Google Maps have announced a new product functionality for its Maps API products – Predictive Travel Time. Known at Google Maps as “PTT”, it will enable users to plan ahead of time to choose the best route and times based on Google’s historical analysis of road-traffic data. What is PTT? PTT is an enhancement to Google Maps API for Work …
Travel by Dragon or Loch Ness Monster
I have just been talking to the guys in the office about travel times and found myself in a surreal situation where I was being very serious, talking about travelling by dragon and the Loch Ness Monster. I never thought that I would ever be discussing these options as means of travel to be displayed on a website, Thanks to …
The Internet in real time
I came across this statistics site earlier today and was blown away. It is just incredible how much data is being used and made every second. In the time it took to create this post (all 7 minutes), the following happened:
My Week with Bing
During a recent trip to the United States I realised how many people use Bing as their primary search engine. This got me thinking, our team always set the default engine on all devices we give out and deliver to use Google. This is just the status quo, we have been doing this for years and never questioned it.
international space station google prank
Today I logged into the Google analytics homepage to check the real time analytics of a site and was surprised to see, 41 visitors from the “International Space Station – Control Room” located just south of what appears to be Australia. Google seem to have gone all out this year on their April fools jokes. First With Youtube Stopping submissions to review …
Amazon Cloud Drive vs Google Drive vs Dropbox vs SkyDrive vs iCloud
Wow only a year or so ago Clouds were just that, today however we seem to encountering a thunderstorm of Cloud options. As they have come out I have been trialing each one. I cannot remember if I signed up to Microsoft’s LIVE Skydrive as it was formerly know or Dropbox first but those two kind of set the benchmark. …
Google launches Handwriting
Google have made their handwriting service available to UK users, if you open up Google on your iPad/ Android Tablet of smart phone chances are you will now also see the “Try Handwriting” feature that our friends over the pond have had since July… You can view more on the official Google Handwrite page – http://www.google.co.uk/insidesearch/features/search/handwritinginput/mobile.html To get started you …
How to solve the Alan Turing Google Doodle
If you are stuck trying to solve today’s six puzzles in the Google Doodle for Alan Turing then here is a quick simple guide for you. Solution 1: 01011 Change both orange circles from 0 to 1, press the play button. Solution 2: 00011 Make the only available orange circle blank. Solution 3: 00011 Click the orange circle twice! no more. the orange button should have four …
Google Drive to offer 5GB storage and 100GB in total
Google are getting set to launch their much anticipated Google Drive. We expect to see this in the next few days, as with previous launches though I would expect it to go into Beta mode first with a limited user base. There is however the possibility that we wont get GDrive, after all it has been rumoured for the last …
Google Submarine
Google today showed their awesomeness with the latest submarine doodle that you can control by using the controls to the right. If you dived down deep enough you will also see that the coral also spells Google 😉 – If that’s not enough of a twist open Google on a hand held device with an accelerometer on it like an …