43 posts tagged “google”

Why not put data centres on the moon ! instead of just following the moon or following the sun !

Google is even advertising moon vacancies !

• http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
• http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job2.html

Turbo: Speed up WordPress

WordPress now has support for Google Gears, which adds new features to your web browser. After you install and enable Gears, most of WordPress’ images, scripts, and CSS files will be stored locally on your computer.
This speeds up page load time but don’t install on a public or shared computer.

I just used Google to search for JavaScriptWebServices and got 51,000,000 which was completely UNEXPECTED.
It seems that Google had decided to split my single 'word' search into two separate words and if i want to stop Google 'splitting' my keywords i have to enclose them in ""'s as in "JavaScriptWebServices" and only then get the < 10 results I waqs expecting !

So when did Google start arbitarily changing users queries and how can I stop them doing it again ?

http://xant.us/ext-ux/examples/gmap-window/

My Google Groups !

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I hope this blog illustrates my last blog about the demise of Google !

Here are a few great links that I found via del.icio.us instead of google :

• http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/05/why-search-competition-isnt-the-point.html
• http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/p5/tube_map_travel_times/applet/
• http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C40069388000257459003247D9.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
• http://www.supergeotagged.com/
  

So how did i use del.icio.us to find these ?

I just did it the Web 2.0 / Social Media Network / Web 3.0 way and just looked at other links from the first 30 people in the world to del.ici.ify about the Google Earth Monster Milk Truck Game !

You might find it rewarding to add those 30 people to your del.icio.us network too !

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/05/why-search-competition-isnt-the-point.html

Web 2.0 (or whatever the fullness of the Internet Operating System ends up being called) is far bigger than search. Yes, search is currently the most valuable and monetizable Web 2.0 application--or perhaps better-named, subsystem. But look back at 1984: Lotus was bigger and more valuable than Microsoft ($153 million in revenues to Microsoft's $100 million, and growing faster -- Lotus had tripled in size, while Microsoft had only doubled.) But we now know that Microsoft had the stronger position.

As I've said in my Web 2.0 talks from the very beginning, a platform beats an application every time.

...

True search innovation will come from something that doesn't look like search. Google's video search efforts foundered, while YouTube took off. (Google was smart enough to buy YouTube quickly.) Facebook took off in an area that could be characterized as "people search." Tweetspace is becoming a hidden transmission channel for information, one that Google doesn't yet search. Everything Microsoft (and other explicit search competitors, including most specialized search startups) is incremental innovation.

Google's search dominance will be toppled by a disruptive innovation that changes the game, not by playing catch-up at the same game.

The challenges that keep Google on their toes, innovating in search, will come from outside the current system.

I think Tim O'Reilly puts this much more clearly than I have been trying to for the last two years !

Thank you tulrich for blogging (and creating ?) the Google Earth FireFox Plug-in and the Google Earth Monster Milk Float Game !

You can write Google Earth Plug-in apps using Javascript, including game-like things. It's pretty fun. It also integrates smoothly with Google Maps API sites; basically you just enable 3D, and most things will magically work.

http://www.google.com/earth/plugin/examples/milktruck/

FON Raises $9.5 Million and renames hotspots from FON_AP to FON_FREE_INTERNET

However there seems to be a LOT of debate about the new FON_FREE_INTERNET name as its only free for reading your GoogleMail or for 15 minutes of "internet" time !

Read more @ :

• http://blog.fon.com/en/archive/business/fon-raises-95-million.html
• http://myfonblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/fon-raises-95-million.html
• http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/investments/fon-raises-95-million-in-tough-markets.html
• http://boards.fon.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4241
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/10/fon-raises-another-95-million-in-c-round/

Here are some Google Open Source Code projects that you might not have heard of ! Yet !

• http://code.google.com/p/android/
• http://code.google.com/p/adwords-api-php-samples/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-ajaxslt/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-checkout-php-sample-code/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/
• http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/
• http://code.google.com/p/pactester/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-mmaim/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-kongulo/
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/
• http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/
• http://code.google.com/p/visigami/
• http://code.google.com/p/zxing/