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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
via The Official Google Blog by A Googler on June 07, 2008
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, and Micheal Lopez, Web DesignerYou may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon -- after all, we hadn't in 8.5 years(!). The reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale...
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Introducing Gmail Labs
via Official Gmail Blog by Robby Stein on June 06, 2008
Posted by Keith Coleman, Product ManagerWe have a lot ideas for Gmail -- many come as suggestions from Gmail users, many come from people here at Google. But there's only so much we can do at any one time.People often ask how we decide what to build next. It's usually a mix of factors, like how many users are asking for it (think delete button, vacation responder, and IMAP, among others),...
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Redacted CIA document about torture almost entirely blacked out
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 27, 2008
Mary Robinette Kowal says: On the ACLU's blog, they have a PDF of a CIA redacted document about the use of torture. The page is entirely blacked out except for the phrase, "These enhanced techniques include:" and then farther down the page, "waterboard."Link
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Google Sites now open to everyone
via Official Google Blog by A Googler on May 21, 2008
Posted by Andrew Zaeske, Engineering ManagerA few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains. Now we've made it easy for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information -- team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, you name it...
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We could have colonized Mars with the money we spent on the Iraq war -- what else could we do?
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2008
... $6Tn we could buy a lot of juice — a quarter of our global civilization's energy budget would go carbon-neutral at a stroke. (Yes, we just solved our carbon dioxide emissions problem by switching to a nuclear economy.) This probably isn't the ideal way of dealing with our environmental problems, and it's a naive treatment of the costs (has anyone done a proper treatment of the ec...
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How to find any email with Gmail search
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 05, 2008
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerThe sight of someone scrolling through hundreds of email messages trying to find a specific one is like fingers on a chalkboard for me. With a few tricks, you can use Gmail to find the exact message you're looking for, without all the scrolling.If you don't get a ton of mail, just typing in the words you're looking for usually does...
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Google Earth, meet the browser
via Google LatLong by elaine on May 27, 2008
Posted by Paul Rademacher, Technical Lead, Google Earth Browser Plug-inWhen Google Maps was launched in 2005, few could have guessed the way map mashups would permeate the online world. Online maps had been just something you used to get directions or to find the ten nearest grocery stores. Google Maps and the Google Maps API proved that an online map was actually a rich canvas on which entire...
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At long last, real-time stock quotes are here
via Official Google Blog by Karen on June 01, 2008
Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome, and Katie Jacobs Stanton, Principal, New Business DevelopmentWe're very excited to tell you that real-time quotes on NASDAQ securities are now available on Google Finance. This is an important (and way overdue) development for everyone who consumes financial information. Historically, real-time stock data was not freely and widely accessible....
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The Dirty on Revision 3 DOS Attack
via revision3.com by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
As many of you know, Revision3’s servers were brought down over the Memorial Day weekend by a denial of service attack. It’s an all too common occurrence these days. But this one wasn’t your normal cybercrime – there’s a chilling twist at the end. Here’s what happened, and why we’re even more concerned today, after it’s over, than we were on Saturday when it started.It all...
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Sunset on Mars
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on June 02, 2008
Scott Beale says: "As part of their Image of the Day series, NASA posted a beautiful image of a sunset on Mars sent by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on May 19, 2005." Link
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