Google green, My Library, Reader search |
Google is green, but not just with money from their higher stock price (disclaimer: I own GOOG stock), they also dig solar power.
As mentioned last October 30% of Google’s power needs at its home office in Mountain View, CA are handled by the solar panels it installed on the rooftops. Check out their Google Solar Power web page (gotta love the solar panel over the logo) which shares comparable energy stats like how many loads of laundry or dishwasher cycles one could do with the power from the panels.
My Library
For those who want to keep track of the books owned by ISBN number, Google now offers My Library available through books.google.com in your account. My Library allows import and export (extra points there).
We don’t have many books any more. Most have been given away or donated. My favorite Mac program, by far, for inventorying CDs, games, movies and books is still Delicious Library (no relation to the Delicious bookmark program from Yahoo).
Google Reader adds search
Strange as it may sound a comprehensive search feature for Google Reader wasn’t made available until this week. I continue to be a Google Reader holdout, preferring reBlog and my own server. I like the idea that when I click through to a site the referrer is one of our sites and not Google, as well as being able to keep track in my own database the posts and pages I’m most interested in.
You can search keywords by folder, all items, shared items and starred items. It seems to work fairly well although when you have a lot of results it doesn’t return an accurate number, instead showing the rather worthless “thousands” result.
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T, the image in this post only shows as “Can’t see this image? Original image at makeyougohmm.com” in Bloglines (and, because of caching, shows just that image when I visit the post. Whatever you’re using to block image hotlinking, you should either turn it off for new posts, or turn it off for feed readers.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg — September 9, 2007 @ 7:38 am PST
Nathan - you using the new beta bloglines client maybe? It shows fine in the old bloglines. I just have to update the script because they are serving images from a different location. There should be no blocked images for approved readers. And if you do a refresh in your browser cache here you’ll never see those images.
Comment by TDavid — September 9, 2007 @ 7:50 am PST
I just added beta.bloglines.com to the approved reader list [see screenshot here]. The images should pass fine now in their beta client but I suspect when the beta period is over, they’ll drop back to bloglines.com and that has been on the approved list for years. As explained back in October 2004, not trying to block legitimate online aggregators and readers. I apologize for the inconvenience, Nathan.
While on this discussion though it’s trivial for these online reader companies to cache the images locally and serve them using their bandwidth. Ask yourself who has more money: a company like ask.com or me? Why most RSS readers are setup to steal bandwidth from others is beyond me. I don’t hotlink without permission and neither should they. And yet it’s somehow become acceptable in the RSS world for vendors to hotlink.
The problem with the setup here is it’s too hard keeping up with all the different aggregators and readers out there; separating the good companies from the bad. The list is becoming too long
I might have to rethink and do like most everybody else: just let every tom, dick and harry hotlink the images. The last time I tried that though, and you should know as a reader there are a lot of images in posts here, the bandwidth usage for this site increased dramatically. Might be time for another experiment though, just to see what happens.
What do you think?
Comment by TDavid — September 9, 2007 @ 8:14 am PST