{"id":38598,"date":"2013-08-31T13:55:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/remind-me.html"},"modified":"2013-08-31T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T19:55:29","slug":"remind-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/remind-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Remind Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wow. This is truly cool, because being reminded of stuff by the Internet is, in fact, awesome.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, on Amazon, you could set reminders for information about authors you liked — e.g., when a new book came out by them. \u00a0For whatever reason, Amazon buried, then did away with those kind of notifications. \u00a0That Google is adding such reminder functionality is a great, great thing.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh this is awesome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Check out Google\u2019s new \u201cRemind Me\u201d feature for TV shows, authors, and more<\/a>
\n Easily follow your favorite media properties in Google Now.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. This is truly cool, because being reminded of stuff by the Internet is, in fact, awesome. Once upon a time, on Amazon, you could set reminders for information about authors you liked — e.g., when a new book came out by them. \u00a0For whatever reason, Amazon buried, then did away with those kind of … Continue reading “Remind Me!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13091,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/amazon_for_the_win.html","url_meta":{"origin":38598,"position":0},"title":"Amazon for the win","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Jul-08 10:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I love the Amazon Wish List capability -- being able to flag any item in Amazon as something you want, then being able to point friends and family at same....","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23757,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/amazon-is-an-astonishingly-big-company.html","url_meta":{"origin":38598,"position":1},"title":"Amazon is an astonishingly big company","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-11 2:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This infographic is really very cool -- if mildly scary. 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