Google has released for Blackberry devices Google Sync For Mobile, a program that syncs your Google Calendar with the Blackberry’s calendar application. This means you can edit your calendar on your computer or your phone, and expect the calendar to stay the same in both places. Most likely, the blackberry is only the first to get this, and Google is probably producing similar software for other device platforms.
I’m so distracted right now, making my way through former Senator George Mitchell’s report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, and it’s driving me crazy. There’s so much information in there, so much you didn’t want to know and do want to know, it’s just shocking, and in some cases heartbreaking. If you love baseball, and you can take it, read the damn thing.
I’m a Mets fan, and it’s funny, it isn’t the big names that are getting me, but the guys that I cared about, especially guys from the 90s. So far, I’ve seen Todd Hundley and Matt Franco. I loved those guys, they were our boys, and if the information is as accurate as it seems, that’s just sad.
It seems like a lot of the problems center around this Mets employee at the time. If so, the club itself needs to apologise for letting all this happen under its roof. The Mets have continually been a source of dissapointment, thanks to a clubhouse stricken with drug problems, and the management continues to allow this to happen. It’s time for an apology and some heads to roll in Queens.
UPDATE: Not Todd Pratt!
At least the Yankees are looking pretty bad, too. With Clemens, Pettite, Knoblauch, David Justice and others, this report has tainted four World Championships.
Chris Sacca, Google’s influential-for-no-particular-reason head of special initiatives, has left the company, just as the auction for wireless spectrum enters its most critical stage. Sacca was leading Google’s efforts for the spectrum, and before that he had been working on Google’s failed San Francisco wifi project. Sacca will be investing in startups and partnering with other angel investors.
Valleywag has long called Sacca a useless do-nothing non-executive (his title was apparently made up) whose time should have come long ago, and they seem quite pleased to see at least one extra Googler go away.
Oh, man, can you imagine? What if you opened up your RSS reader and had to read all this:
Thank god it was just a glitch, and went away within a few minutes. Bloglines does it every once in a while, and freaks me out.
Google has released an iPhone-formatted version of Picasa Web Albums, letting you browse and show off your photos and those of your friends on the hot little device. You can view photos full-size, run a slideshow, search your photos or community photos, or view your friends’ albums. Just go to picasaweb.google.com on an iPhone or iPod Touch to check it out.
Google also recently released an iPhone-formatted interface for Google.com, including in it Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Docs, News, SMS, GOOG-411, Blogger and Notebook. Google’s iPhone strategy is better integrated than its regular phone strategy, and seemingly even more so than its own Android strategy.
Google also launched a new Picasa 2.7 beta for Linux. It adds uploading to Web Albums, saving and reverting of edits to disk, folder view, more RAW support, larger thumbnails, caption editing, search by ISO and focal length, and improvements to camera importing.
For the third year in a row (2005, 2006), Google is putting little white candles next to the ads on searches for “hanukkah”, Christmas trees next to ads on “christmas”, and multi-colored candles next to ads on “kwanzaa” searches, decorating its advertisements on holiday search results.
Tamar at Search Engine Roundtable points out that Ask recently ran a dreidel below it search box on the homepage:
And that Dogpile is running three homepage designs, one for Hanukkah, one for Kwanzaa, and one for Christmas:
Plus, SER ran its own Hanukkah design, which you can see at their post.
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