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Street View Blurs Out Faces
via Googlified by Haochi on May 13, 2008
The Google LatLong Blog announced several updates to the images of Manhanttan used in Google Street View. Among the updates, I find their new move to blur out people’s faces to be quite interesting.We’re also taking this opportunity to test our new face-blurring technology on the busy streets of Manhattan. This effort has been a year in the making — working at Street View-scale is a tough...
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swan lake
via [daily dose of imagery] by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
Centre Island.
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How to find any email with Gmail search
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 06, 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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Spreading OpenSocial Across the Web
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 12, 2008
Any web site can be a container for OpenSocial, any web site can add social features even if it's not a social network - that seems to be the idea behind Friend Connect, a new piece from Google's social puzzle. Friend Connect will allow the users of a site to add profiles, to import their friends from other social networks, to use social applications in the context of a site.Paul Buchheit...
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The Burning Sun in Cambodia
via Stuck In Customs by tratcliff on May 13, 2008
I’ve never sweat as much in my life as I did while exploring the remote parts of Cambodia. This temple was about an hour by sketchy motorbike outside of Siem Reap. There was absolutely no shade anywhere, since the only parts of the temple that remained standing offered no cover at all!
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Google OneBox for Premier League (and Other Sports Results)
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 05, 2008
Football* fans from the UK should rejoice: Google added an OneBox that shows scores and upcoming matches when you search for the name of a team (Arsenal, Manchester United etc). Apparently, Google shows the OneBox only for the US and the UK sites.EPL Talk wonders if Google pays a fee to display this information, but I wouldn't worry about that. "By law, publishers must pay a license fee to...
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Share and Annotate Web Pages in Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 06, 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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average American consumer spending
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
an interactive infographic treemap representing how much the average American citizen spends on 84,000 products in about 200 categories, including fast food, car insurance, rent, electricity, garbage collection & so on. larger shapes make up a larger part of spending. individual shapes can be selected & the treemap can be zoomed in & out.the combination of the organic looking treemap shapes &...
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The Google Era of Computing
via Google Blogoscoped by Sridhar Vembu on May 06, 2008
The CEO of online office Google Docs competitor Zoho, Sridhar Vembu, regularly sends out interesting thoughts from the Zoho blog for others to republish. Below is a partial (partly snipped) reposting of his latest musing; you can find the full text (titled “IBM, Microsoft & Google Eras of Computing”) from May 2nd over there.By now it is conventional wisdom to say that there was an IBM Era of...
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Google's Head of PR Leaves for Facebook
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 06, 2008
Elliot Schrage has left Google to join Facebook, BoomTown reports. Google on their management information page explains Elliot is or was “Vice President, Global Communications & Public Affairs” and “responsible for the company’s public-facing communications, including media relations, policy strategy and stakeholder outreach, as well as internal communications.” At Google Press Day...
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