Tag / google
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Google+
So far I’m testing out Google+, a new place online where the early adopter tech crowd is active. For me, it’s a bit like the early days of Twitter with more varied…
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Brancusi
Google’s logo today celebrating the birthday of Brancusi, one of my favorite sculptors.
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Google Art Project
Google announces Art Project, which puts more than 1,000 works of art online for detailed viewing. It’s Google street view for museums and art. You’ll find a selection of super high-resolution images…
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Site Image Hover in Google Search Results
Looks like Google is experimenting with image hovers of the source site on search results. The text of the result is highlighted for each site as well. UPDATE: this is part of…
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Google Goggles for iPhone
Searching with Google on your mobile phone can be an eye-opening experience. Now your phone’s camera can even help to find out more about the world around you. Back in December we…
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Google Wave First Look
Gina Trapani at Lifehacker has a good write up on the current state of Google Wave.
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Google Updates Search Box
Google‘s home page is well-known for its minimalist approach, and the search box itself has had minor adjustments over the past decade. Yesterday, they increased the size of the search box and…
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Google developing a micropayment platform
Google is developing a micropayment platform that will be “available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year,” according to a document the company submitted to the Newspaper Association of…
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ZEVS Google
French street artist ZEVS puts his signature drip on Google at gzzglz.
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I’m Goosh-ing
I came across Goosh.org yesterday through someone’s tweet and I’m in love. Goosh, a “UNIX-like command-line interface for Google,” combines the search functionality of Google with the simplicity of command line. It…
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Google I/O
Marissa Mayer spoke at the Google I/O conference (video at YouTube). Lots of great sessions about APIs, the social web, and the Flight of the Conchords played at the party, complete with…
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Women 2.0 Entrepreneurship
I was glad to see two interesting initiatives this week related to women and girls in technology. The first was Entrepreneurial Night by Girls’ Middle School in Mountain View and held at…
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Google Wants to Provide Free Wi-Fi for San Francisco
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made it a goal to provide a free or inexpensive citywide network last year and bids were submitted by competing firms this Friday, mostly by ISP companies. …
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Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time
Pyra is the company co-founded by Meg Hourihan and Evan Williams, the creators of Blogger. “The buyout is a huge boost to an enormously diverse genre of online publishing that has begun…
