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Amazon's tablet is a great thing for Google because more people can browse the Web using a mobile device. It also shows that Android is an open platform and anyone can build a successful product using Android's code. As long as Amazon doesn't create new APIs and all Android apps run well on the tablet, it's not a bad thing for Google. - Ionut

Actually Buzz is a Google+ feature now. - Ionut

What's a private Google Profile? I don't get it. - Ionut

I don't know if the new features are really useful, but Yahoo Mail is now blazing fast. Faster than Gmail. - Ionut

"Facebook is the number two search engine in Latin America, barely edging out Microsoft Sites by about 12 million searches (525 million to 513 million)." Huh? - Ionut

I couldn't figure out how they show the suggested sites when you visit https://ieonline.microsoft.com/ . They don't use cookies or user accounts. - Ionut

ahhh... ok - WebmasterLMB

Well, at least in the US. - Ionut

Well, at least in the US. - Ionut

It's really difficult to write a hardware review, especially when it comes to a device that's so different. - Ionut

"German home-owners who have chosen to opt out of Google's Street View service appear to have become the unsuspecting victims of anti-privacy vandals." Anti-privacy vandals? - Ionut

"Google appears close to buying the trophy 111 Eighth Ave. building, one of the largest buildings in Manhattan. The price is rumored to be tantalizingly close to $2 billion." - Ionut

They still mention the irrelevant "2010 study by the prestigious Fraunhofer Institute". - Ionut

"The GALAXY S has been a phenomenal success in the global smart phone market, recording global sales of over 5 million units including more than 2 million units in the United States and more than 1 million units in Korea. " - Ionut

There are a lot of ideas from Chrome. - Ionut

This is so ironic: "The best attack on pirates is to make their work more difficult and expensive, while simultaneously making the legal path to products straightforward, easy, and fast." - Ionut

"Devices with Android 2.2 are now registering on the platform versions chart at 3.3%." - Ionut

Apparently, it's just a new version of Gizmo5. - Ionut

Comparing Blogger to Wordpress... I'd say that's about right. - Kevin Mohr

I think this feature is more valuable for Blogger users than Google Analytics, which is clunky, has tons of features and doesn't update in real-time, - Ionut

I use Total Commander + many plug-ins. - Ionut

I usually don't leave my browser... I shared this because it seemed like a good tool for people still stuck on Windows. - Kevin Mohr

I have heard good things about Total Commander though. - Kevin Mohr

Google Voice Search understands dogs :) - Ionut

http://browsershots.org/ - Alex Kapranoff

Thanks guys! - Philipp Lenssen

It's also a Google Trends hot topic: http://www.google.com/trends - Ionut

:-( anyone know? I've only seen it missing in comments view when the item was non-expanded but not like this. - immaterial

If you use "mark all as read", Reader sets a flag so that all the posts received before a certain date are flagged as read. That's why you won't see "keep unread" for those posts. It's a technical limitation. - Ionut

oh, thankyou :-) that would explain it - immaterial

No - Jérôme

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009... - Evan Parker

"People feel uncomfortable when their expected associations are violated, and that creates an unconscious desire to make sense of their surroundings. That feeling of discomfort may come from a surreal story, or from contemplating their own contradictory behaviors, but either way, people want to get rid of it. So they're motivated to learn new patterns." - Ionut

methinks the title is overly negative - it's a _nice_ phone which you can overload with apps perhaps a little easily :-/ - immaterial from Android

I think that's always true when it comes to tech toys. The G1 is about a year old, time for generations 2-5 (from my G1 :-)) - John Mueller from Android

" Android and iPhone users download approximately 10 new apps a month, while iPod touch owners download an average of 18 per month. iPhone and iPod touch users are twice as likely to purchase paid apps than Android users." - Ionut

Nice! I must go and change mine also. - Ryan - @magicofpi

Yeah, I'm gonna file a bug on that. I actually framed my screenshot around that bug. - Kevin Fox

"ForceHTTPS is a simple browser security mechanism that web sites or users can use to opt in to stricter error processing, improving the security of HTTPS by preventing network attacks that leverage the browser's lax error processing. By augmenting the browser with a database of custom URL rewrite rules, ForceHTTPS allows sophisticated users to transparently retrofit security onto some insecure sites that support HTTPS." ( https://crypto.stanford.edu/forceht... ) - Ionut

Can't find it in the Android market in the U.S. either. Bummer. - Adam Lasnik

1. there are third-party spotify clients 2. you can change your country in itunes by signing out, picking a country from the drop-down at the bottom and creating a new account without credit card - Ionut