Yesterday, Google released two new services for mobile phone and wireless device users: Google Local and Google SMS Driving Directions. Google first released Google Local last year to enable users to find relevant local information...

Google Labs offers Google Suggest, one of the latest flavors of the popular Google search engine. This version pretty much looks and works like the regular Google with which everyone is familiar. However, the twist...

Last month, Lee Rainie, Project Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, delivered a presentation [pdf] on the results from the latest Pew survey on internet usage in the United States. The survey...

Hi Friends, craigslist… sure you are thinking that this is where you post jobs, buy used furniture or read personals (at least according to my friends 🙂 But did you know you can also post...

Hi Friends, Well like everyone else, I have decided to take a flight around the USA with Google Maps and post some pictures. But first check out Paul Rademacher’s combination of Google Maps with Craig’s...

Hi Friends, Google added satellite images to their Google Maps. Now you can see where you are going from above, anywhere from a Space Shuttle View to a Helicopter view. Personally I find the Amazon...

Hi Friends, GMail turned 1 today. Google increased GMail’s storage immediately to 1.5GB (for my accounts at least), with plans to increase to 2GB (as stated on CNET and others) and then… Infinity + 1GB...

Hi Friends, Yahoo! has released a Creative Commons Web search cut of their Web search that limits itself to content that has a Creative Commons license (they basically filter their results by looking for the...

Hi Friends, Today and tomorrow I am going to cover a few more free tools, starting with YouSendIT.com‘s service for transferring large files over the Internet. You can upload/send files of up to 1GB. How...

Hi Friends, According to a Forester Research report (see article on ClickZ), Internet Yellow Pages providers have fallen behind in the battle for the local search audience and will need to partner to remain competitive...