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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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Live Coverage Of Google Gmail Event
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 04, 2008
... gmail, as well as historical views of Gmail and Gtalk.Google says they are making a big change in how they do product development. Currently they read user requests, their own ideas (GTalk is example, or single view on multiple messages in a related thread). All features are launched internally weeks or months before it reaches the public. Now they want to get Gmail users to help them re...
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How the Web Was Won
via www.vanityfair.com by (author unknown) on June 03, 2008
An Oral History of the InternetHow the Web Was WonFifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign. Each breakthrough—network protocols, hypertext, the World...
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visualizing large graphs
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on June 02, 2008
a collection of about 1,890 graph drawings of matrices in the University of Florida Collection. each of the datasets, here sparse matrices is viewed as the adjacency matrix of an undirected graph, which is laid out by a multilevel graph drawing algorithm. if the graph is disconnected, then the largest connected component is drawn. the largest graph in this collection has 8,863,287 vertices &...
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Understanding Amazon Web Services
via Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog by (author unknown) on May 30, 2008
There are two ways to look at Amazon.com: as a retailer, and as a software company that runs a retailing application. Both are accurate, and in combination they explain why Amazon, rather than a traditional computer company, has become the most successful early mover in supplying computing as a utility service. For Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it...
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Whatever Happened to UI Consistency?
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on June 01, 2008
Although I rather like Windows Vista -- I think the amount of Vista nerd rage out there is completely unwarranted -- there are areas of Vista I find hugely disappointing. And for my money, nothing is more disapponting than the overall fit and finish of Vista, which is truly abysmal. It's arguably the worst of any operating system Microsoft has ever released.What do I mean by fit and finish?...
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Google on Archiving and Retrieving Documents Using Your Camera Phone
via SEO by the SEA by William Slawski on June 01, 2008
You’ve returned to your hotel room from a business meeting with a pocket full of business cards from people that you’ve met, and receipts from your business trip. One at a time, you place the cards and receipts on a desk in your room and snap pictures of them with the phone on your camera, and send the photos off to Google to be processed.The cards and receipts are scanned, and organized for...
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Google Street View Cars on Video
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 26, 2008
According to the descriptions on YouTube, the first video is a Google Street View car in Seville, Spain, and the second is one around Palm Springs, California, US. These cars from the Google fleet have a camera mounted on top to photograph the panorama views that are later added to Google Maps. It’s like the first Googlebots spotted in the wild, and perhaps signs of a future to come in which...
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The Camera Flash Experiment
via Improv Everywhere by Charlie Todd on May 29, 2008
See it larger on flickrFor our latest mission, 700 agents lined the length of the Brooklyn Bridge a week before its 125th birthday. In the rain and cold we created a wave of camera flashes across the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Enjoy the video below and then read on for the report and tons of photos.(Also available on YouTube)edited by Jamey Shafer / song by Tyler WalkerDigital Video:...
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UNIX tips: Productivity tips
via www-128.ibm.com by (author unknown) on May 30, 2008
The language of the UNIX® command line is notoriously versatile: With a panorama of small tools and utilities and a shell to combine and execute them, you can specify many precise and complex tasks.But when used in an office setting, these same tools can become a powerful ally toward increasing your productivity. Many techniques unique to UNIX can be applied to the issue of workplace...
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