R Culbertson> hmm, when did they add themes to Google Personalized Home Page?
That started me on a new wow with Google. It turns out they snuck in a new feature to allow one to personalize their “personalized homepage” with themes (look on the right hand side). [Edit: Note that the screeny changed (doesn't look the [...]
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Asteroids, Space Invaders, Centipede and Tetris—remember when you could only play these games at an arcade? I would line up behind at least 6 people for my chance at Asteroids.
Time warp—now it’s 2007. Games can be played anywhere and at anytime. In this mobile world, games have evolved to become a part of our lives. [...]
In an interview, FAA chief information officer David Bowen said he’s taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency’s Windows XP-based desktop computers and laptops. Bowen cited several reasons why he finds Google Apps attractive. “It’s a different sort of computing strategy,” he said. “It [...]
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We have a system that can learn to translate better if we know where the problems are. In the past, there was no way to tell us about problem translations. Now there is. Next time you see a sentence that makes you go “hmmm,” just hover over it to display the original text tooltip and [...]
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When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you’re using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you’ve probably good a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives. Google studied a hundred thousand SATA and PATA drives with between 80 [...]
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When you look at the logo, you may worry that we forgot our name overnight, skipped a letter, or have decided that “Googe” has a better ring to it. None of the above. I just know that those with true romance and poetry in their soul will see the subtlety immediately. And if you’re [...]
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You see the pictures of the fun loving and quirky Google. And so is with very little surprise to find that they sponsored a Lego Robotics challenge.
…so we (Google) were honored last weekend to receive the “FIRST LEGO® League Outreach” award at the Northern California FLL championship tournament. FLL is a program encouraging fourth- [...]
One of the most useful aspects of feed readers is how easy they make it to keep track of industry news. Which in my case means using Google Reader to read about… Google Reader. For example, I subscribe to the Google Blogsearch for “Google Reader” (which has a feed) so I know whenever someone writes [...]
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Talk about unintended consequences, all I wanted to do with “A Review of My First Year of Blogging” was provide some factoids about my blog. However, this tidbit became quite the topic:
Total advertising revenue: approximately $3,350 = $1.39 cpm. (This assumes that I can get Google to pay me. I’ve tried several times during the [...]
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I’ve read the Zeitgeist reports each year and found them sometime boring and sometimes intersting/boring. Well this year they posted on the Official Google Blog on how they come up with the idea. And made a little more sense on why some search results made #1. So go ahead and continue reading [...]
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