Tag Archives: Google Maps
thechromesource Daily: Links for 9/7/10
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Will 30 results per page be a part of Google’s Search event that is being held in San Francisco tomorrow?
Mozilla has launched its own browser-based gaming site called Mozilla Labs Gaming.
Here’s how Google plans to make money from its Maps service.
A new OpenID feature makes it really easy for those who use Yahoo to set up a Googe Account with a single click.
The Stable and Beta channels of Chrome browser have been updated with an autocomplete fix among other updates.
thechromesource Daily: Links for 7/13/10
Posted on 13. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Google still has a Map problem even though they been able have Search continue to run inside mainland China.
Web photo editor Picinik is now a part of Google’s Picasa photo gallery service, most likely leading to Chrome OS integration.
Google Fiber Communities now has its own website; is there gigabit networks coming soon for some lucky locales?
ZDNet is reporting that human raters play a role in a site’s PageRank along with its algorithm.
Conde Nast’s Mike Haney would like you to know that the Jolicloud cloud operating system is readily available.
thechromesource Daily: Links for 5/31/10
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Greg Farnum. 0 Comments
The new face of newspaper publishing? MicroApps from The Guardian and Google AppEngine debut.
Security in depth: Chrome now offers a new HTML5 “sandbox” attribute in iframes.
Think you already know about Google Maps? This blog post points out a wealth of little known features and tricks.
Google Buzz for mobile is now available for more devices thanks to a new XHTML version of the Buzz website.
Who gets what? Revenue sharing formulas for Google and its AdSense partners explained.
Facebook Overtakes Google in Traffic
Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments
For as long as Google has been around, it has been a very popular site and as long as I can remember it has been the top ranking site in the world. That’s no surprise seeing as how they offer the best search functionality of any engine out there. Most people need a starting point when they are on the web, and search is the way to go for that.
But Facebook has been coming up in Google’s rearview mirror, and according to Hitwise, has overtaken Google as the most heavily trafficked site on the web (albeit slightly). Take a look at the following graph:
You can see that Facebook a year ago was not even close to comparing to Google’s share of traffic. Now the two together combine for over 14% of total web traffic.
But the search engine giant has been eclipsed before. According to Google Blogoscoped, MySpace passed by Google for a time in 2007. I know that’s hard to believe now seeing as how MySpace has been on a path of decline, but this tidbit is interesting to note because many MySpace users have migrated to Facebook, resulting in a slow exodus that has resulted in the traffic trend that we are seeing today.
Keep in mind that this is Facebook versus Google’s main search page, not the plethora of other services that Google offers like Gmail, Maps and Docs. I also wonder how much of a factor the recent introduction of Google’s real time search feature has contributed to the inflow of internet users to Facebook – many of them signing up and becoming regular users of the site.
How to Use Geolocation in Chrome Browser
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 4 Comments
The developer channel of Chrome has been updated today and the geolocation API is now built in. This allows developers to now work on apps and extensions that can take into account a user’s geographic coordinates. I’m not sure specifically what type of applications would incorporate this feature, but I could imagine this bringing a new tool in terms of localized social networking that could be pretty useful.
To use the geolocation feature, you must have the Google Chrome developer channel release of Chrome (version 5.0.342.1) and you must run a commnad line switch of “–enable-geolocation” when executing the chrome.exe application.
The release notes referenced that you could test this by going to http://maps.google.com and it would recognize that the feature was turned on. However, I could not get it to work at that URL. Instead I found another link in the notes to go to http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/m which must be the UK URL for the mobile maps app. When I went to this site, I was prompted with this messgae in Chrome:
I clicked the “Allow” button, and up popped my location. If you have ever used the Google Maps application on your smartphone, it is exactly like that, with the major difference being that you computer has much more processing power with which to build some useful tools and games around.
This has to be done every time you start Chrome if want this experimental API to be turned on. There are probably going to be some interesting apps that will be developed for this, and it is clear that this is a move further towards mobile computing for Chromium. Having this on the browser is only a start for where this is going in an operating system architecture. With that being said, what kind of apps do you envision there being with the geolocation API?
