March 30, 2007
One Button to Rule Them All
Nowadays I always bookmark an article I like to delicious. Frequently I use the Google Toolbar “Send To” function to save the same article in my Gmail “database.” And lastly I often want to Digg the article if I think it deserves it. Shouldn’t I be able to do all three things with a single click? Why do I have to futz around doing these things separately?
Again, if I knew anything about programming, I’d write a little thing that would accomplish all three tasks with a single click.
Cat: | Time: 11:11 am (utc+8)
March 30th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Don’t bother with programming. Get a Mac. Apple has taken scripting in Unix and created Automator, making it easy to create your own Easy Button:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/automator/
March 30th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Bernie: Thanks for the tip; I’ll look into it (though I don’t have a Mac and have no plans to get one).
March 30th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
I don’t use any of those services/websites but my guess is if you use firefox, there is a plugin out there that will do that.
March 30th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Dan: If it’s out there I haven’t found it, and I am a faithful Firefoxer.
March 30th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
I love using Google Notebook for that sorta thing
March 31st, 2007 at 11:51 am
One Way: Can you explain in detail how you use Google Notebook? (I’ve never used it.)
March 31st, 2007 at 6:42 pm
First off, the Google Notebook just came out of Beta yesterday.
Google Notebook has a download-able browser extension, right? Once you install it, you’ll have a little ‘gnotebook’ icon in your status bar (above your clock). whenever you want to save someting, just click on the icon.
But not only do you get the icon, you also get something optional that may be more of what you’re looking for.
Now that you’ve installed the browser extension, anytime you RIGHT CLICK, one of your options will be “Note This (Google Notebook)”. so, click & save.
Whenever you want to see all you’ve saved click on the notebook icon, then expand, & your google notebook expands to a webpage where you can add notes & headers. & you can export Google Notebook now to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
I use the thing a lot.
March 31st, 2007 at 9:23 pm
One Way: Cool, thanks for the tip. That will take the place of my Gmail article archive “database” I guess. Instead of using Send To from the Toolbar, I’ll just clip it into the Notebook instead (quicker). And I can see that I’m going to be adding a lot fewer things to delicious since I’m directly storing them to my Google Notebook “database” instead. Two birds killed with one stone, great!
March 31st, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Nice alt POV:
Here’s another excerpt:
Google total information awareness potential
Google is gathering as much information as possible about our online activities in the interest of serving up more targeted ads across more and more locations. Google continues to introduce new services limited only by what can have an advertisement placed alongside the content. Future products might include data gathering and targeting as a primary business goal with the intent of collecting higher advertising revenues elsewhere on the network on a future visit. Yahoo! just announced they will serve advertisements based on surfing behavior. Where does Google stand in its behavioral targeting?
Google is already well on its way to building an information awareness network on its own sites as well as the sites of hundreds of thousands of willing webmasters and millions of desktop clients. What is the current state of Google’s information network?
1. Google has the ability to track and analyze every web search query, news request, and television or video browsing.
2. Google Alerts send strong signals about your interests and help focus advertising relevance.
3. Every e-mail sent, received, or drafted in Gmail or every instant message or voice conversation delivered through Google Talk increases the intelligence of the advertising machine as it learns more about your casual interests.
4. Social networking services such as Orkut analyze your friends and their interest to better understand your potential influences.
5. Google Analytics and AdSense tracks your movement on every site with the service enabled, creating a behavioral profile.
6. Webmasters can verify their domains of control using Google Sitemaps. Reviews and other Google site content can easily be associated with a Google account.
7. Google Toolbar picks up every site you visit, regardless of the site’s participation in a Google supported tracking program.
8. As an Internet service provider blanketing entire cities with free wireless access, Google will have access to the full online activities of entire populations including their frequented locations. Trail programs are planned for Mountain View and San Francisco.
9. Not on a Google network? That’s OK, just route all your traffic through Google Secure Access.
10. Not online? Google Desktop will index all of your files and connect to the central database once you connect to the grid to update your advertising profile.
All that is missing right now is all these different data collection tools talking to each other to create one large profile per user. Microsoft could compete in the space by recording every web action on a computer running Windows but such actions would most likely be seen as abusing a monopoly. Google has the ability to silently deploy cross pollination of its advertising platforms across a multitude of services whenever it would like to flip the switch.
Scientia est potentia. Knowledge is power.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I noticed that you post the same ‘cute chick’ for three times in a row. Finally hooked up with someone huh?
Just kidding,
I know that she is a japanese underwear/lingerie model, unfortunately I don’t know her name. Can you suggest a name?
April 1st, 2007 at 9:33 pm
m_a_o: You’ve got a good eye and she will be featured for at least the next couple of weeks as well.
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:18 am
Who is she?? All I can say is “wow”.