So, a few years ago I was writing an IRC bot which I decided to call Bartender. Today I was checking my blog’s stats (Nothing impressive, but a good way to see what is most popular on my site, etc.) and I noticed a few people had gotten to my site by searching for IRC bartender, so I Google’d that, and the IRC Bot wiki page came up. I then saw the line:
The historically oldest IRC bots were Bill Wisner’s Bartender and Greg Lindahl’s GM (Game Manager for the Hunt the Wumpus game).
Wow, haha. This obviously doesn’t prove anything but it’s just amazing how I happened to name my abandoned bot ‘Bartender’ too.
Yesterday I barely found out about a Firefox Extension made by Google: Google Browser Sync. This is pretty crazy, it’s what I’ve been looking for for a while and I didn’t even know Google, my favorite company, had already made it haha. Basically it stores all your information from your browser like Bookmarks, Cookies, Tabs/Windows Open, etc. and syncs it to their servers on your account. So you can install this on another computer say at work/school, and it’ll automatically synchronize both computers. So if you bookmark something at home, and you go to your school computer which is also running this extension, you’ll have the bookmark over there too.
Right now I’m not using it for that purpose but rather for backup, just in case anything happens. It’d be better if Google somehow let you view or manage these things it stores, but as far as I know that’s not possible. Either way, this is a great extension so far.
If you ever get into a situation where you have all these tabs open and you have to leave and can’t leave the browser on, some people like me force kill the process (Using CTRL+ALD+DEL) so that the next time I start up Firefox it allows me to open up those same tabs (Lame I know haha), instead with this extension you can close the browser regularly (Just don’t close the tabs themselves), and the next time you start it up the discrete little Google Browser Sync extension will ask you which of those you would like to go back to. Really neat.
November 17, 2007
in Web.
Google is one of the most visited sites on the Internet. I mean, people even frickin treat it as the address bar (They type the URL into the Search Box). It is usually thought of as a benevolent company, doing things for the good of the people rather than to push an agenda. Anyways, I was wondering last night what would be a great way to survey the entire world for whatever reason. And I don’t mean Ad Surveys or anything, but just general surveys possibly on point of views on the world. There are already many like these but they are usually by separate companies like MSNBC, Fox, etc. and not everyone visits these not to mention many believe that they try to push an agenda.
I was just thinking that it’d be cool if Google created a project called Google Survey or something, I don’t know, Google Poll, whatever. People would visit the Google Page and in a small, discrete line it’d say something like “Take this survey to show us what you think blah blah”. Millions of people would see it and take it. The Surveys wouldn’t be too big or anything, they’d be simple and digestible which would encourage people to keep taking them in the future. The results could then be published on a site such as survey.google.com. I don’t know, it’s just a random idea I got which I thought would be awesome. After all, Google is pretty much synonymous with the Internet which is synonymous free information for all, who would be better suited for such a task?
