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Google News Layer for Google Earth
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 20, 2008
There's a new layer for Google Earth that shows Google News stories related to a location. At the recent "Factory Tour of Search" event, Google explained the difficulties of automatically identifying the locations of a news story. For example, just because a news article includes "Paris" doesn't mean that the article talks about France's capital. It could be about the Texas city or...
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Four Firsts for Feeds
via massless by Chris Wetherell on June 11, 2008
For the last few years or so, I've been fortunate enough to have my day job involve thinking critically about reading feeds. As a result, I've been musing about first principles.When Google Reader was first pitched, we had only one guiding principle for building software that would deal with feed reading and that's mostly worked well. But after years of development I think it'd be...
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OneSpot Makes Publishing Personalized Memetrackers Simple
via louisgray.com by louisgray on June 17, 2008
News aggregation sites that can help highlight the freshest, most relevant or most popular news from around the Web are essential to separating the signal from the noise. But all too often, these memetrackers are siloed, without readers having all that much input into what's considered most relevant, or determining what content gets in and what does not.The success of Gabe Rivera's...
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You suck at Photoshop
via CrunchGear by Peter Ha on January 18, 2008
I’ve somehow learned more about Photoshop from watching these videos than anything else. Absolutely hilarious. Episode 1Episode 2
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Be part of the Super Tuesday action
via Official Google Blog by Karen on February 04, 2008
Posted by Brittany Bohnet, Google Elections TeamThey don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing! Today marks an exciting day in the race to the U.S. Presidency: voters in 24 states will choose their party candidates. This will be the largest number of primaries taking place at one time in the history of the U.S. electoral system.We've joined forces with Twitter to give you instant updates...
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Top 10 Places for Photography in San Francisco
via Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection by Thomas Hawk on February 27, 2008
... highlighted different views of the points of interest with links so that you can get a better idea what I'm talking about. Most images are geotagged so you should be able to find them pretty easily. If you can't find a site for whatever reason, shoot me an email or comment and I'll try to point you in the right direction.So on with the list. #1 The Golden Gate Bridge. This...
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Think Apple Would Dare To Take On the Movie Theaters?
via louisgray.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by kskobac Is Mark Cuban reading this post?With the addition of movie rentals on iTunes, Apple has given my wife and me a new entertainment outlet, letting us essentially have video on demand from a wide library, for only 3 or 5 dollars, at any time we wish. Just recently, Apple made more headlines by signing a pact where new DVD releases would simultaneously debut on iTunes. But this...
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Customize Your Google Reader Sidebar [How To]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 18, 2008
You've seen how Google Reader's iPhone interface fits oh-so-nicely into your Firefox sidebar, and now the How-To Geek shows how you can make it even more compact and useful. Using some bookmark digging and the Stylish themeing extension for Firefox, you can remove Reader's blue border and header, change the font sizes, and reduce the feed displays to headlines only. Hit the link for...
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MSNBC’s Spectra News Vortex: A Total Looker
via Mashable! by Paul Glazowski on May 23, 2008
Used to reading news headlines by way of a linear RSS reader, are you? Bored by the daily routine, are you? We understand. Of course, some applications, both Web-based and local, offer glossier presentations than others, but for the most part, they’re dull, the news looks flavorless, and frankly, you could use something more exciting and attractive once in a while, just as you would a nice...
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Blogging 2.0 and Advertising
via The Inquisitr by (author unknown) on May 24, 2008
... 1.0: the electronic newspaper modelIt may surprise some to know that the blogging 1.0 reveune model wasn’t really original. The first wave of blogs relied on selling advertising on their site while giving away the content for free, the exact same model used by free newspapers around the world today. Blogging also borrowed from traditional newspapers through RSS and email subscription mo...
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