- Google Blogoscoped
Infobox Website
name=Google Blogoscoped
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url=http://blogoscoped.com/
type=Blog
owner=Philipp Lenssen
author=Philipp LenssenGoogle Blogoscoped is a
blog authored by Philipp Lenssen covering thesearch engine companyGoogle since 2003.Blogoscoped reports mainly on product releases but also offers tips and tutorials and tracks any projects of the Mountain View's company. While the blog concentrates on Google, it has a "Contains 80% Google" stamp, representing the fact that Lenssen also writes about other things that interest him including other search engines, web development, global affairs and even comic book characters.
Lenssen, from
Stuttgart ,Germany , and co-editor Tony Ruscoe write the vast majority of the posts. Past co-bloggers include Colin Colehour, Terrence Gordon, Tadeusz Szewczyk, Mark Malseed, Justin Pfister, Seth Finkelstein, Brinke Guthrie, Ludwik Trammer and Ionut Alex. Chitu. The blog has an active forum which contains the comments on posts and helps [http://blogoscoped.com/forum/personrank.html its contributors] to share hints on incoming Google products. Several well-known Googlers have participated to the discussions, includingMatt Cutts ,Kevin Fox ,Adam Lasnik ,Mihai Parparita andPamela Fox . [ [http://blogoscoped.com/forum/ Google Blogoscoped Forum ] ]It is linked to from Google's official blog as part of the "What We're Reading" section [ [http://googleblog.blogspot.com Official Google Blog ] ] . , and is consistently in
Technorati 's list of the top 100 blogs [ [http://technorati.com/blogs/blogoscoped.com Http://www.blogoscoped/ on Technorati ] ] .John Battelle includes the website in his 2005 book about Google, "".In 2006 Lenssen wrote also the book '55 Ways to Have Fun with Google'. The book was 'born out' of the Google Blogoscoped blog and is available under the
Creative Common License .In April 2008, Lenssen published the book ' [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515881 Google Apps Hacks] '. It presents hacks, workarounds and undocumented tips for
Google Docs ,Gmail ,Google Calendar and other Google applications.External links
* [http://blogoscoped.com/ Google Blogoscoped]
* [http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/ Google Blogoscoped Forum]
* [http://www.55fun.com/ 55 Ways to Have Fun with Google]
* [http://www.outer-court.com Lenssen's other projects]References
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