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Herbivores and omnivores are not known for their linguistic ability. Although it has been discovered that tortoises have expansive general knowledge. (via Google Translate for Animals)
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Life data: using Android device and Google Maps to visualize my daily commute
(Note: I fully realize that less-than-three-miles can hardly be considered a commute. It’s more of a sputter down the road. But I can’t help it if my office moved so closed to where I live. Commute used to be 8 miles.)
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This is my reaction whenever someone asks me what Google+ is. Come on in!
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Interesting story [not me!!]: "Dear Google, I would like to bring to your attention a few things before I disconnect permanently…"
On July 15 2011 you turned off my entire Google account. You had absolutely no reason to do this, despite your automated message telling me your system “perceived a violation.” I did not violate any Terms of Service, either Google’s or account specific ToS, and your refusal to provide me with any proof otherwise makes me absolutely certain of this. And I would like to bring to your attention how much damage your carelessness has done.
As a long-time passionate advocate of Google products and services, this story makes me nervous, too.
(Source: azspot)
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”…there’s an obvious search-related rationale for launching a social network like Google, since indexing and mining that kind of activity can help the company provide better “social search” results. But the real-name issue has more to do with Google’s other business: namely, advertising.
It’s official: Google wants to own your online identity — Tech News and Analysis
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NOOOOO!!! GOOGLE CHANGED!
Google has quietly changed the layout of its search results page. It is no longer a fully fluid layout! It now has a 1250px max width! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
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Above, an email waiting in my inbox this morning. Below, an excerpt from Google’s blog post:
Over the next few months we’ll be shutting down a number of products and merging others into existing products as features. The list is below. This will make things much simpler for our users, improving the overall Google experience. It will also mean we can devote more resources to high impact products—the ones that improve the lives of billions of people. All the Googlers working on these projects will be moved over to higher-impact products. As for our users, we’ll communicate directly with them as we make these changes, giving sufficient time to make the transition and enabling them to take their data with them.
Aardvark: Aardvark was a start-up we acquired in 2010. An experiment in a new kind of social search, it helped people answer each other’s questions. While Aardvark will be closing, we’ll continue to work on tools that enable people to connect and discover richer knowledge about the world. …
Oh no! I am sad about the loss of Aardvark. Google not only failed to improve it but is now shutting it down. At least the folks who made vark.com will be “moved over to higher-impact products” but damn… :-(
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Great blog post in defense of Google Reader
In short, this is not a workflow designed around sharing information and communicating about it. This is a workflow designed to make people click on things.
Taken in hand with the earlier announcement from Google that they’re shutting down Buzz (another quirky social network that didn’t achieve Facebook-level popularity), part of me suspects that someone in Google corporate looked at the Buzz and gReader communities, looked at Plus’s less-than-vertical adoption & use rates, and concluded that by killing Buzz and gReader’s social elements, these communities would migrate over to Plus.
That is, however, a ridiculous idea.
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