Posts tagged “Google Plus

It’s getting clouded – space in the cloud environment

Posted on 24 February 2012

Just now I was writing about something else entirely on this blog when the GIZMODO extension I used with Chrome popped up with the headline, “Get 50GB Free Storage for Android.” Eyebrow raised, I impulsive clicked the link and followed the article’s instructions to get Box‘s Android app “right now” to get 50GB of cloud storage for free forever. True to their word, I got my 50GB free. While this is a pretty sweet deal—and I do encourage any fellow Android user to take them up on their 30-day offer—as the app downloaded and I registered for another cyber locker service, I began to think, ‘Do I actually need this space? What will I use it for?’ I asked myself this because I have so many cloud locker…

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New Latitude Leaderboard adds points to check-ins

Posted on 21 February 2012

  When I checked in to work this morning as I usually do I was surprised to discover a new Leaderboard feature had been introduced with the latest update of Google Maps with Navigation for Android. With each Google Latitude check-in you make, you earn points which are tallied to give you a total score for the week. Your score is then compared to others in your Google+ circles. The person with the most points leads the leaderboard. It would seem most of my friends on Google+ don’t check in too often! Early reporting on the ninja release are likening it to Foursquare, which I suppose in some ways it is (points and leaders). Of course Foursquare has a much more sophisticated incentive structure…

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Music Beta graduates to Google Music (but it’s US only)

Posted on 17 November 2011

Yesterday Google announced Google Music. The service wraps a music discovery and purchase platform around their existing Music Beta by Google service that lets users upload (up to 20,000 songs from) their personal music collection to the cloud for streaming playback: Google Music helps you spend more time listening to your collection and less time managing it. We automatically sync your entire music library—both purchases and uploads—across all your devices so you don’t have to worry about cables, file transfers or running out of storage space. We’ll keep your playlists intact, too, so your “Chill” playlist is always your “Chill” playlist, whether you’re on your laptop, tablet or phone. You can even select the specific artists, albums and playlists you want to listen to…

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