A little late but I only now found this myself. Bless you StumbleUpon for bringing me hours and hours of entertainment which could have been spent doing something more productive.
Until recently I hadn’t even realised how many Google products I use on a daily, or at least weekly basis. While I was installing the FeedBurner plugin earlier today I noticed that FeedBurner has been acquired by Google as well, and that made me have a look at my Google dashboard to see just what other Google products I use, and I was surprised by how many it is.
Obviously Google Search is one of them. Still one of the best search engines out there, and they keep adding new features and options to it which make finding what you are looking for even easier. Moving on we have other obvious products such as YouTube, GMail, Google Maps and Google Talk. For productivity and office related things I have Google Docs, Reader, Wave, Translate and Subscribed Links.
As if that wasn’t enough I use a whole bunch of products for my web developer shenanigans: AdSense, Analytics, FeedBurner, and Webmaster Tools. Then there’s Chrome browser as well which has become my browser of choice when I only want to surf around. Quite a bit isn’t it? I for one look forward to the near future (Google OS) and more distant future (Google Skynet).
I’m pretty sure that soon enough, if it hasn’t happened already, Google will know me better than I know myself. Scary.
I hope you all have a great Christmas with your families and many many presents. Great food and drinks, and all round great stuff. Enjoy your days off, and hopefully you’ll get everything you wished for. Merry Christmas.
This just made my day. I certainly hope that Rage for Christmas Number 1 achieves what they set out to do. Would certainly be a nice Christmas surprise.
Update: and they did it! Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner by clinching the number one spot!
Noticed more and more people recently blogging and talking in general about formspring.me and decided to have a look at it myself. So what exactly is it? Basically what it does is it lets anyone ask you a question and you can then answer it. Like a twitter question-answer thing.
Someone posts a short question on your formspring profile and you answer it in a short manner. So I got myself an account as well, so if you have any questions you’d like to ask me then go ahead. If you already have an account there, post a link in comments and I’ll follow you.
Seems like something that could be either a lot of fun, or something that could get boring and frustrating really quickly.