Solo Technology

The google blog has confirmed what others have already written about today: There’s a new google toolbar (beta, natch) released. Apparently it is version 4 and has some interesting new features.

The bookmarks thing is.. interesting, but doesn’t appear to be any sort of social bookmarking experiment. Somewhat surprising, but perhaps Google noticed how crowded that space already is (and then pondered the revenue model?). What’s interesting is that you can “tag” your bookmarks. I may play with that a bit when firefox version is available (see below). While other toolbars have bookmarking built in, I think this is the first that tag(?). The “Send To” and “Custom Buttons” look interesting. The rest appears to be similar to the previous version.

Now, as near as i can tell, this is IE only. Firefox users will get the “old” toolbar sans all the niftyness.

[later]

Tried it out - works with IE7 beta 1. And that bookmarks feature? You can get to your bookmarks from any machine with the toolbar (v4) installed. Ok, that’s slick. Still trying to decide if I care about the “buttons” feature.

2 Responses to “Updated Google Toolbar”

1. Rich G. on January 30th, 2006 4:51 pm
   

   Where do you get your technorati tags? Tagyu hasn’t worked yet for me, even letting it sit and think about it for a while it never comes up with a tag suggestion… very annoying.

2. chris on January 30th, 2006 5:04 pm
   

   Well, Tagyu works about half the time for me. But I usually end up just typing ‘em in myself. I just found the UTW option to put a pulldown list of tags I’ve already used by that field (includes a count of how many times it has been used too!) so been using that more to help “standardize”.

   Which will never happen: I might be 90% rigid, but that 10% chaos just hoses up all my rules.

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