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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
via The Official Google Blog by A Googler on June 07, 2008
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, and Micheal Lopez, Web DesignerYou may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon -- after all, we hadn't in 8.5 years(!). The reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale...
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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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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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FriendFeed: Ex-Googlers Create Social Network Experience Using Feeds
via ReadWriteWeb by Sean Ammirati on February 07, 2008
On the most recent episode of ReadWriteTalk, I sat down with Bret Taylor and Paul Buchheit of FriendFeed. Both have been successful 'intrapreneurs' inside of Google. Buchheit created GMail; while Taylor created Google Maps along with another one of the 4 FriendFeed founders, and then led the Google developer tools program. After leaving Google separately, they eventually started...
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I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on February 25, 2008
Paul Buchheit on listening to users:I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sent it out to a few people for feedback, and they said that it was somewhat useful, but it would be better if it searched over their email instead of mine. That was version two. After I released that...
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Dock Your Old Drives with the Hard Drive USB Dock [Stuff We Like]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 26, 2008
Dock any internal hard drive in this USB dock to turn any internal drive into an external drive on-the-quick. If you've got a few old hard drives hanging around that you'd like to put to good use but they aren't really worth installing in your computer's innards and you don't feel like taking the time to convert that old drive into an external hard drive, this simple dock,...
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PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on May 20, 2008
... remember my first experience with PHP way back in 2001. Despite my questionable pedigree in ASP and Visual Basic, browsing an alphabetical PHP function list was enough to scare me away for years. Somehow, perusing the above list, I don't think things have improved a whole lot since then.I'm no language elitist, ...
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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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The Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes Creations List
via ReadWriteWeb by Corvida on May 28, 2008
Yahoo! Pipes is one of the coolest ways to mashup the RSS feeds of various sites and sources to get the data you want. Since our coverage of Yahoo! Pipes, thousands of creations are now available. However, finding the best picks can be tough. ReadWriteWeb has done the hardest part and comprised a list of some of the best Yahoo Pipes created by users. So without further ado, we give you the...
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Beautiful And Original Product Designs
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 25, 2008
Successful product design manages to reveal useful functionality beyond its appealing form. No matter how excellent a design looks like, most customers aren’t likely to spend money on something they won’t be able to use. On the other hand, most people are likely to buy something useful despite the design it has.Yet the key to a truly successful product design lies in designer’s ability to...
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