Eco Factor: Software that lets you know your home electricity consumption on the web. Till today you have been accessing the sea of vast information present on the internet through search engines such as Google. And now, Google wants to give you a more useful gift — its new free web service called...

A week after it was originally announced, Google rolls out a tool to "create iGoogle themes." It can't do everything we'd hope for, but check out what you can accomplish in the screenshots below. To get started, sign into your Google account from any Google service, then head to the ThemeMaker page....

Who hasn’t noticed those little RSS subscribe buttons (Add to Google, My Yahoo, Netvibes) popping up all over the web like Starbucks in the suburbs? If you’re like me, you were drawn into the gadget-rich world of iGoogle by just one of these buttons. One minute I was trawling for article...

People are still griping about the recent redesigns of Facebook and iGoogle, but I think we should cheer on any company brave enough to disregard user feedback and embrace change. Lots of big-name, highly successful sites eventually reach a state of paralysis in which they're too scared of alienatin...

I will be speaking at PubCon about widgets on the Wonderful World Of Widgets session. This will be my first officially “We Build Pages” speaking gig! For those of you who remember my adventures of last years PubCon you probably know that I do not like to be awake during the day, so if I ...

Thousands of feature-length documentary films are produced every year, but almost nobody gets a chance to see them. A few dozen are shown to small audiences at major film festivals, and a handful make it into theaters. For every blockbuster like “An Inconvenient Truth,” there are hundred...

Both Greg Sterling’s article and the Wall Street Journal article about this same subject suggested that Google will allow preroll ads on YouTube merely for revenue reasons, I disagree. I don’t believe Google is just fighting for YouTube revenue. I believe Google is fighting for an entire...

Danny Sullivan wrote an article about putting humans back into search results. He mentioned how search engines are already using human behaviors in ranking, but I want specifically talk about the latest four places Google uses human factors, and introduce the next place I feel they will do so (gadge...

I am in Brooklyn and everything I know about Brooklyn I learned from a Beastie boy song and I drank a few beers and it may just be me, but it seems as though I am damned good looking and everything is sparkle-ly. Oh, the conference thing, WidgetWebExpo has a good mix of developers, advertisers, and...

Google Apps Engine Some quick answers to what Google Apps Engine offers, and why you might want to care about it. A few months ago, Joyent (and Dell, and Facebook) announced free hosting (for a year) to budding application developers. These free servers were designed to scale and help developers who...