Links tagged with “google”
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Open Lecture at CIID: “Keeping up with the Kardashevians” – Petafloptimism
Matt Jones on stuff done at BERG and Google, and our anti-anti-utopian future. (Video plus slides & transcript.)
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So, about this Googler’s manifesto. – Yonatan Zunger – Medium
Aside from the sense about that Googler’s document, this is good on what being a high-level engineer means. Confirms for me that, really, I’m a hobbyist.
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In Oracle v. Google, a Nerd Subculture Is on Trial | Motherboard
I love this collision between tech culture and a court made up of “normals”, as the author describes them. (Odd that the article doesn’t say what the trial’s about until the final sentence though.)
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[messaging] Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto
Fascinating summary, from 2014, of the problems with blocking email spam and how end-to-end encryption affects that.
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Adactio: Journal—URLy warning
Jeremy Keith is, as usual, right. Chrome removing the URL bar makes me much sadder, and a bit angrier, than any UI tweaking should.
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Persistent.info: Getting ALL your data out of Google Reader
What it says. QUICK! A command line tool. (via @antimega)
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Google, what were you thinking? ← Mocality Kenya
Some fine Internet detective work from Stef uncovers Google being, well, evil in Kenya.
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Pattern, a Python module for mining web data
Lovely looking module for grabbing data from a variety of web sources, analysing it, and displaying results in different ways. (via Waxy)
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Implementing a Fixed Position iOS Web Application - Google Mobile Developer Products - Google Code
Brilliant: how to (a) make page elements fixed on iOS Safari (which doesn’t acknowledge position:fixed, grrrr) and (b) do scrolling with momentum. Gmail in iOS Safari is very swish.
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Google-refine - Project Hosting on Google Code
Looks very nice - an interface to sort, search, cluster, refine, and generally tidy up large datasets. (via Waxy)
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The government shouldn’t hang on Google’s every word | Charles Arthur | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Yes, it’s good the government is making positive noises about technology, start-ups etc, but also, this. (Although, are you really surprised a government, especially Conservative, is taking policy advice from large companies?)
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The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front)
“An engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products.” (via Haddock)
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Art Fag City » IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View
First, interesting essay on Google Street View as photography/art. Second, really wonderful photos found around the world on it. (via Blech)
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YouTube - Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009
I finally got round to watching this demo. I rarely need collaborative tools and I like plain text email. And yet this really looks like the future. Worth setting aside some time to watch until the end.
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Simonw’s geocoders at master - GitHub
Python “code for accessing various geocoding web services with an ultra simple API”. Sounds good.
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Recreating the button | stopdesign
Doug Bowman on how buttons were developed on Google apps. Good HTML/CSS cleverness. (via Simon Willison)
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Google Open Source Blog: Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released
Excellent - scripts to convert between Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType and WordPress. I reckon every single online service should have an “Export” button and nag you if you haven’t backed-up in a while. (via Tom Taylor)
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Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it. at Aral Balkan
My word, it sounds quite useless really. (via Simon Willison)
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Gmapicons - Google Maps Icons
URLs of all the standard icons.
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Google LatLong: Pound the pavement
Google Maps can now give you walking directions. A quick couple of comparisons in London showed it doesn’t know about as many pedestrian-only alleys etc as WalkIt.com. Yet. (via City of Sound)
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Google Maps API Tutorial
Lots of examples for how to do things with Google Maps. (via Tim Brayshaw)
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Freaky People Productions » Blog Archive » Google Maps causes Safari 1.3.2 to crash
If you use the Google Maps API your Javascript may have recently started crashing Safari 1.3.2. This is how to fix it.
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Associate Email Addresses with a Google Account
I’ve wanted to do this for ages and didn’t know you could. So you can, for example, get your Google Groups messages sent to different email addresses. (via Technovia)
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Google Image Labeler
I’m trying not to let this useful game eat up all of my time, although it’s getting a fair amount of it.
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Google Maps - Treo
Official Google Maps app for the Treo. Works a treat. All it needs now is walking directions…
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Wallflower at the Web Party - New York Times
Why Friendster floundered. I love reading technology failure (or not quite success) stories. (via ChrisDodo)
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Google Maps - Salton City, California
The road layout of an American town founded in the 1950s, which failed to develop. (via Google Sightseeing)
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Tom Mangan’s Fun With Google Maps
Especially the Space Shuttle tracking, and some Javascript for laying other images on top of Google Maps. (via Haddock)
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Google SiteMaps for Movable Type - now with correct Last Modified dates (Anders Jacobsen’s blog)
Another one for the ever-growing “some day” file.
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Google Sightseeing
Gobsmacked. Imagine when the rest of the world is photo-mapped at Google.
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EXCELLATRONIC COMMUNICATIONS: Geotagging Flickr with Google Maps and Greasemonkey Part 2
Must get round to trying this some time.
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As simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google - Anonymous comment
Stitching together a map of the entire USA via Google Maps.
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As simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google
Roughly how the client-side of Google Maps works.