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Google Gears Changes Name, Makes Friends With MySpace

Google Gears took two steps today to make a lot of people's lives less complicated.  First, we've all been encouraged to skip six keystrokes and just call it "Gears."  Second, its work with a certain social network should make MySpace messages much easier to sort through.

Google Docs Goes Offline

Don't worry, it's not an outage. Google implemented its offline option for Docs via Gears, the technology the company uses to make its applications available without an Internet connection.

Google Calendar Going Offline?

Disconnecting from the Internet doesn’t excuse you from most tasks, so why should such a move disable your calendar?  There are hints that, in coming days, it won’t - as long as you use Google Calendar.

Rumor: Google's Gmail Getting New Features?

This is one of two Google rumors that surfaced over the weekend. The other one is here.

Google Launches Gmail Blog

Google’s got blogs for everything - have you even heard of CPG, Checkout API, and Librarian Central?  Yet there’s a new blog to which almost all of our readers should be able to relate: the Official Gmail Blog.

Do Not Follow Google's Mistakes

This is not an attempt to bash Google. However, you can sometimes learn what not to do from some very successful people and products.

Google Reader & Offline News Reading

In the first week of June Google launched a program called "Google Gears" that expands the already impressive capabilities of Google Reader (Google's free news reader) to allow offline viewing. Here is a quote from Google's related blog posting:

Google Gears: Where's The Sync?

A little probing into offline application-enabler Google Gears finds that the prospective Gears developer could be in for a little code-shock.

TechMeme: Anti-linking Engine

I’ve noticed this several times and thought I’d bring it up. TechMeme seems to penalize bloggers who link to other bloggers. Most bloggers believe that a major part of how TechMeme decides which is the most important story is to count links. That isn’t true in following mine, and other people’s results. I believe there’s a “linking penalty” on TechMeme. At least it seems that way after doing my own link counting. Let’s say there’s three stories.

Inside Google's Gears

So, what did Google just do with its introduction of “Gears?” Setup its suite of office applications to go offline. Oh, and everyone else’s too. Zojo? ConceptShare? Zimbra? All will be able to go offline soon if their developers adopt Google’s Gears.