I'm a big Google fan, but I'm not quite sure about Chrome yet.  I saw tons of Twitter chatter yesterday going on about it, so first thing this morning I had to give it a try. Yes it has many features I had seen mentioned yesterday, but the very first thing that struck me was where is the toolbar and why couldn't I figure out how where it was located. After a very few searches I found I wasn't alone in looking for this feature.  Harry McCracken at Technologizer  had the same thoughts and explains more of his troublesome experience in trying to install the tool.  ...

Google finally gets into the Wiki game by re-launching the product they acquired last year (JotSpot) under a a new name: Google Sites. See this description of the product via TechCrunch blog. I'll be trying it!

Ad Age Audio Reports - Google is talking about adsense as a content distribution technology. Google adsense recognizes the context of a web page and delivers relevant content. Currently that content is advertising. But in the near future that could be ANY type of content. Are you following me here? Doesn't this sound a lot like "what you need, when you need it"? What if the content delivered was training content? Just in time. Just what you want. Right when you needed it. This is why I like staying tuned into the Advertising and Marketing world. They get all the ...

This post isn't about Google Gears as much as it is about what it signals to the learning industry. When I get more ... , why not just build that capability right into the browser? Google did. Its called Google Gears and its just another ... . But now Google Reader functions OFFLINE...bye bye client side readers. Remember, MOST of what we learn and know ... release of Google Gears MediaWiki (and ALL wikis for that matter) become infinitly more powerful once they re-code to take advantage of the offline capabilities of Google Gears. Now you can take that corporate wiki with you on your ...

At last - I return. To many of you I may have appeared to have taken a previous post on sleep and memory a little too literally. While I now consider myself fully consolidated, what with holidays and a surge in demand for my e-learning services to contend with, it's proven difficult to post at the frequency I intended. So I figure I'm in need of some performance support... On that note, ...

For the first time in awhile, I think Microsoft has Google beat. At least in terms of widget development for dummies.... Case in point - the documentation for Gadget development from Google . vs. Popfly Easy cheezy for non-coders like myself to build spiffy gadgets. Microsoft provided excellent baseline code for us to edit. Microsoft spent a lot of time focusing on developer tools and user interfaces on this product. The only current gripe I have about Popfly (and Google Gadgets) - my computer slows to a crawl during development. I'll be posting my experiments here ...

It's that time of year again, a time to reflect on trends past and future. Sparked by Tom King's comparison of authoring tools I thought I'd take a fresh look at what Google Trends can tell us about e-learning and the wider training industry. There is a seemingly endless debate over how to spell the name of what we do. Are we "e-learning" or "elearning" or "eLearning"? Google Trends ...

I just tried video chat on Google and it was easy and cool. It worked really well. I think this is another important step to improved communication on the web. I really need to get a laptop with an integrated camera and mic. I wonder if this is enough justification to get a new Mac laptop? It will also be interesting to see if you can embed a chat module into other pages like Blogger and Google Sites. Time to experiment.

... then click the Wikipedia entry for whatever you’re “googling.”  I think this is certainly true of many ... actually sick of Google. Although it is a huge part of my personal learning and work environment I’m just well, blah. I think this general blah came from a few too many “according to Google…” sightings. Don’t you just want to say, “Google is not a person.” According to the Google search I just did…might be ... revisit the things that make Google such a large part of my life. In the simplest form, Google is simply a search ...

Rich Hoeg, author of the eContent blog , sent me some links that I think are worth sharing. My favorite is a link to his post showing some Engineering Domain searches Rich created with Google Co-Op . Wink is a very cool little screencapture tool I've never heard of before. Its Windows only, but at least its freeware. Thanks for sharing, Rich! This is some great new stuff!

My office has been playing around with the Google Sites wiki for the last few weeks ( I've written about Google Sites before. ) We've been using it to collaboratively author mini-reports as well as staff meeting agendas. I would like to try to use a wiki site to track an online course development project. It would be a place where the project team could define goals, publish milestones, post files and monitor progress on project activities. I think Google Sites would ... my next project. Today I came across someone else who has built a nice Google Sites template for project ...

GoogleSearch_elearning_page14 Originally uploaded by Brent Schlenker . Googling eLearning: Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development hits at page 14. http://elearndev.blogspot.com Not that I'm concerned about that sort of thing...ya know ;-) UPDATE: Good news! A google search on elearning development puts elearndev.blogspot.com on the first page...item 3 no less.

Lively Google has started a SecondLife type virtual world called Lively.  I am loading it now. The avatars in the pictures look really interesting, kind of Tim-Burton-Esc". It is taking a little time for the "room" to materialize, but still pretty cool.  There is a lot going on. I think they wanted to make sure that it wasn't like SecondLife. I am sure this will be the topic on conversation for some time to come in the blogesphere. Blogged with the Flock ...

Part of what we do in the eLearning community is help others become better at what they do by offering instructionally sounds learning opportunities. Well, we can also help people get smarter by introducing them to time saving techniques, or Life Hacks as they have become known. My favorite Lifehacker is Merlin Mann of 43 Folders . This is Merlin's presentation at Google on Getting Your Inbox to Zero . Many of Merlin's suggestions are based on the book Getting Things Done and he references the GTD process. I do recommend the book and implementing some sort of process in your ...

