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Google’s Coolest 20% Project: Liquid Galaxy
At Google I/O this year, one demo booth stood out above all others: The Holodeck. It was basically eight giant, long screens arranged in a circle that displayed Google Street View imagery. When you stepped the contraption, it…
December 7 2009, 9:57am | Comments
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YouTube Offers a Light-Weight Version For Slow Computer [YouTube]
One of the main complaint about underpowered netbooks is that they can't even handle YouTube. YouTube! What good is using the internet if you can't watch cat videos? But now Feather is here to fix that. Feather is…
December 3 2009, 7:01pm | Comments
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Chrome For Mac Beta Launch Is Imminent
Sometime in the past few hours, the Mac Detailed Status page on Chromium’s website has been changed to the “Mac OS X Roadmap.” Why? Because the team has wiped out the bugs that were blocking a beta release…
December 3 2009, 6:51pm | Comments
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Google News changes are a bad way to cure a misdiagnosed problem
Today's announcement by Google that it will change the way that subscription content is listed in Google News is nothing if not carefully timed. The internet's most powerful company hopes it can quieten some of the aggravation with…
December 2 2009, 7:24pm | Comments
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Google Rolls Out New Format for Image Results
According to an announcement on the Official Google Blog, the search engine giant is rolling out a new format for their universal image results. Set to go live over the next 24 hours, the updated format will now…
December 2 2009, 1:55pm | Comments
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Is Google Gears Dead? [Google]
It was over two years ago when Google announced Gears, which promised to make Google services—and potentially lots more—available offline. Since then the project has moved at a creep, all but stalling entirely. Gears, it seems, has died.…
December 1 2009, 3:14pm | Comments
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More Evidence Apple's Looking Beyond Google for iPhone Maps? [Speculation]
A few months ago, Apple bought their own mapmaker, Placebase, which seemingly opened the possibility of non-Google-y maps. Now, they're looking for an iPhone maps engineer to "rethink how users use Maps and change the way people find…
November 30 2009, 9:46pm | Comments
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Twitter Doesn’t Track The Zeitgeist. Only 2 Percent Of Tweets Overlap With Search Trends.
Whenever you want to take a reading of the current zeitgeist, popular search terms can tell you a lot about what’s on people’s minds. Right now, for instance, the hottest search terms on Google Trends include “lakewood police…
November 30 2009, 5:31am | Comments
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Only 8 Bugs Stand In The Way Of Chrome For Mac Beta
We know that a beta version of Chrome for Mac is due at least by the end of December, but today brings more confirmation that it may be even closer than that. Mike Pinkerton, the guy leading the…
November 29 2009, 10:27pm | Comments
