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Google Blogoscoped: What Happened In My Birth Year
What Happened In My Birth Year is a new site I’ve been working on. Feedback to this project very welcome, bug reports too![Thanks Tony, Niniane and Aaron for early testing!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: What Happened In My Birth Year | Comments][Ad...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 3:46am -08:00T (49 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google to Air Super Bowl Ad?
On their way to become a more normal company, Google went from No Ads to Mostly Good Ads. Two examples are the “story” videos for for Google search and one for the Nexus One phone. Some speculations are that Google will now air an ad in the Su...
Dateline: 2010-02-07 5:16am -08:00T (267 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Frequency of Strip Versions of Various Games (xkcd)
[Cartoon from Xkcd by Randall Munroe, (cc) free to share but not to sell] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Frequency of Strip Versions of Various Games ... | Comments][Advertisement] Books about Google available on Ebay...
Dateline: 2010-02-06 6:01am -08:00T (36 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google Chrome PageRank Checker
I was just trying to find out the PageRank of a couple of sites using Internet Explorer’s Google Toolbar, but something was broken. Google Chrome has a nice PageRank extension, though. As you can see in the screenshot, it’s helpful by immediat...
Dateline: 2010-02-06 2:16am -08:00T (118 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google People Hopper
Google’s social network site Orkut has a new application that lets you morph one face into another. Called People Hopper, it was broken yesterday but is working now. I’ve created a profile for this purpose (I deleted my real one a while ago) a...
Dateline: 2010-02-05 3:46am -08:00T (161 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google + NSA?
The Washington Post writes:The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the Nationa...
Dateline: 2010-02-04 3:01am -08:00T (148 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: The Brain-Computer Interface X Prize
H+ Magazine writes:Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites recently rolled out SpaceShipTwo, a commercial passenger spaceship designed after the winning ship that captured the $10M Ansari X PRIZE for spaceflight in 2004. (...)The latest X PRIZE, however, ha...
Dateline: 2010-02-03 3:16am -08:00T (105 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google Chrome OS Tablet Design Exploration
Google’s Chromium.org site contains some pictures “of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware”.
Design studies for other hardware are available too.[Via Spiegel. Pics CC-licensed by Google.] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: ...
Dateline: 2010-02-03 12:46am -08:00T (48 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Did YouTube Block Marijuana Questions in Obama Interview?
Google’s YouTube allowed viewers to submit a question for US president Obama. Over 11,000 questions were asked and over 667,000 votes were cast, YouTube writes, saying they “collected the top questions”. Now, Toke of the Town however wri...
Dateline: 2010-02-02 6:46pm -08:00T (253 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Finding Out a Visitor's Name by Checking Their Social Network Browser History
In A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users, the authors write:In this paper, we introduce a novel de-anonymization
attack against users of social networking sites. In particular,
we show that information about the group memberships of
a...
Dateline: 2010-02-02 5:31pm -08:00T (318 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: An App Store for Google Docs, Gmail?
The Wall Street Journal writes:Google Inc. is preparing to launch a store selling online business software that integrates with its Web services, according to people briefed by the company, enlisting software developers in its battle against Microsoft Cor...
Dateline: 2010-02-02 5:31pm -08:00T (144 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Picasa Web Album Limits (1000 x 1000)
Google apparently previously said that on Picasa Web Albums, you can “Store up to 8,192,000 photos from a 5MP camera”. However, Picasa is limited to 1000 albums containing 1000 pics each... which is far less than the advertised 8,192,000. Peop...
Dateline: 2010-02-01 9:31pm -08:00T (90 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Wikiracing
Wikipedia states: “A Wikirace ... is a race by as many people as you wish, using wikilinks to travel from one Wikipedia page to another. The first person to reach the destination page, or the person that reaches the destination using the fewest nu...
Dateline: 2010-01-31 7:30am -08:00T (74 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Gmail Buzz?
Scott noticed that when you create a label named “buzz” in Gmail, the app will tell you:“Sorry, you can’t create a label named ’buzz’ (it’s a reserved system label). Please try another name”Does anyone know ...
Dateline: 2010-01-31 12:00am -08:00T (149 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Virtual Pianos
You might enjoy playing this virtual piano. Try pessing the arrows and numbers 1 to 7 on your keyboard, and click on the notes. This other online piano is nice too. [Via Reddit.] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Virtual Pianos | Comments][Advertisement] Dire...
Dateline: 2010-01-29 10:15pm -08:00T (48 words)
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