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Google’s Eric Chu Sheds Light on Android
via Android Phone Fans by phandroid.com on May 26, 2008
Eric Chu - Google’s Mobile Platform Program Manager and head honcho for the Android Developers Challenge - spent some time with us to discuss Android, shedding some interesting light along the way.First on the menu was the composition of the ADCs Top 50 Apps. The undeniable majority of apps, if you had to categorize them, fell into the “Social Networking” department. This seems like...
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Find the Font from a Logo
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 27, 2008
WhatTheFont is a site that lets you upload a logo or any other image that contains text and shows you a list of fonts that are likely to be used in that image. WhatTheFont supports some common image formats like GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, but you can't upload images bigger than 360 x 275 pixels.After uploading an image, you may need to enter the corresponding letters from the text, since the...
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Desks
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on June 06, 2008
A reader wrote in to ask what kind of desks we're going to be using for the new office.The ergonomics experts always want you to have your feet flat on the floor. So you have to adjust your seat height first. Then, your arms are supposed to be horizontal while you're typing. This means you need an adjustable-height keyboard.Most of the adjustable height keyboard trays are extremely...
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The customer doesn't care who's fault it is
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on June 04, 2008
A lot of companies point fingers when something goes wrong. So it’s impressive when a company asks, “Even though it’s not our fault, what can we do to make this situation better?”“Believe It or Not, Someone’s Listening” discusses Travelocity’s devotion to the entirety of the customer experience and gives this example:After discovering a pattern of dropped reservations at certain...
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Please Give Us Your Email Password
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on June 04, 2008
Shared by TiTi "why can't I grant them temporary access to my public email address book without giving out the keys to my email kingdom?"A number of people whose opinions I greatly respect have turned me on to Yelp over the last six months or so. Yelp is a community review site, and a great way to discover cool new places in whatever neighborhood you happen to be in.I've enjoyed using...
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Gmail Labs: The Best And The Worst Of The Starters
via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on June 06, 2008
So Gmail just enabled the new Labs tab under your Settings, in an effort to get some users to try out the experimental features Google is playing around with. One of the biggest benefits, at least for testing purposes, is that you can enable multiple Gmail Labs features at once, whereas Google Search Labs features can only be enabled one at a time. I’ve done some experimenting of my own with...
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FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations
via FriendFeed Blog by Bret Taylor on June 06, 2008
I was just on a two-week vacation in Peru, and when I got back, there was so much stuff in my FriendFeed that I couldn't sort through it all. I just wanted to see the most interesting stuff I'd missed.That's why I'm happy to announce we just launched a feature that helps you find the best stuff your friends have shared recently without sifting through your entire feed. Underneath...
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Kevin Fox of Gmail & FriendFeed on User Experience Design
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on June 01, 2008
From 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader. He’s currently working at FriendFeed. I met Kevin for a three-session instant messenger chat interview(edited for clarity, and both parties had the chance to make minor rewordings later on; see more about the...
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Damnit…FriendFeed Gets Even More Useful With An Interestingness Filter
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 06, 2008
I still haven’t decided if FriendFeed, which aggregates activities from other websites like YouTube, Twitter, your blog, Flickr, etc., is the ultimate walled garden of our personal data or possibly the answer to the Centralized Me problem.I keep pushing FriendFeed to take the lead in the DataPortability wars by allowing users to export all that stuff they gather. For now, their feeds and APIs...
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