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The Bivings Report - Sep 2, 2008
As if our web developers didn't already have enough standards-fudging and code-juggling to optimize websites for every conceivable end-user browser, Google launched the public release of Google Chrome today — and I was …
Also tagged: internet, web 2 0, usability, open source, chrome, google products, google chrome, google chrome reaction, chrome review, new browser
The Bivings Report - Jul 28, 2008
Today, the Internet is abuzz about a new search engine called Cuil, which claims to return “better results” than Google. I did a few quick searches and wasn’t that impressed. As an example, when I search for our …
Also tagged: search
The Bivings Report - Jul 28, 2008
I've eaten a lot of crow in my day…but for the first time, I am going to announce it online. I have been completely overly critical of Google Labs. For many months, I have lamented at Google Labs' lame attempts to …
Also tagged: blogs
The Bivings Report - Jul 9, 2008
Admittedly, I am a Google fanboy. I use Gmail for the bulk of my correspondence, and keep track of deadlines in Google Calendar. I get all of my RSS feeds through Google Reader, and collaborate on documents with others …
Also tagged: other, productivity, social networking, mmo, google labs
The Bivings Report - Jun 20, 2008
One of the biggest tiffs that I've had with Google is that their customer support is well…lacking. If you have any problems with Google Apps other than the most rudimentary "How do I?" question, you are going to run …
Also tagged: internet
The Bivings Report - Jun 10, 2008
At one point in my life, I considered myself to be an avid reader. Over the years, I have noticed that my reading habits have changed — my literature agenda includes only required assignments and the occasional …
Also tagged: education, technology, other, internet, social responsibility
The Bivings Report - Jun 4, 2008
The Bivings Group is a busy web development firm, and as such we don’t always spend the time we should on our own websites. As a consultant, you focus so much on helping clients that sometimes you don’t spend the time …
Also tagged: blogs, tips, tools, search, marketing, wordpress
The Bivings Report - May 3, 2008
At the New Communications Forum conference last week, Chris O’Brien from the San Jose Mercury News mentioned during a presentation that 2/3rds of the traffic to the paper’s website comes from news aggregators (like …
Also tagged: monitoring, newspaper study
The Bivings Report - Mar 14, 2008
Writing about Google, Inc. hits close to home, quite literally, as I am a past townie of Lenoir, North Carolina, which will soon become Google’s latest data farm. As I walked around my hometown a week ago, I began to …
Also tagged: search
The Bivings Report - Mar 3, 2008
In mid-November I wrote a post featuring nine technology predictions for late 2007 and early 2008. Some of those were quite forward-looking (up to 6 months). Some were not. Below I go over the predictions I made whose …
Also tagged: technology, other, internet, hd dvd, mobile, blackberry, wii, blu ray, sprint, predictions, 2008, 2007, cell, openid, eee