适用了下后发觉对单个的用户而言，也可以把它看作和美味书签类似的服务。只不过 ReadBag 的社会化功能明显少了很多，更多强调的是个人的阅读功能。特别是它还可以和 Google Reader 整合，把在 Google Reader 里面看到的好文章直接添加到 ReadBag 里面去。

一直以来我都没有怎么使用 del.icio.us 的服务，面对需要保存下来以后再看的网址，我的做法是直接将它保存在我的 Firefox 书签组中，我还特意加了一个书签组叫做 FollowUp。然后通过 Foxmarks 的书签同步功能，我在办公室里面加的书签，回家打开 Firefox 之后，没有一会就同步好了。等到某个网址的内容不再需要了，我就直接从书签中删除。因为不需要什么社会化功能，这就是我觉得最合适我的 Read it later 工具。

ReadBag 有一点优势就是对移动终端的支持，或许等我换了大屏幕手机，会来考虑下使用 ReadBag 的服务。而现在，我对于 ReadBag 所采用的 Google App Engine 服务则更感兴趣，于是乎 http://code.google.com/appengine/ 的地址被我新加进了 FollowUp 列表 ^_^。

谷歌视频和谷歌公交是谷歌最近推出的两个新产品。

很明显谷歌公交还是实验室产品，还没有自己的二级域名，简单试了一下杭州的公交搜索，效果还可以。谷歌公交还是使用的 Mapabc.com 数据，搜索结果界面也和谷歌地图整合在了一起。很奇怪为什么 Google Maps 很早就有的个人地图功能， 谷歌地图就是不推出呢？很是郁闷。

我使用谷歌视频搜索曾经很有名气的《大史记》竟然没有任何结果？？我估计谷歌视频的推出会让土豆等网站的首页流量小一些。而且谷歌视频的首页明显不是 Google 常用的风格，到有点像土豆等网站，直接将视频截图显示了出来。

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出国之后发现 Google Map 还是很有用的，比如我就把网上查到的 TheNorthFace 在 Luleå 这个小镇的商店地址标识在了地图上，然后保存在 My Maps 中，这样下次一找就找到了，而谷歌的地图却还没有添加标识的功能，要努力了啊。

一些皮肤还支持随着当地时间的变化自动调整显示的功能，使用之前需要设置一下你所在的区域，如下图所示（点击查看大图）：

现在，通过最新的 Google Reader，完全可以想什么时候读就什么时候阅读最新的条目了，不用担心那些已经阅读过的条目还显示出来打扰你。太酷了！现在已经根本没有什么其他在线 RSS 阅读器可以吸引我了。

[UPDATED 2007-03-21] 难道真是我老眼昏花了还是原来只是 Expanded View 没有上面我说的功能？现在已经不得而知了。

文章中的 Logo 如下：

[UPDATED 2007-02-18] 初一早上起床发现 Google 的猪年的 Logo 果然是如上图所示，有点点改动就是多了个“福”字，并且点击图片即直接搜索“2007猪年”。

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My trends:

而刚刚添加一个新 Feed 的时候发现 Google Reader 已经做出了改变，添加完一个新种子之后将会在 Feed 名称下方出现一个 “Add to Folder” 的新选项，通过这个选项你可以方便的选择新 Feed 的类别。如图所示：

虽然目前想要修改 Feed 名称还等去管理页面，不过 Google 的产品总是在不断的进步，让我们拭目以待吧。

His personal blog address is http://yw1984.spaces.live.com/

News from Google Official Blog :

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/this-years-codejam.html

What took 6 weeks, required sizzling brainpower, and drew a global audience of programmers? The fourth Google CodeJam, that’s what. More than 21,000 coders from 100 countries registered in early September and have competed two rounds (they could code in Java, C++, C#, Python or VB.NET). Today was the grand finale, which just ended at our New York City office. The 100 finalists convened in New York to play this last round together. Screens glowed, fingers flew, and gears spun. Our top three winners are:

Petr Mitrichev, Russia - $10,000
Ying Wang, China - $,5000
Andrey Stankevich, Russia - $5,000

Additional cash prizes went to all the finalists, who represent 24 different countries. (Here’s the full release.) This is the fourth annual Global Code Jam, which we produce in conjunction with TopCoder. Our best wishes, congratulations and thanks to everyone who celebrates the joys of coding.

Update: Ying Wang is studying in the U.S., but comes from China.

可惜的是 Google SMS Demo 页面访问不了。

原文如下：

The rebirth of cool

10/19/2006 03:04:00 PM
Posted by Silas Reyes, Webmaster, Mobile team

Have you ever been involved in a project that you’ve seen evolve from an idea to a work in progress to a full-fledged product? I just had that experience with mobile.google.com. If you visited that URL yesterday, you would have seen some pretty basic information presented in a fairly simple format. Today you’ll find a streamlined layout and some new ways to learn about Google’s mobile offerings. Want to take a live test run of the traffic feature on Google Maps for mobile? Or maybe figure out how to stay on top of your Gmail using your phone? We’ve included video tutorials or emulators for every service or application, and we’ve designed the pages in such a way as to make it easy to learn more about the mobile offerings you’re interested in. You can even have Google send a link to your mobile device via a text message that will help you start using Google mobile services with just a few clicks. You just enter your mobile number on the desktop version of mobile.google.com and we’ll text you the link.

My favorite part of the site is probably the Google SMS demo. I think this SMS search is one of the coolest out there, and I’m always urging my friends and family to give it a try. The demo shows you firsthand just how useful and easy to use SMS is, with more than a dozen sample queries to try out and a search box for typing in your own. In fact I’m playing around with it now — did you know that you can use Google SMS to get the address of an Ethiopian restaurant in Chicago, the exchange rate for dollars to baht, a weather forecast for Wamego, Kansas, or the score of the latest MLB playoff game?

Anyway, if you haven’t already, head over to this new improved site and give it a whirl. And as always, don’t be shy about sending us feedback — we’re always looking for ways we can make it even better.

Guys, try it and have fun!

UPDATED: 不知 Google 这样的做法是否表示日后 YouTube 上面将不再会存在盗版的视频文件了呢？

快捷键，浏览过才会标识成已读，这两项已经够我说服自己转向 Google 阵营了。实在太喜欢快捷键了，正如我的编辑器是 VIM，使用 TypeAndRun 一样，键盘才是王道啊。