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Does your password pass the test?
via Official Google Blog by A Googler on June 03, 2008
Posted by HongHai Shen, EngineerThis post is the latest in an ongoing series about online safety. - Ed.One of the things I work on is password security. And because I'm someone who pays close attention to passwords and how people use them, I sometimes hear interesting stories. For example, a couple of my colleagues are so careful about the security of their passwords that they generate a...
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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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Today is Document Freedom Day
via Official Google Blog by Karen on March 25, 2008
Posted by Zaheda Bhorat, Open Source Programs ManagerToday, the world is celebrating the first-ever Document Freedom Day. More than 200 teams in 60 countries are spending today raising awareness about document freedom by hosting speakers, events, and literally raising the DFD flag. Through such activities, these teams are committed to spreading the word about the importance of open documents and...
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Study: .gov web sites should focus on RSS, XML—not redesigns
via Ars Technica by leex1008@umn.edu (Timothy B. Lee) on June 03, 2008
Researchers at Princeton's Center for IT Policy have released a new paper urging federal agencies to focus on improving the availability of raw government data rather than building better user-facing web sites. They predict that if the data is made available in a structured format, private parties will develop innovative sites to view and manipulate it.Read More...
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Rethinking the Spreadsheet: Google Forms and Live Data
via GigaOM by Alistair Croll on February 13, 2008
Google recently announced a new feature: forms. By combining spreadsheets with bulk e-mail, the new function (which was revealed on the Google Docs blog) lets a spreadsheet author send out a mail with fields for recipients to fill in. As they do, the spreadsheet gets completed. It’s a real-time survey that pumps data straight into a spreadsheet.It’s also another example of the difference...
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How Little Do Users Read? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
via www.useit.com by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Shared by Ionut The conclusion is that people don't actually read, they just scan the text.I was able to fit very nice formulas to describe users' reading behavior for pages containing between 30 and 1,250 words. For longer pages, reading became quite erratic. Pages with a huge word count are probably not "real" pages anyway � they're more likely to be either academic papers or...
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Official Google Reader Blog: Brand new Google Reader for iPhone
via googlereader.blogspot.com by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
Shared by Bwana Really anxious to try it out!! My iPhone battery just died so I have to wait!
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App Engine Launcher for Mac OS X
via Official Google Mac Blog by Scott Knaster on May 14, 2008
By John Grabowski, Google Mac TeamAs you probably know, Googlers are offered 20% of our time to work on what we're really passionate about. On the Google Mac Team, one of our passions is keeping the Mac a first-class citizen for Google products and services.When I first saw Google App Engine, I was excited at the possibilities. It is still amazing to realize that Google will let external...
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The trailer for the new Coen Brothers movie, Burn...
via kottke.org by cliffkuang@gmail.com on June 01, 2008
The trailer for the new Coen Brothers movie, Burn After Reading. It's straight up comedy. The Coen Brothers should have rights to punch up every script ever written by Hollywood. (link)
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ebb & flow of movies
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
a compelling interactive data visualization of the box office receipts between 1986 & 2007. each shape corresponds to a single film. the height shows the weekly box office revenue, the width its longevity. color further highlights the success of a movie. the specific visualization method is known as a ThemeRiver, originally published in 1999 here (PDF). see also music listening history graph">,...
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