I wonder what else the iPhone will finally bring to the Mac platform.

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Google, MyYahoo! and Netvibes have a competitor: you

Drupal module allows you to build your own homepage

20 October, 2006
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by Rob Cottingham

For a while now, folks like Google, MyYahoo! and Netvibes have been vying to be your ho

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First look: Google Page Creator

4 April, 2006
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by Rob Cottingham

Late last night, I received the e-mail from Google. No message, just a headline: "Google Page Creator: sign up!!" It's still in an invitation-only beta, but here's what I found:

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