Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped has documents which lay out key goals and objectives from Google. He is not publishing them, but has summarized some of their contents here….
Odd, but apparently true. A range of mountains in Canada–revealed by satellite images in Google Maps–looks like a Native American Indian—-that, or someone has done some masterful hacking and photoshop work. Check it out….
Odd, but apparently true. A range of mountains in Canada–revealed by satellite images in Google Maps–looks like a Native American Indian—-that, or someone has done some masterful hacking and photoshop work. Check it out.
Digg in Acquisition Talks With Several Giants Yahoo Updates Yahoo Bookmarks With New Features Firefox 2.0 Debuts Google's Confidential Ethnographic Research on YouTube InkyAnswers: A New Natural Language Search Engine (Beta)…
Pandia honors Searchblog (and Searchmob!). Thanks guys! (Found via Searchmob!)…
Breezy coverage of execs on stage in front of the magazine industry….
This is a clever twist on a very important emerging market of location based content, Outside.in. Check it out. Steven's announcement here. …the site is ultimately about a new kind of experience. You sit at a computer and type in a street address, or a neighborhood name, or a…
…the site is ultimately about a new kind of experience. You sit at a computer and type in a street address, or a neighborhood name, or a zip code — perhaps for your own home area, perhaps for a place you’re visiting or interested in — and within seconds the screen gives you a glimpse of all the textured, real-world issues and conversations and news unfolding in the location you’ve entered. Not just restaurant reviews or upcoming concerts, but the
I'm not really a politcal guy. Forgive me for harping on this. But honestly, that fact (if it is indeed true) that 35,000 human beings are in American secret prisons is simply astonishing. And according to Colin Powell's old chief of staff, only around 5% have anything to do…
Why this is connected to the topic of this site here. In short, the data trails we all leave across the web can get us into some really serious shit, thanks to the current administration’s view of habeas corpus and national security law.
Tim riffs on Larry Lessig's latest post about what makes for true sharing sites (he says YouTube is not), vs. "fake" sharing sites. He brings up a great question about Google Book Search which I asked some time ago, but had forgotten: Now that Google has gone to the…
Now that Google has gone to the expense of creating an online book repository, will they have the courage to set that content loose, either licensing it back to publishers for use in other contexts, or in the case of public domain content, releasing not just the scanned images but also the text?
I interviewed author and Wired Editor Chris Anderson for the ecomExpo conference, which starts today. Our conversation runs tomorrow, but you can register today. Here's the full agenda, looks great….
As anticipated, Google Finance rolled-out an update, sidling up to Yahoo's popular standard bearer. New functionality includes the ability to chart comparisons to similar companies. Although, it still seems to still have some bugs (see pic); when I tried it out, the additional companies selected did not all display…
As anticipated, Google Finance rolled-out an update, sidling up to Yahoo’s popular standard bearer. New functionality includes the ability to chart comparisons to similar companies. Although, it still seems to still have some bugs (see pic); when I tried it out, the additional companies selected did not all display in the chart. In addition, some visual customization is now available. More at Zdnet.
