Ce am făcut? Acest, Că și noiembrie SaveiGoogle zilei

Scris pe Noiembrie 1, 2012 de SaveiGoogle.org Personal

În ultima lună, we haven't been hiding under a rock. There just hasn't been much to write. Sigur, we could have announced updates to the Alternative list or talked about when we made news. Dar, we didn't see either as all that newsworthy. We could even be lamenting iGoogle's demise one year from today. Instead, we'll continue to keep doing what we're doing, like getting ready to give away what may end up being rare collectible swag on the first Save iGoogle Day tomorrow!

Unfortunately, we have to limit swag distribution to US residents, but we urge everyone to take part in SaveiGoogle Days. The rules for a chance to win some swag during the November Save iGoogle Day are:

  1. Between 11am EDT and 11pm EDT on November 2, 2012, do the following:
    • Add a comment to the November Save iGoogle Day thread started by SaveiGoogle.org at the iGoogle Personal Homepage forum for a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org keychain flashlight.
    • Retweet the November Save iGoogle Day tweet sent at Twitter by @SaveiGoogle for a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org keychain flashlight.
    • Repin the November SaveiGoogle Day pin sent at Pinterest by SaveiGoogle for a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org keychain flashlight.
    • Share the November SaveiGoogle Day post sent at Google+ by SaveiGoogle.org for a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org keychain flashlight.
    • Share the November SaveiGoogle Day status update sent at Facebook by Nu ucide iGoogle for a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org keychain flashlight.
  2. Everyone that completes one of the above will also receive a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org embroidered hat. Do all five of the above and receive five chances to receive the hat.
  3. Random drawings for winners will be completed by Sunday, Noiembrie 3, 2012 and winners will be contacted that day.
  4. Swag distribution is limited to one item per person per SaveiGoogle Day.
  5. We reserve the right to change the rules for swag distribution without notice, including increasing the amount of swag distributed per SaveiGoogle Day.
Postat în Anunț, iGoogle, Salvați Zile iGoogle, SaveiGoogle.org Exclusiv

Salvați Zile iGoogle Inceput noiembrie 2! Google Zile Blackout anulate!

Scris pe Septembrie 27, 2012 de SaveiGoogle.org Personal

Unlike Google, we take your input seriously! A Stop SOPA style monthly gadget blackout sounded like a good idea at the time, but will just add to user angst like that caused by Labpixies (a Google company) premature termination of its birthday gadget, Gadgeteer pulling the plug on all their gadgets şi Google killing its weather API. The monthly Google Blackout Days planned to start on October 1, 2012 are cancelled!

Instead, let's have some fun with Save iGoogle Days starting on November 2, 2012! We'll have more details soon, but we can tell you everyone that participates at the iGoogle Personal Homepage forum, Facebook, Google , Pinterest and/or Twitter will get a chance to win some swag.

Postat în Anunț, iGoogle, SaveiGoogle.org Exclusiv, Voluntar

Bing It On, Ura pentru Mozilla & GeekDad Visul App

Scris pe Septembrie 18, 2012 de SaveiGoogle.org Personal

Un pic mai mult de șmecher "În caz că ai ratat #5?" Sperăm că astfel! Anyway...

Bing It On

In case you need more motivation to check out alternatives to the "nou" evil (Google) imperiu. The "vechi" evil (Microsoft) empire is giving everyone the opportunity to do a blind comparison of Google and Bing search results at Bing It On. Unless you run into the Bing team on the street, you won't have to give them the shirt off your back if Bing does better than Google. Și, if you care to tweet about Bing It On, Microsoft is offering a big box of "awesome" Microsoft swag at bingsweeps.com.

Ura pentru Mozilla

Kjetil Hartveit is absolutely right about Mozilla doing the right thing by making the source code for it's iOS Sync client available on GitHub. However unlikely, we can still hope for the same from Google on the iGoogle container, the Google Gadget Editor and the theme and gadget directories. Pentru ceea ce merită, Google did step up and open source Google Wave, now Apache Wave.

GeekDad's Dream App

GeekDad's got a pretty good app idea over at Wired. Would someone get on it? In that story's comments, we mentioned Kite Birou as an option. We just got our beta invite and will be evaluating features for our Alternative list soon.

