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The Evolution of Pre-Launch Gmail In Screenshots
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on June 06, 2008
When visiting Google yesterday for the unveiling of Gmail Labs, product manager Keith Coleman took us on a tour of the Googleplex’s Building 47.Along the way, we saw Googlers hard at work on Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and other related projects. But the coolest part was a stop in a conference room where Coleman had laid out printed screenshots depicting the evolution of Gmail’s user interface...
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Google Reader Gets More Social: Now With Notes
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Shared by Zee M sharing this with note about google reader with notes..Google has added support for Notes to Google Reader, allowing users to share notes or add notes to shared stories.The add a note feature is located in the “Your Stuff” menu at the top of the Google Reader sidebar. Tumblr style, the feature allows users to share with friends “whatever pops into your head (for better or...
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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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Stanford Computer Science Grads Getting $95k Offers From Google
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on January 30, 2008
Google and Facebook are fighting hard to hire this years crop of computer science graduates, we’ve heard, and ground zero is Stanford. Most of the class of 2008 already have job offers. Last year, salaries of up to $70,000 were common for the best students. This year, Facebook is said to be offering $92,000, and Google has increased some offers to $95,000 to get their share. Students with a...
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Pownce Opens To Public Tonight At Midnight; Early Screen Shots Of New Features
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on January 21, 2008
Pownce, a service that lets users send messages, files, links, and events to friends, first launched into private beta over six months ago. It was founded by Leah Culver, Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka (Ros
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Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 17, 2008
Photo sharing site Flickr is one of the leading lights of Yahoo - but cofounders (and husband/wife team) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won’t be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.Fake officially left last Friday. Butterfield (who still officially runs Flickr) will leave on July 12. Kakul Srivastava, the...
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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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The MacBook Air: Thin Enough To Slice A Cake
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 31, 2008
Rahul Sood, the CTO of HP’s gaming systems division (formerly VoodooPC), has found a new use for the MacBook Air: slicing cake. Handed a MacBook Air as a “present” at his birthday, he wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. So he tested its razor-thinness on the cake. “It’s so damn sharp, it did a fine job,” he reports. Probably not what the folks at Apple had in mind. PhoneTag...
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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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