Just click on this link to join Google+. 

Sometime we just want to save a post from our timeline to read it later or to archive it. The tip described after the jump does the trick smoothly.

How To: Save Posts For Later on Google Plus | Plus Weekly via kwout

The presentation below from Google docs explains the way Subprime worked. This is a rather complex system. But all the system bears on a very simple assumption: House prices should always increase. Of course it couldn’t work for ever.

Subprime Explained – Google Documents

GmbmG or Give me back my Google is a custom search engine that cleanup Google search results, removing the annoying affiliate links (kelkoo, …). This is useful when searching information on a product. By default Google results are bloated with those links which are most of the time irrelevant. Here is a extract from the about description:

Searching for products on Google™ can be annoying: nothing but Kelkoo, Pricerunner et al clogging up your search results. Now don’t get me wrong, these sites have their uses, but sometimes you really don’t want them in your search results.

I’m a little sceptic about  Backle. I don’t know if it is serious or if it is a big joke. Anyway, Backle is a google custom search page completly black that is suppose to save energy compared to the standard Google blank page. I reproduce a part of their description below:

 

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

Google released a service to create custom search engine. I played a little with the tool to create a dedicated Excel search engine. Here are some information taken from the FAQ:

• What it is?

A Custom Search Engine is a tailored search experience, built using Google’s core search technology, which prioritizes or restricts search results based on websites and pages that you specify, and which can be tailored to reflect your point of view or area of expertise.

 

Sign-up new writely account is open since yesterday (August 17th 2006). Then I sign-up for a new account and trying to publish to my WordPress blog using writely. The interface is simple yet full of features. There are 2 levels of menu at the top. The features that I found interesting are:

• The ability to edit the document as HTML
• Publish the document in a Blog
• Revision management: This might be very useful, as you may recover the amazing idea that you wrote 1h ago and deleted 15 minutes ago