I discovered this post via Google Alerts that I have set up for "learning design". ( If you don't use Google Alerts...you should. Basically setup a term or phrase and everytime anyone on the internet posts something with that word or term then you get an email "alert". ) Shelly is a Graduate student at the University of Oklahoma and in her words... "I am obtaining my masters in Nursing Education and taking a web-based instruction class online as an elective. A requirement of the class is to set up a blog account and keep a biweekly reflection jounal to discuss the week's readings ...

Yesterday, Google released the beta version of Chrome, their new browser - "a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier". Download Google Chrome for Windows/Vista Google ...

Must be a cold day in hell. Check this out . NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Verizon Wireless will break with the rest of the U.S. cell phone industry and become the first mobile operator to let customers use any phone on its network, the company announced Tuesday. All I've got to say is WOW! First Google, now THIS! What's next...FREE iPhones for all AT&T subscribers? This is great news for users and for developers of mobile learning content. Looks like Verizon and Google will battle it out to buy the C block. Can you imagine cell phone speeds at the rate of cable or DSL? 2008 ...

Let the battle begin! Remember Netscape? As most everyone knows, Google has entered the browser wars with Chrome. A blog I regularily monitor, DemoGirl , has a great, high quality screencast which demonstrates Chromes' key features.

Do you Google? Would you like to be automatically informed of relevant Google results that match a query you pre-define? Does tracking those Google results via RSS appeal to you? Assuming the answers to these questions are "yes", then you need to use Google Alert . This service allows you to create RSS feeds and/or email notifications against your Google query results. Over time, you may also track new content which satisfies your query options. A basic account to use Google Alert is free. I've created an updated Google Alert tutorial / screencast which reviews the ...

Just saw this on TechCrunch - Google Acquires Wiki Collaboration Company Jotspot . Interesting timing in that I just posted about Matt Glotzbach's presentation at the Web 2.0 event. This suggests that Google will have a Wiki tool (that's partyly aimed at the enterprise) as part of their Google Office. Google already has blogger. Google now has a great wiki tool. VERY INTERESTING.

... received great feedback and learned new information that bears sharing. Google Chrome The new Google Chrome browser is still in its infancy. Updates will be many and often during its beta phase. Google keeps a news feed to ... , but others are issued to the public. Google Chrome updates itself when public updates are released. I was thoroughly enjoying the speed of Google Chrome when I authored the first post on this topic. However, I've found myself spending ... ! View Poll    Tagged: browser, browsers, chrome, firefox, flock, google    ...

... technology, and Content development...until now. Has everyone seen or read about Google Apps for Education ? "Imagine ... ideas more easily. With Google Apps Education Edition's free communication, collaboration and publishing tools ... scheme and content. Manage your users through a web-based control panel, or use the APIs to integrate Google Apps into your existing systems. Best of all, it's all hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software to download, install or ... ... Google Learning Management System ? I didn't either, at first, until I started thinking about it as a techno-geek ...

While it’s not video conferencing, Google has added video functionality to Gmail. Many tools (notably skype) already offer similar (but superior) functionality. I’m interested in where Google will go with this. It would be exciting to have video conferencing options available for educators who are already using Google Docs, gmail, and other services.

One of my favorite podcast, Harvard Ideacast , just published a podcast on the process innovation at Google. Before you think ... my organization is not like Google ... give the podcast a listen. It talks about practical things that any company can try. Reverse Engineering Google's Innovation Machin ...

OK...so here is the obligatory link to the cool comic drawn by Scott McCloud about Google browser . Of course I downloaded it and played around with for a bit but <yawn> this is going to take some work to get me more fired up about it. Two things I do like though - One, is the use of a visual artist like Scott McCloud (but not Connor ... perfectly diverse, overly cheerful board meeting - I'm just going to scream - so what was my point? - Oh yeah, good job Google ... people have heard of Google that it may further crack the stranglehold that IE has on the enterprise and people ...

Google is going after Microsoft's jugular ... the office suite. If you've not paid any attention to Google's entry into the software productivity suite, now is a good time to familiarize yourself with Google's efforts, particularly when you understand that Google is bringing offline tools to the table ... yes Google is starting to offer software that runs ... way of repeating itself. Setting up yourself to use Google Docs in quite simple. Just go to http://docs.google.com/ . If already have a Google account, just log in. If not, create an account. Regardless, the software suite is free and ...

Absolutely great post that shows where a search engine like Google will be going in the future: ...

Looks like Jaiku landed an interesting deal with Google . That definetely enhances the possibilities of opening Jaiku to a better mobile connectivity as well.

In writing my blog post earlier this week I saw a blurb in the WordPress control panel about Gears with a link to the WordPress blog . I like bike riding, so the word “gears” got my attention and I followed the link. WordPress is now using Gears to speed up web site load times. What is Gears ? It’s a plug-in and API developed by Google that’s designed to speed up web site load times by caching content on your local computer. It’s sort of ... from the Google Gears Settings. When I allowed WordPress to use Gears it downloaded 212 items to my local computer ...

Yesterday I provided annotated screenshots of Google Sites basic editing functionality. Today I will expand upon that start with a review (and more annotated screenshots) of the Google Sites basic templates which include: web pages, announcements, dashboards, file cabinets and lists. You may either click upon any image given below to view a non annotated screenshot, or download / view the full annotated versions (ppt file). Link to my Google Site, Engineering Learning , to see theses templates in action. Create Content - Root Page Create Content - Basic Web Page ...