2 days ago
nelson : MS search slamming? - Suggestion that Windows Search is now setting browsers to search on Bing
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nelson : My SF to PDX roadtrip - Experiment with Google Maps
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16 days ago
nelson : Google App Engine adds a task queue - Now you can do work on Google's cluster without having to be an HTTP request handler
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jcgregorio : Please Enjoy - The Work of Ji Lee - "Less than 8% of people interviewed that day knew what a browser was."
Rod Begbie : What is a Browser? - Google question 50 people in Times Square. Reminder to the nerds: Users don't know what a "browser" is. [via] #
Andy Baio : Google asks 50 random New Yorkers, "What's a browser?" - only about 8% knew, most thought it was a search engine
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Rod Begbie : Google's Wave of the future is genius, but will it work? - If you don't have time to watch the Google Wave presentation video (1h20m), read this, Andy Ihnatko's piece on why it's got so much potential. [via] #
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nelson : Andrew McLaughlin to work for Obama? - One of my favourite people from Google is rumoured to be going to work in the Obama adminstration
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Andy Baio : Google Wave's full hour-long demo at Google I/O - don't miss the stunning demo of Rosy, real-time character-by-character language translation
philgyford : YouTube - Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 - I finally got round to watching this demo. I rarely need collaborative tools and I like plain text email. And yet this really looks like the future. Worth setting aside some time to watch until the end.
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deusx : Chromium Blog: Extensions at Google I/O - "Today I gave a presentation at Google I/O explaining some of the cool ideas that lie at the heart of our upcoming extension system. For those who didn't get a chance to attend the conference, you can check out the slides"
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Simon Willison : geocoders - geocoders. A fifteen minute project extracted from something else I’m working on—an ultra simple Python API for geocoding a single string against Google, Yahoo! Placemaker, GeoNames and (thanks to Jacob) Yahoo! Geo’s web services.
philgyford : Simonw's geocoders at master - GitHub - Python "code for accessing various geocoding web services with an ultra simple API". Sounds good.
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nelson : Warehouse scale computers - Long paper from Google about datacenters
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nelson : Googlebot's view of Wolfram Alpha - Google is indexing random Wolfram Alpha results
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wearehugh : Matasano Chargen » Blog Archive » The Security Implications Of Google Native Client
nelson : Google NaCl security - Great detailed breakdown of what a third party learned about Google's sandboxing technology
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Anil : The Dream of Being Discoverable - I'm a fan of The-Dream, the producer-turned-singer who was born Terius Nash and is responsible for pop gems ranging from Rihanna's "Umbrella" to Mariah's "Touch My Body". His solo albums have been genuinely entertaining and well-produced, a fact that is p
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Anil : Fair Use for Fair People - Worth noting: Both independent bloggers on the web and the Associated Press are in the news this week for asking for appropriate credit for their work when it's excerpted for fair use by online news aggregators. But the web natives frame their argument in
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2 month ago
nelson : Google's routing problem - Half the Internet was sad today when Google got slow. Sounds like they had a routing mishap.
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nelson : Hadoop petabyte sort - Hadoop sorts a petabyte in 16 hours. Compare Google's 6 hour petabyte sort, but then that's not open source
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Rod Begbie : The extreme Google brain - A beautifully incendiary post about "Google’s Aspergerian nerds" and their complete misunderstanding of visual design. [via] #
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Anil : Fair Use for Fair People - Worth noting: Both independent bloggers on the web and the Associated Press are in the news this week for asking for appropriate credit for their work when it's excerpted for fair use by online news aggregators. But the web natives frame their argument in
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Anil : Fair Use for Fair People - Andy Baio collected some reactions from Matt Haughey, Merlin Mann and Joshua Schachter on having their recent works excerpted at length, republished on the Wall Street Journal-owned AllThingsD, and arguably being misrepresented as contributors to a site t
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nelson : Google Chartmaker - simple Javascript tool for interactively building a Google chart
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nelson : Google's 12V servers - Some detail on Google hardware
Andy Baio : Google reveals details about its custom server hardware and datacenters - "It was our Manhattan Project" [via]
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Simon Willison : Google uncloaks once-secret server - Google uncloaks once-secret server. Instead of a data centre wide UPS and redundant power supplies, each Google server has its own 12V battery. They live in standard shipping containers, each holding 1,160 servers.
deusx : Google uncloaks once-secret server | Business Tech - CNET News - "Google's big surprise: each server has its own 12-volt battery to supply power if there's a problem with the main source of electricity. The company also revealed for the first time that since 2005, its data centers have been composed of s
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Anil : The Dream of Being Discoverable - I'm a fan of The-Dream, the producer-turned-singer who was born Terius Nash and is responsible for pop gems ranging from Rihanna's "Umbrella" to Mariah's "Touch My Body". His solo albums have been genuinely entertaining and well-produced, a fact that is p
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Anil : The Dream of Being Discoverable - I'm a fan of The-Dream, the producer-turned-singer who was born Terius Nash and is responsible for pop gems ranging from Rihanna's "Umbrella" to Mariah's "Touch My Body". His solo albums have been genuinely entertaining and well-produced, a fact that is p
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