Locking SafeSearch

Locking SafeSearch: "

Google has added a “Lock SafeSearch” feature, available via their search preferences page. It’s meant for concerned adults who don’t want kids to switch away from the SafeSearch filtering (SafeSearch prevents certain adult content from entering web or image results). Once you enable the lock, Google-colored balls as pictured above will appear stamped on the page, meant to be seen by adults from further away – not even logging out will get rid of them. Once cookies are deleted though the lock is gone (and it’s always possibe to switch to another search engine, like Microsoft Bing).

A technical side effect to all this is that now, logging out is not always a clean separation anymore – e.g. if another person signs in to their own account after you’ve activated the lock and signed out, they will still find your email address on their preferences page (it will read e.g. “SafeSearch is currently locked. If you are philipp.lenssen@gmail.com, you can unlock or verify this preference.”)

[Thanks Hebbet!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Locking SafeSearch | Comments]

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Google China Music Player Gets Makeover

Google China Music Player Gets Makeover: "

Google launched a redesign of their Chinese music player (partnered with Top100.cn), which pops up in a new window when you perform a search at the Music base site. The new player puts more focus on search (results will be loaded in the old window), relocates some buttons, and also links to a music list sharing functionality using a Microsoft or Yahoo account, among others.

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google China Music Player Gets Makeover | Comments]

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Google Public Data Onebox Expands

Google Public Data Onebox Expands: "

Google has added a new data source to their Public Data onebox: World Bank data. One data point you can query now is the relative number of internet users for a given country. Try searches like the following to see it in action:

• internet users in china


• internet users in germany


• internet users in usa

Other types of searches, like co2 emissions of ..., are listed at Google’s blog.

As opposed to organic search result answers, which are sort of publicly web-voted on to decide on authority, oneboxes are sometimes more hand-picked, with Google’s employees more directly being the judge on what’s deemed right.

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Public Data Onebox Expands | Comments]

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Google Movies Update

Google Movies Update: "

Google Movies has received an update and now shows more information in regards to movies, theater locations, and movie showtimes, Google at their blog announced. How well does it work for your city?

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Movies Update | Comments]

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Following Google Wave Docs

Following Google Wave Docs: "

“Too much noise” was one of the complaints held against Google Wave. Now Google is starting to introduce concepts of following and unfollowing Wave documents. Now, you need to click Follow to make a public wave remain in your inbox with its updates; previously, that was the default behavior. Muting on the other hand, which was available before, is now consequently renamed to unfollowing. You will still be auto-following Wave docs to which others have added you, though.

Furthermore, Google says they’re also thinking about expanding Wave so that that the following of people may become an option. Doing so would open up yet another use case for Wave which was still missing, namely the one of “opt-in” group-messaging tools like Friendfeed and Blogger.

[Thanks WebSonic!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Following Google Wave Docs | Comments]

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Google's Gizmo5 Acquisition Official Now

Google's Gizmo5 Acquisition Official Now: "

TechCrunch had reported it recently and now it’s made official: Google has acquired Skype competitor Gizmo5. “[W]e’ve acquired Gizmo5, a company that provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers,” the Google Voice blog writes. “Gizmo5’s engineers will be joining the Google Voice team to continue improving the Google Voice and Gizmo5 experience. Current Gizmo5 users will still be able to use the service, though we will be suspending new signups for the time being”.

TechCrunch wrote, “Google Voice is a great VoIP and phone identity service, but they have no endpoint for calls. Gizmo5, which by the way already integrates with Google Voice, is a soft phone end point for Google phone users. In other words, you will be able to make and receive calls to your Google Voice phone number from your computer.”

[Thanks James Xuan!]

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Facebook Share Count Buttons For Blogger

Facebook Share Count Buttons For Blogger: "

Facebook has now officially introduced the Retweet like buttons for your blogs or sites. These buttons look much similar to the Retweet buttons by Tweetmeme. Facebook has 5 styles of Sharing buttons. Here we will see two of them.

Adding a Facebook share count button will show a neat count of how many times your blog post has been shared on Facebook.

Facebook Share Button Style 1

Code for Facebook Share Button Style 1

<div style="float:right;padding:4px;">
<a expr:share_url='data:post.url' name='fb_share' rel='nofollow' type='box_count'/> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share"/>
</div>

Facebook Share Button Style 2

Code for Facebook Share Button Style 2

<div style="float:left;padding:4px;">
<a expr:share_url='data:post.url' name='fb_share' rel='nofollow' type='box_count'/> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share"/>
</div>

Facebook Share Button Compact Style 1

Code for Facebook Share Compact Button Style 1

<div style="float:right;padding:4px;">
<a expr:share_url='data:post.url' name='fb_share' rel='nofollow' type='button_count'/> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share"/>
</div>

Facebook Share Button Compact Style 2

Code for Facebook Share Compact Button Style 2

<div style="float:left;padding:4px;">
<a expr:share_url='data:post.url' name='fb_share' rel='nofollow' type='button_count'/> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share"/>
</div>

How to install Facebook Share Count Button on your Blogger Blog?

1.Select one of the Share Button Styles and copy the Corresponding Code.

2.Now login to your Blogger Dashboard and navigate to Layout > Edit Html and expand the widget templates

3.Find this piece of code

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

and immediately after that place our Facebook share button code(that you copied)

If you were unable to find this code in your template,then look for the first occurance of

<data:post.body/>

and immediately before that paste our Facebook Share button code(that you copied).

5.Save the template and you should get a facebook share count button near each of your blog posts.

If you liked this post and if it helped you in implementing the facebook buttons, then please consider sharing this post on Facebook using the button on the top-right of the post :)

Link: Additional Share Button Styles on the Facebook Developers Wiki

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