If you have a mobile phone, you might be interested in downloading the free Google Goggles app, especially (but not necessarily) if you do a lot of traveling.

This mobile app allows you to do searches with images.   You take a photo of something and then search:

• in order to locate information about a book on the internet
• to identify a landmark
• to translate an item on a menu
• to identify products and artwork

You can also take a photo of a business card and move the information to the contact list on your phone.

How are you using Google Goggles?

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Do  Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, Amazon, and more, make your life easier for traveling, shopping, and communicating?  Then you’ll enjoy this fun video of Mary, Joseph, and the three wise men immersed in our world of social media.

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Post from Joseph Gibbs

My name’s Joseph, and I work in campus ministry at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.  One of my desires is to see technology used more effectively to enhance field ministry.  Working for a large, world-wide organisation such as Campus Crusade, one thing you notice is that communication is hard.  Whether it be between campus teams, across ministries within a country, or across countries, I see evidence of things being reinvented because someone didn’t know where they could find information on how to do or build something, or situations where I would have loved to ask someone for advice on developing a method or tool focusing on a specific area of ministry, but I didn’t know who to ask.  I remember one time when a friend from HQ in Orlando asked me if we were doing anything for a World-wide Day of Prayer, but that was the first I heard of such a thing even existing!

Out of this need I have started to develop a website called “inConversation“.  Many of you read blogs by th...

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I signed up for Stumble Upon several years ago.  At the time, it was a convenient way for my teenagers to send me internet sites that they wanted to share with me.  Since we are all signed up, it’s like I had an inbox in my browser of web sites they liked.  If I wanted to  recommend a web site, Stumble Upon also allows me to email the URL to a friend directly from the site.  Most subscribers to Stumble Upon probably just use it to personalize their web-surfing.

For Bloggers

What I recommend for bloggers, though, is to use Stumble Upon to bring visitors to your site.  When I wrote a post for Easter on one of my blogs, I also gave it a “thumbs up” from my Stumble Upon toolbar and wrote a review.  You can see in the graph the spike of visitors I had on Easter.  I know that over 150 of those visitors (or better than 3/5 of my Easter visitors) came from Stumble Upon.

For Everyone

If you are part of Stumble Upon, your Google searches would look similar to this.  The smaller yellow stars show that the ...

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On February 4th, I decided to add a new feature, ClustrMaps, which tracks visitors to three of my blogs and helps me know what countries my readers are from.  Within just three weeks, I could see that I had visitors from every continent to one of my popular blogs, The Sovereign!  (Click here to see the list of countries.  This blog has had 12,500 visitors since December of 2006.)

I also look at WordPress statistics to see what people are reading.  I am using the list of countries from ClustrMaps and the statistics from WordPress to plan more evangelistic links and some future foreign language translations for the most visited posts.  For instance, two popular pages on our Family News blog, “God Knows Who You Should Marry” has had over 500 readers and “When Your First Child Leaves Home for College,” over 300.  In these true stories, I point my visiting readers to God.  This summer, I am hoping to get at least a Spanish and a German translation of these articles, and more, if my family and fri...

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