The Google Blog has a recent post entitled ‘Overview of our Accessible Services‘. Last time I looked at Google’s search code (which was only last week actually) I remember it being a particularly messy mix of invalid HTML and table soup (but this is Google: who for some reason are exempt from producing structureless mark-up on their main website in the 21st century, unlike almost everyone else on the planet).
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Accessibility guideline #1: Don’t claim it if you’re not
Saturday, July 14th, 2007Yahoo! 7? I have been out of Australia too long
Thursday, April 27th, 2006Yahoo! Australia and Channel Seven seemed to have teamed up to create Yahoo! 7. To me that sounds like an Enid Blyton-esque series about a bunch of seven young hooligans who like drinking Bundy on the gold coast. I wonder when this happened? I only left Australia in November! Of course it makes sense for Channel Seven to hook up with Yahoo! to compete with Nine MSN.
What’s next — Ten Google? I seriously doubt that, but surely Channel Ten will follow suit soon. The Big Brother site is currently hosted by 3, perhaps Ten plans to focus more on the mobile market rather than the broader web market? Considering that Big Brother was previously partnered with iPrimus, the shift in sponsor could well indicate this strategy.
Google Calendar
Thursday, April 13th, 2006Another week, another new Google product, another new post about Google product.
Google Calender has finally been released to the public, and it looks very slick. But one surprise with it is that the developers behind it have actually created some valid HTML. Google Calendar even has a doctype! Perhaps the days of Google’s notoriously bad HTML is behind them.
Douglas Bowman was involved in the project, which may have had something to do with it. (Possible quote: "by the way guys, c’mon — your web apps are awesome but your HTML sucks!").
On the functionality side, I’m not sure how much impact Google Calendar will have until it synchs with handheld devices. I’m sure they’ll attempt this in the future, and then along with Gmail, Google might actually give the likes of Outlook a real run for its money. Outlook is hardly the be and end all of desktop communication and organisation — but even Doug Bowman sings Google Calendar’s praise over iCal, which is always getting praise from the Mac camp.
Microsoft Live Mail
Monday, April 10th, 2006I don’t check my Hotmail very often anymore (since switching to Gmail quite a while ago), but I did today just to clear the alerts I keep getting from MSN Messenger (where most of my IM contacts are). I noticed a fairly garish and green button inviting me to check out Live Mail Beta and decided to have a look.
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Joga update
Thursday, March 30th, 2006The Official Google Blog has just posted about Joga – gives a good overview of what’s on offer there. Joga is still in ‘invite only’ mode though; so the world may have to wait to see my hot football skills (ahem!).
A Look at Google Page Creator
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006Well, I got an invite to check out Google Page Creator today. The good news is I doubt this will threaten my career; the bad news is… actually, there isn’t really any bad news (except perhaps some of the tacky templates available, but to be fair, they look pretty slick compared to the good old days of Geocities).
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Google and Nike Launch Joga.com
Monday, March 20th, 2006Google and Nike – perhaps a less than obvious pairing – have launched Joga (via Slashdot), which purports to be social networking site for Football fans around the world. Of course at the moment its got the usual ‘Invite Only’ status everyone has come to know when it comes to new Google products.
I find it interesting that this site appears to have video and photo sharing — is this the first we may see of a Google photo sharing service? Such a product seems to be strangely missing from Google’s product line up, especially considering its very offline photo organising service Picasa.
Maybe Google aren’t quite ready to challenge Flickr (and Yahoo!) just yet.