Postscripts

Backstitch just launched a public beta today. Don't expect much yet. Dar, it looks promising. Currently it's focused on integrating news, photos, social and shopping within gadgets (patterns) and a reader (threads). It does have an RSS Feed gadget. There is no mobile capability, email, calendar, OPML import, sharing or broad base of gadgets.

Good to see Google put its considerable resources into supporting all those users clamoring for the "Bacon Number" instead of iGoogle!

We've made a few more updates to our Alternative list. This update focused on adding a few potential options, eliminating a few options and changes based on your suggestions.

Postat în iGoogle, Alternative iGoogle, Știri Story, Alte Blog

Proiect Alternative Lista

Scris pe Septembrie 5, 2012 de SaveiGoogle.org Personal

Fără întârziere, our Alternative list is available. Va rugam sa recunosc acest lucru este un lucru în curs de desfășurare. Ne-ar dori să fie completă prea, dar este nevoie de timp pentru a identifica alternative, define a set of criteria for consistent evaluation and complete feature verification and testing across multiple browsers and operating systems.  Many volunteer hours are going into developing the comparative alternatives list. To date, we've:

  • identified or received suggestions for 80 potential iGoogle alternatives,
  • verified and tested features for 17 alternatives,
  • eliminated 15 alternatives from the list for a variety of reasons, şi
  • are working on the 48 other alternatives.

As it's not final, you won't find the list on the SaveiGoogle.org sitemap or menu. Contactati-ne if you think there is an alternative we missed or feature we need to consider.

Postat în Anunț, Alternative iGoogle, SaveiGoogle.org Exclusiv

Google creează o altă furtună de uciderea API Vremea

Scris pe August 31, 2012 de SaveiGoogle.org Personal

La începutul acestei săptămâni, Next Web au raportat Google a ucis liniște API e vremea (API este ceea ce face ca Google gadget iGoogle Vremea locul de muncă). Pentru majoritatea utilizatorilor iGoogle, uciderea API fost mare. Google a înlocuit în liniște gadget iGoogle cu una din Weather Underground. Deci, ceea ce este mare lucru?

Chiar dacă a fost API "privat" și Google a fost "în termen de drepturile sale" să-l trageți fără o notificare prealabilă,E o dezvoltatori deschise in mai multe secrete l folosească în aplicații care nu mai sunt de funcționare. Widget Vremea în pagină Awesome New Tab, printre care Google Apps Chrome se bazeaza pe pentru a înlocui iGoogle, a fost în jos. Și, exista o multime de comentariu nefericit despre el în Twitterverse.Luând în considerare "tot ceea ce facem în legătură cu munca noastră de la Google va fi, și ar trebui să fie, măsurat comparativ cu cele mai înalte standarde posibile de conduită etică în afaceri", unui anunț de mică ar fi fost un lucru bun. Dezvoltatorii, ați putea fi capabil de a găsi un API de schimb potrivit la ProgrammableWeb.

Aceasta este o altă acțiune, care oferă consumatorilor, Dezvoltatorii și utilizatorii enterprise un motiv în plus să pună la îndoială Google integritate şi concentra. La SaveiGoogle.org, stim a face judecăți de valoare sunt, de obicei, o situație fără victorie. Dar, într-adevăr? Menținerea API meteo si iGoogle, cu utilizări, cum ar fi cele notate în comentariu fotografia din ianray la "Nu luați iGoogle mea departe!", este mai puțin importantă decât în ​​curs de dezvoltare Efectele Google Hangouts? Acesta poate fi drăguț și distractiv, dar cum nu o Chief Technology Officer explică faptul că "trăsătură" atunci când descrie Beneficiile economice ale Google Hangouts?

P.S. Știm, datorăm o listă de alternative iGoogle! Lista vom evaluarea a crescut la peste 75! Chiar dacă lista nu este completă caracteristica, vom publica un proiect de marți.

Postat în Știri Story, Observație, Declama

În caz că ai ratat - Cele mai populare articole #4

Scris pe August 24, 2012 de SaveiGoogle.org Personal

Those looking for an iGoogle replacement have a new developer to watch! Josh Jordan has declared in iGoogle Discontinued – I might recreate it!:

...I have started to turn the cogs on this project. I have some really interesting ideas that could enhance the iGoogle experience...

Carol went on a "techy toy/app mission" to replace some iGoogle functionality at Wonder if Toodledo Can Help Me Produce? and found:

Over all I feel I have been more productive.

