1 month ago
nelson : Welcome to Google Island - Lovely fever dream journalism by @Mat Honan
Andy Baio : Welcome to Google Island - short fiction by Mat Honan, inspired by Larry Page's comments at I/O [via]
#3 month ago
nelson : Google Readers' influence - Nice details on the value of Google Reader traffic to publishers
Andy Baio : What if the Google Reader readers never come back? - entirely likely
#4 month ago
nelson : Boomerang for Gmail - Take a message out of your inbox, bring it back later.
Andy Baio : Boomerang for Gmail - reschedule emails in your inbox; like a poor man's Mailbox [via]
#14 month ago
Andy Baio : Chinese hierarchies of snobbery and contempt - ranking everything from sneakers to World of Warcraft classes
nelson : China: Hierarchies of Snobbery - Fascinating list of preferences for Internet services, films, etc in China
#14 month ago
nelson : Google+ user stats - Google continues to give misleading and uninformative stats on usage of Google+
Rod Begbie : If Google's Really Proud Of Google+, It Should Share Some Real User Figures - Plea to Google to stop with the horseshit Google Plus "user" numbers. To make it simpler for them to count me accurately, I deleted my Google Plus account. [via] #
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19 month ago
Andy Baio : Google adds verbatim search mode - I like to think I had something to do with this
nelson : Verbatim search - Seems hidden away, but at least it's there
#20 month ago
Andy Baio : Chris Wetherell on dreams, discernment, and Google Reader - thoughts from its founder; related: Mihai's history of social features in Reader
nelson : cw on Google Reader - Another of Reader's initial creators weighs in
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20 month ago
Andy Baio : Mourning the death of Google Reader's social features - and again, only a week's notice to save everything? really?
nelson : Google Reader social - I didn't know anyone used Reader this way.
#22 month ago
nelson : Google Correlate - finds queries that match the trend you drew for the last seven years
Andy Baio : Google Correlate searches trends by drawing - Austin Kleon fed Vonnegut's story shapes in with amusing results [via]
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23 month ago
nelson : LevelDB - Embeddable key/value database from the Google system wizards
joshua : LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store - Google Open Source Blog
#27 month ago
bmilleare : What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots - Have you ever wondered what Googlers think of Google?
nelson : Fixing Google eng - Interesting list of problems in Google's engineering culture. I'd agree with about half of these.
#27 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor - Google Project Hosting - snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor - Google Project Hosting: fast compression lib from google
nelson : snappy compression - A Google compression library: 2x bigger than gzip, but 10x faster
#28 month ago
joshua : Pattern | CLiPS - web mining module
Andy Baio : Pattern, a Python module for mining web data - mining popular services, language parsing, and dataviz in one handy bundle [via]
philgyford : Pattern, a Python module for mining web data - Lovely looking module for grabbing data from a variety of web sources, analysing it, and displaying results in different ways. (via Waxy)
#29 month ago
nelson : Facebook Mafia - Interesting profile of what some ex-Facebook people are doing, and more generally about Silicon Valley startup culture
Rod Begbie : Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia - Pretty solid Sarah Lacy post, which includes this perceptive gem: "Quora seeks to organize information to benefit the person answering the question, not the person asking it. As such, some people posing the questions get annoyed that they don't get the r #
#29 month ago
nelson : Bing is Now Google - Evidence that Microsoft has been directly copying search results from Google
Andy Baio : Google engineers set up sting operation, discover Bing copying results - I can't decide if Bing's move is smart or just sad
#31 month ago
nelson : Google TCP tweaks - Evidence that Google may be running outside TCP spec to make connections faster
Simon Willison : Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? - Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?. Fascinating optimisation tricks by some of the big websites, which violate the RFC governing the TCP slow-start algorithm in order to perform better in the common case.
bmilleare : Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? - Interesting hack by Google and MS on the tcp slow-start algorithm to speed up http responses.
#31 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : What Android Is - What Android Is: tim clears up a lot here--at least for me
nelson : What Android is - Great explanation of the components in Google's phone OS
#32 month ago
nelson : MapCrunch - Nice randomized Google Street View images
Andy Baio : MapCrunch - teleport to a random Street View location
philgyford : MapCrunch - Random Google Street View - Really simple idea, everyone's linking to it, and it's still very lovely. Instant momentary holiday.
#35 month ago
Andy Baio : EFF's analysis of the Verizon/Google net neutrality proposal - a sound legal analysis without the handwringing
nelson : EFF on Google / Verizon - An analysis of the net neutrality proposal
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37 month ago
joshua : Introducing the Google Command Line Tool - Google Open Source Blog
deusx : Introducing the Google Command Line Tool - Google Open Source Blog - "GoogleCL is a command-line utility that provides access to various Google services. It streamlines tasks such as posting to a Blogger blog, adding events to Calendar, or editing documents on Google Docs. "
#37 month ago
nelson : Stealing news stories - Long-respected blog journalist Danny Sullivan documents how a bunch of news agencies stole his story about a lawsuit
Andy Baio : Danny Sullivan on misattribution and lazy reporting in the mainstream press - interesting to see which outlets added the citation after being called out
#37 month ago
joshua : Installable Web Apps - Google Code
nelson : What are Chrome Apps? - Docs on what it means to be a Google Chrome app
#38 month ago
nelson : Chrome speed tests - The actual 2 minute video. Making of is more fun.
Andy Baio : Google Chrome's slow-motion speed tests - the making-of is as interesting as the finished product
#38 month ago
joshua : 39 Android Apps that I love
deusx : 39 Android Apps that I love - "Here are the Android Apps that I currently love. It’s not a complete list, but it’s a pretty good start."
#39 month ago
deusx : Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video - "Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source, we’ve learned from multiple sources. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement
Andy Baio : Google to open-source On2's VP8 codec for HTML5 video - Chrome, Firefox, and Opera will support; Safari and IE are less certain
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