Google is removing its Street View vehicles from German roads. While the images already captured will remain accessible, new images will not be added to Google's maps of Germany.Read | Permalink Read more »
Help Fix Google Privacy Campaign: Submit Your Comments
The FTC is seeking public comment on its proposed Agreement with Google regarding Google Buzz, and EPIC wants your voice to be heard! Use the form below to help build your comments. EPIC will send your comments and information to the FTC and use them t... Read more »
Your Face May Soon Be Tied To Data at Google
Google knows a lot about you. Now they want to add a face to all that data. There is discussion of adding a facial-recognition app for mobile devices. Google is denying the report.Read | Permalink Read more »
+1 is Shorthand for ‘This is Pretty Cool’
Google Search has a new social "feature". If you are logged into Google, you can recommend sites by adding a "+1" or see recommendations from others. This page includes a short video.Read | Permalink Read more »
Your Questions About Libya Map
Betty asks… I am looking for a detailed map of Libya, thorough enough for me to be able to see village names? I am trying to plot the route of Operation Compass where the Allies advanced through Northern Libya, and would like to be able to place the towns they talk about. Google maps, and [...] Read more »
Having A Harder Time Finding What You’re Looking For On The Web?
The Internet is getting staggeringly “large.” (How large? See this infographic.)
Though there are plenty of very smart people working very hard to make it easy for you to keep finding the things you’re looking for, as well as finding solutions to that conundrum librarians are especially acquainted with – finding the thing you didn’t know you were looking for – it is still getting increasingly difficult to find signal in the noise.
Read more »Over the past few years, I’ve noticed that it is increasingly difficult to find what you’re looking for online. Of course there are (or were? wow) services like delicious. But the issue I’m talking about is signal to noise. There’s a ton of information on the net. As Carl Sagan would say in his Kermit-the-frog voice, “billions and billions of interwubs. How can we parse it, and find what we need? What about when we don’t even know what we need?
This problem is of course how…
Snoop Dogg, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga Go Where The Money Is: Silicon Valley
Facebook = Katy Perry; Twitter = Snoop Dogg; Google = Lady Gaga. Who's got the biggest star? Not much competition as Alexia Tsotsis points out at TechCrunch:
As the battle for Silicon Valley engineering talent intensifies, it seems as if hot tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter have launched some sort of ridiculous competition as to who could can score the biggest Hollywood talent for an onsite appearance, in order to wow current and future employees.
Between Ashton Kutcher and Chamillionaire at Y Combinator Demo days... Read more »
Google releases open source Bitcoin client
BitcoinJ, developed by Google engineer Gavin Andresen, implements a "simplified payment verification" mode that doesn't require a central bank or payment system. This is a short video explaining how the system works.Read | Permalink Read more »
Good and Bad in Google Book Search Settlement Decision
Yesterday’s decision rejecting the proposed settlement in the Google Books case, Authors Guild v. Google, got a number of things right. For starters, as we wrote shortly after the decision was announced, we’re glad that the court acknowledged the ... Read more »
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