Author: Rick Klau

A handful of people have pointed out a glaring omission on the Google Profiles page. Here’s what the homepage for Google Profiles looks like today: That’s right, it’s missing one of these: Doh! I happened upon an extremely helpful post in Buzz today from Tom Sullivan. If you use Google Chrome, you can configure your…

One of the highlights of SXSW the past two years for me has been attending a dinner hosted by friends Rick Murray and Mike Krempasky of Edelman Digital. At this year’s dinner, I was chatting with Mike about politics — which is fairly natural for us, as Mike is a co-founder of RedState.com, and I,…

Fred Wilson has a good post up about how he approaches comments at his blog, A VC. The post was inspired by this weekend’s piece in the New York Times about news sites moving away from anonymous comments, and gives a great overview from someone whose blog regularly receives 100+ comments per day. Anonymous comments…

Update: GXG has a wonderful update to this approach, which includes Google Analytics tracking. See his post here. In case you hadn’t seen the news, the Buzz team announced the release of a set of buttons to make it easier for your readers to share your content with their friends via Google Buzz. You can go…

I’m excited to share the news that I’ve taken on the additional responsibility of becoming product manager on Google Profiles. Last year’s announcement about Profiles was the first step towards making it easier to find people on Google; my job will be to build out the next steps. What about Blogger? I’m not leaving Blogger behind;…

Visitors to the site will now see a new tab towards the top called “Best of” and I thought I’d document how I’m doing it in case others want to do the same. A couple of weeks ago I saw a blog have a link to a “best of this blog” page, which I thought…

Last summer, a former co-worker at Google joined Livescribe and sent me one of their Pulse smartpens. I was instantly in love with the pen, but then two minor issues sidelined it: 1) the notepad that came with the pen was a bit big for my taste making it a tad bulky to tote to…

Back when President Obama secured the Democratic nomination, I posted a pic of him from his 2004 Senate campaign. Here it is again: AP Photo/M. Spencer Green Notice the poster hanging on the wall? It’s from the famous Ali/Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” fight in 1974, also known as the rope-a-dope fight. If you haven’t…

A couple weeks ago I asked for your help on behalf of a friend. At the time, the important next step was securing a couple Republican co-sponsors for the legislation introduced by Sen. Schumer. Many of you called Sen. Brown’s office, as he’d indicated he was open to the idea. Great news: Sen. Brown is…

A year in the making, we just released the new template designer on Blogger. The announcement is at the Official Google Blog, and additional posts at Blogger Buzz and the Blogger in Draft blog provide more detail about what’s up. I’ve just updated my design, so if you haven’t been to the site in a…