Kris Beldin's Two Cents Blog » Google http://krisbeldin.com Sharing my two cents worth -- and then some Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:00:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Being Web Wise http://krisbeldin.com/2008/03/28/using-common-sense-on-the-web/ http://krisbeldin.com/2008/03/28/using-common-sense-on-the-web/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:09:29 +0000 Kris http://krisbeldin.com/2008/03/28/using-common-sense-on-the-web/ csm_logo.gif

The Internet is a big place; It can be a scary place too. That said, there is a lot of good that takes place on the Internet. Blogs can be great tools, site like MyFamily.com and Geni bring families and people together. Social media sites also bridge gaps and dissolve physical distances and borders, sometimes.

So, the Internet can be a very useful resource. It can also be used for bad, and that’s where we as responsible adults and parents need to step in and help our kids make good, well-informed choices on the Internet. The nice thing is a lot of the big entities on the Web are helping us do this job by providing guidelines galore and privacy features in most if not all social networking sites.

Google recently made a great post about using common sense online. It’s worth reading the post as well as visiting Google’s U.S. partner in Web safety education, commonsensemedia.org.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUyQI0USNSY

This is really a topic that can’t be put off by responsible adults. I hope to post more on this down the road.

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Google offers personalization and various services like Gmail, Google Apps, in the end, they are collecting information about you in return for these services. In this MediaPost article Google’s translation service is another in their line of products that don’t offer any “revenue streams.”

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Read the article here

]]> http://krisbeldin.com/2006/09/04/goople/feed/ 0 The Beast Awakens! http://krisbeldin.com/2006/08/28/the-beast-awakens/ http://krisbeldin.com/2006/08/28/the-beast-awakens/#comments Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:01:00 +0000 Kris http://krisbeldin.com/the-beast-awakens/ According to Business Week Google is coming out of its slumber to fight for the consumers once again. Google today announced that they will be bundling some of their popular Web-based applications like e-mail, instant messaging, Internet phone calling, schedule management and Web site creation tools–all for consumers. The media is reporting that this is a strike against Microsoft and its popular cash cow, the Office Suite.

My Two Cents: I have to agree with one of the commentors, the real winner in this Web-based battle is the consumer.

How about you, are you or your company going to benefit from Google’s move?

]]> http://krisbeldin.com/2006/08/28/the-beast-awakens/feed/ 0 Props to Russell Page, our in-house Google Expert http://krisbeldin.com/2006/08/15/props-to-russell-page-our-in-house-google-expert/ http://krisbeldin.com/2006/08/15/props-to-russell-page-our-in-house-google-expert/#comments Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:14:13 +0000 Kris http://krisbeldin.com/props-to-russell-page-our-in-house-google-expert/ I have to tip my hat to Russell Page, a blogroll member on my site, co-worker and friend of more than half a decade.

Russ is our in-house expert when it comes to many of today’s social media tactics and Web 2.0 stuff. Bob Mimms quotes Russ Page in his Google Trends article; the article appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune on Monday, August 14, 2006.

]]> http://krisbeldin.com/2006/08/15/props-to-russell-page-our-in-house-google-expert/feed/ 0 Google wants to take its ball and go home! http://krisbeldin.com/2006/08/14/google-wants-to-take-its-ball-and-go-home/ http://krisbeldin.com/2006/08/14/google-wants-to-take-its-ball-and-go-home/#comments Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:55:20 +0000 Kris http://krisbeldin.com/google-wants-to-take-its-ball-and-go-home/ Steve Rubel makes an interesting comment here about Google and its apparent desire not to become too well-known (wink, wink)!

The only benefit of fighting to retain a name, in my opinion, is the trademark value of the name. Much like Kleenex represents anything tissue and has probably lost its trademark protection, the word Google has become societized; it is now inseparably connected to all things Internet.

Maybe it comes with the territory of those whose ultimate goal is world domination??? If that

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