For those interested in finding a new task manager, we also suggest reading Top 10 Apps: Web-based Task Managers.

In closing, we wonder whether iGoogle's retirement is common knowledge what with a July 3 announcement, summer holidays and what not. We continue to see a number of stories that show authors are unaware (and they are not content scrapers). Two examples from the last week:

If these reasonably tech savvy folks are not "in the know", maybe there are many, many others that need to be reached with the Save iGoogle message!?

P.S. Kudos to Ellen for mentioning IFTTT...a cool tool...definitely something we'll try to use at SaveiGoogle.org to announce new content.

Postat în iGoogle, Știri Story, Alte Blog

Necesitatea este mama creativității #1

Scris pe August 17, 2012 de SaveiGoogle.org Personal

Ca locuri de știri tradiționale pierd interesul pentru pensionare iGoogle și Google continuă să-și mențină poziția pasiv agresiv, you may wonder how we're going to keep things fresh.

  • Keep you informed on Salvaţi campania iGoogle developments.
  • Release an extensive list of iGoogle alternatives by the end of August. The list will include a feature comparison and each alternative has to be multi-platform capable (adică, multi-browser, multi-OS and multi-hardware).
  • Publish an in-depth review of one or two of those alternatives each week.
  • Continue to scour the Web for stories you may have missed.

There should be no shortage of blogosphere stories. There are plenty of savvy people who like to publish what they're doing. Many of the stories don't have the detail to be included in our "Cum Pentru a" page and series, but we're finding plenty of creativity.  Without further ado, you may want to check out:

We recognize many users have no interest in spinning up a website whether it be self-hosted, Blogger, Google Sites or otherwise (but these are just ideas, you don't have to try them). Și, if we were Patricia, we would have also talked about pinning browser tabs with Firefox or Chrome (Internet Explorer users can pin to the taskbar in Windows 7, but Safari users are out of luck). As for Flipboard, we enjoy using the "social magazine" app as a leisurely alternative to an RSS Reader, but think Feedly is as good and a better multi-platform alternative since it supports iOS, Android, Chrome, Safari and Firefox (sorry Internet Explorer users).

As always, feel free to comment on this story or Contactati-ne if you have something to say.

Postat în Cum Pentru a Postări, Alternative iGoogle, Știri Story

The “Salvaţi campania iGoogle” Begins

Scris pe August 13, 2012 de SaveiGoogle.org Personal

SaveiGoogle.org was conceived at a gathering of friends on the night of the iGoogle retirement announcement and put into motion with a simple page of resources on the following day. We were founded as a community effort, attempting to bring iGoogle users and developers together to Save iGoogle. We provide original content and information from around the Web about iGoogle and personal dashboard alternatives.

Weeks in the making, we announce the launch of the Salvaţi campania iGoogle! We invite everyone to join us in efforts to Save iGoogle and thank you for your help! For iGoogle users, the campaign lists recommended actions and resources and explains monthly Blackout iGoogle zile which will begin on October 1, 2012. For iGoogle developers, several tools are provided at Instrumente pentru dezvoltatori, including code for the "Salvaţi iGoogle" ribbon, gadget MiniMessages and iGoogle Blackout Days.

For those who have created "Salvaţi iGoogle" resources that are not mentioned in the campaign, many thanks and please continue your efforts. They won't go unnoticed. As appropriate, we'll make note in our blog, resources page, how to page or other content.

Postat în Anunț, iGoogle, Voluntar

What’s A Mouse To Do?

Scris pe August 10, 2012 de SaveiGoogle.org Personal

When in a position of strength, feign weakness!
And bring a lot more mice!
Have a great weekend!
Stop by Monday morning to learn more
and help with an act of defiance!

Many thanks to Adrian Bruce for the free use!

Postat în iGoogle, Media, Alte Blog, Declama

De ce Salvaţi iGoogle? – Media Scout And Useful On More Platforms Than An Olympic Diver

Scris pe August 6, 2012 de SaveiGoogle.org Personal

While the uses for iGoogle may be limitless, here are a couple more published examples for how people use iGoogle:

You can find these reasons and others for saving iGoogle at our De ce Salvaţi iGoogle? page under Resurse on the menu bar. See something we need to add? Comment or Contactati-ne!

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