Scott Yang's Playground

Saw this on Sydney Morning Herald yesterday — Google named Australia’s best place to work: After its outstandingly successful parent company topped a 100 Best Places To Work survey conducted by the US magazine Fortune, Google Australia has claimed the No.1 spot in a similar Australian poll. BRW, which conducted the study, said Google had created a [...]

Undo Send — new in Gmail Labs, via Twitter. One feature that I wished that I have over the last 14 years of emailing. Back in the Thunderbird days, way too often press [Ctrl]-[Enter] instead of [Enter], which sent off an unfinished email. Too bad you only have 5 seconds to recall your mistakes.

Basically I have been playing with the HTC Dream smartphone for the last week and half, thanks to the loan phone from Optus. Let me say it first — it is a very very nice phone that I believe every geek would love to have one. On the day when it arrived on my desk, [...]

Meet my new email client. Yes, it’s Google Mail. Or to be more specific, Gmail part of Google Apps, and it is now hosting my (and Vivian’s) emails on this domain (yang.id.au).

It has been 3 and half years since I first added advertisement from Google AdSense on this website. The amount of traffic has been steady over the last 3 ½ years although I have been really slack blogging here recently. Here are some interesting statistics on monetising this blog with Google AdSense. Year Impressions Clicks Revenue 2005 87,xxx 2,1xx $372 2006 212,xxx 5,4xx $1,030 2007 205,xxx 2,6xx $498 2008 211,xxx 2,0xx $363 Note that I have [...]

It’s all over the news yesterday and today. Kogan, a relatively-small electronics shop in Melbourne famous for re-branded cheap Chinese goods, has pre-released their Google Android powered mobile phone. It can now be ordered online but won’t be shipping until late Jan 2009. There will be two models: Kogan Agora for AUD$299, and Kogan Agora Pro for [...]

I said I was going to download Google Chrome first thing in the morning, didn’t it? Well, I had a hectic morning trying to get to Tech.Ed on time so I did not manage to download the freshly baked Google Chrome Beta, but then I still managed to get it up and running after I [...]

Top news item at TechMeme today — Google has revealed its own browser — Google Chrome, via a comic adoption by the artist Scott McCloud (ain’t that presentation brilliant!) By browsing the 5-chapter comic book you basically learnt that Chrome is a new Open Source web browser developed by Google. WebKit is used as the rendering [...]

SMH: Clerical error exposes Google as anonymous eBay critic. Worse, it has not only revealed that it is Google who hides behind the mask criticising eBay’s latest policy on payment methods, meta data in the PDF file has also revealed that some Google employees used Microsoft Word to construct the document!! Well. Google, listen — [...]

Google has just launched a preview version of Google App Engine, a development platform for your next start-up web-based application that is designed to be scalable. Looks like it is designed to compete against Amazon Web Services, and it includes the full suit of development stack, including: Web serving environment, including a Python runtime environment [...]