Comments on James' Rambling: 5 things Google should give us all for Christmas

Christmas is a very beautiful holiday. It was my f...

2009-10-01T14:35:42.873+13:00

Christmas is a very beautiful holiday. It was my favorite ever since I was a little kid. When I was about 18 I started doing drugs. I disconected from my family and never really enjoyed Christmas ever again. Everything seemed to be going down hill until I went to Narconon's drug rehab they helped me to get off drugs and get close to my family again. So now I have somewhere to go on Christmas.

FYI: SyncMyCal has released version 1.3 (http://ww...

2007-01-22T02:05:00.000+13:00

FYI: SyncMyCal has released version 1.3 (http://www.syncmycal.com/whats_new.htm)

Cheers.

Hi Dansk Dude, I have changed my CSS file, I don'...

2007-01-12T13:38:00.000+13:00

Hi Dansk Dude,

I have changed my CSS file, I don't see a lot of difference here, hopefully it looks better for you :)

I really need to do a proper template update anyway...

Here's one wish for your blog, change the template...

2006-12-29T09:06:00.000+13:00

Here's one wish for your blog, change the template from the bitmapped MS Sans Serif to the much prettier Microsooft Sans Serif, eg from this:
body{margin:0px;padding:0px;background:#ffffff;color:#111111;font-family:Lucida Grande,MS Sans Serif,Lucida Sans Unicode,Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;}

to this:
body{margin:0px;padding:0px;background:#ffffff;color:#111111;font-family:Lucida Grande,Microsoft Sans Serif,Lucida Sans Unicode,Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;}

James, Do tell me if you liked it? Regards.

2006-12-24T20:31:00.000+13:00

James,

Do tell me if you liked it?

Regards.

Thanks Vaibhav, I'll definitely give Syncmycal a ...

2006-12-24T17:35:00.000+13:00

Thanks Vaibhav,

I'll definitely give Syncmycal a try.
I've tried a couple of other ones with no success. Hopefully this one is better.

You mention Google Calendar and Outlook Sync. Some...

2006-12-23T23:06:00.000+13:00

You mention Google Calendar and Outlook Sync. Some folks at work have put together a tool (and it is working for me). Its called SyncMyCal and can be found at www.syncmycal.com. It offers many-to-many, two-way calendar syncing between Google and Outlook

My Comments on Matt Cutts Blog. -----------------...

2006-12-18T19:08:00.000+13:00

My Comments on Matt Cutts Blog.

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Does that fact that I had the same idea as panda make me genius or a fool?
"As they say great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ"

Here is my 5 ideas, hopefully some of them are more doable than panda's (I hope) but I think I did leave it a bit late to post with only a week left for google to do anything...

http://jambecorp.blogspot.com/2006/12/5-things-google-should-give-us-all-for.html

My comments on some other ideas posted here:

China: My opinion is that Google made the right decision, better to give them something rather than nothing. I alway think the best way to influence someone is to become their friend. Friends have a lot better chance of helping people change than enemies. So help them fight the fight against porn, hatred and other illegal things. But slowly help China to see the value of open and free information.

Opensearch/RSS: That would be great! Not holding my breath, although you do have dewitt clinton working for you now.

Backlinks, Pagerank, etc: I'd love to be able to see that data. It is a pity that people abuse it though.

Bookmarking: Yeah, I think google could do a lot better than they are now. To be honest I'm pretty happy with del.icio.us at the moment. What I would to see is someone doing something with that data to make search better.

Fancy search operators: I think things like NEAR, inurl, prefer, etc are all good things to support. It doesn't really effect the usability to non technical users and to the few people who do use them they would be really helpful. Of course you have to balance up the cost of creating/maintaining the functinonality vs the money it might back you in the long run (which I'm guessing wouldn't be that much more).
On that note though, don't forget the power of the long tail.