Tag Archives: Google

Google Reader’s new Play feature turns your feeds into slide show of visual awesomeness

Google has taken another step toward presenting your entire digital life in slide show format with Play. First it was Fast Flip. Is Gmail’s inbox up next for this treatment?
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Link: Bicycling Directions, Trails Come to Google Maps

Bicycling Directions, Trails Come to Google Maps And to think I had begun drawing green lines on my own personal Google maps.
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A mighty struggle with embedding Google Reader shared items on my blog and glorious, oh glorious, victory

After reading this post from Robin Good, I finally got around to executing an efficient way to share what I’m watching, reading, listening to and playing with on the Web by embracing Google Reader’s sharing power. Yes, my three readers, there is now a Recommended Reading page AND a widget in this site’s sidebar. Go [...]
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Google’s chief economist explains value in era of endless info

Hal R. Varian quoted in Wired: Varian believes that a new era is dawning for what you might call the datarati—and it’s all about harnessing supply and demand. ‘What’s ubiquitous and cheap?’ Varian asks. ‘Data.’ And what is scarce? The analytic ability to utilize that data.” Providing information analysis is a task that is related to but [...]
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What’s in a search engine’s name?

Microsoft wants more than 10.3% of searches. Google is in the way. Or maybe there really is a lot in a name after all. So Microsoft’s Live is gone. Hello, Bing. Did anyone in Redmond talk to Urban Dictionary first? I did two searches. An ego investigation, and the name of the engine. Here’s Google’s version of the [...]
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Success is a by-product, not an objective: Manage culture and values, not people and tasks

Summary: In a Washington Post video (embedded at the bottom of this post), Google CEO Eric Schmidt says establishing and maintaining a certain culture and certain values at the company helps create success as a by-product as well as employees who do not need (as much of or a certain type of) managing [via SteveOuting.com]. My [...]
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