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Explore Your Interactions with Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 16, 2008
Web applications track many user actions and use them for different purposes: improving the products, finding patterns, building user profiles etc. For example, Google Reader records some of your actions without providing options in the interface to access the data. Here are some addresses where you can find historical data about the items you've subscribed to (click on "View all items" to...
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Google Confirms Friend Connect
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 11, 2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s...
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Companies Change, So Do their Logos
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on February 06, 2008
What does a logo say about a company? And what does it say when those logos change? A logo is more than just window dressing. It is a company’s identity boiled down to its bare essence, and is often the essential image consumers have in their mind when they think about a corporation. Products change, but logos endure. Or do they?Neatorama has a great post that goes through the evolution of...
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Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 30, 2008
Lately Twitter has been cleaning house, raising money, doing interviews and actually talking to users. In a blog post last week they did a Q&A session, directly answering questions about Twitter’s architecture.So I have a couple of questions, too, based on a couple of discussions I’ve had with people who say they’ve seen Twitter’s architecture. Is it true that you only have a single...
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Share and Annotate Web Pages in Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 05, 2008
Google Reader's sharing feature was barely noticed when it was added, then it got more exposure when the shared items started to be broadcasted to Google Talk contacts and somesites aggregated shared posts. As Google Reader became more social, people discovered that it has some important limitations. "Have you ever wanted to share something that you were reading, but you didn't want to go...
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Gmail Labs: A Public Stage for Googlers’ 20% Time
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on June 04, 2008
Google invited members of the press to its main campus in Mountain View to unveil a new beta feature platform for Gmail called Gmail Labs.Gmail Labs is essentially a stage for Googlers from all areas within the company to develop new features for Gmail, and to do so under the public eye. Starting at 6pm PT tonight, all Gmail users in the US and UK will see a new tab in the settings area called...
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MySpace Shows Facebook How It’s Done: Google Gears To Power Messaging
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 27, 2008
Shared by Michael Really interesting development!The Google I/O conference in San Francisco kicks off today with a really welcome announcement: MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a user’s local machine and allow for very fast search and sorting. This is the largest third party implementation of Gears and the first time a search and...
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Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 19, 2008
This German exibition is showcasing bright infrared LED devices that overwhelm the CCDs in security cameras, allowing you to move through modern society in relative privacy. I used this as a gimmick in my story I, Robot -- now I want to own one!The URA / FILOART developed device promises to the citizens of a more reliable protection against security measures of the state (and other...
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Add Google Reader, Techmeme, and TechCrunch Tabs to FriendFeed
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on June 04, 2008
Who knew Duncan Riley was such a Greasemonkey? My former colleague just made FriendFeed a lot more useful for people on Firefox. Using Greasemonkey, an add-on to Firefox that lets developers customize Webpages through the browser, he created some scripts that add tabs to FriendFeed that make it even more of a super start page than it already is. He got the idea from this app called...
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Hanging out with a fast company (emphasis on fast)
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on February 18, 2008
OK, I see the challenge is on. Jason Calacanis, founder/CEO of Mahalo, tonight, told me he had to find something better that whatever I saw at Microsoft last week that made me cry. I didn’t realize just how far he’d go to outdo Microsoft.What I experienced tonight made it impossible to cry.Why?Well, let’s just say that my tear ducts are now implanted on the back of my skull.So, what did...
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