Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The Masters Of Rustic Chic By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Roman & Williams has created nostalgic interiors that most others can only emulate. Here’s the lunchroom they created with Facebook. Google ruined everything. Microsoft gave out free soft drinks, but Google let employees eat gourmet food for… RT @FastCoDesign: Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The … Continue reading Rustic eco chic in the Facebook cafeteria
How to Get the Gmail Address You Want Chelsea Stark, mashable.com 1. Display Density 2. Button Labels 3. No Markers 4. Stars 5. Move Icons 6. Labels 7. Circles 8. High Contrast 9. Google Docs Gadget 10. Right-Side Chat 11. Undo Send http://flip.it/MSOYV Related articles Infographic: The Evolution of Google's Gmail (moneymakingblog101.wordpress.com) Latest Google service … Continue reading Get a good Gmail Username
How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search By Sarah Kessler, fastcodesign.com Google Search’s designers are treating what was once just an ugly list of links like a software application. On the same day that Larry Page became Google’s CEO for the second time, he ordered a redesign of all its products. Which came as a… … Continue reading Google designers tasked to revamp search experience
Brian Lam, thewirecutter.com It’s the most boring thing a tech writer can write, but the best smartphone is still the iPhone. It’s the truth. (Last Updated October 29, 2012: The Google Nexus 4 was unveiled today. Windows Phone 8 also launched today. The iPhone is st… The iPhone 5 Is the Best Smartphone | The … Continue reading The iPhone 5 Is the Best Smartphone
Five Best Computer Monitors Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Upgrading your computer’s hardware isn’t the only way to feel like you have a new machine. A new monitor can go a long way towards making your computer more fun to use and more functional. At the same time, there are hundreds of displays out there… Five Best … Continue reading Lifehacker: best computer monitors
lifehack.org So, you were looking for a great alternative to Apple’s Mail.app on OS X and iOS and stumbled upon Sparrow. It was fast, handled mail in a comfortable and familiar Gmail fashion, and was full featured. It was all good until you heard th… http://flip.it/WU03e Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email Related … Continue reading Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email
Your Online Bio, Supercharged Jennifer Alsever, inc.com Inc. magazine The skinny on three services that help you create personal webpages to encompass your entire online life. Chances are good that your bio on the company website includes little more than a headshot, title, and career… RT @ashleycalloway: 3 sites to help you build your personal … Continue reading Why the resume is dead and profile pages are the new standard
Google’s cloud-based music-matching service has arrived… and it’s free Cyrus Farivar, arstechnica.com This is what Ars editor Cyrus Farivar sent to Google Play this morning.Cyrus FarivarGoogle has announced its own music-matching locker service, but unlike Amazon’s Cloud Player and Apple’s iTunes Match, this new service is free. Google Play, in th… RT @arstechnica: Google’s cloud … Continue reading Google cloud music match is free
Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the November 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… http://flip.it/FiWXt Related articles Why … Continue reading Funf: computational social science in your pocket
YouTube launches Capture, a video recording and enhancing app for iOS By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com YouTube has just launched Capture, a new app for iOS. It lets users take quick video, make minor adjustments, and upload that video to YouTube, Google+, Facebook, or Twitter. The app is built specifically for iPhone and iPod touch and … Continue reading YouTube app lets you edit and record video easily on iOS
Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com Does Drive stand a chance against sync and backup veterans? Google’s very own “Loch Ness monster,” also known as Google Drive, has finally launched. It’s the new face of Google Documents, and it’s also Google’s oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It… … Continue reading Benchmarking cloud sync and storage
The Verge at work: backing up your brain By Thomas Houston, theverge.com How I use Evernote as a memory tool for deep reading, writing, and research The Verge at Work is a series about process. We’re not scientists, and we’re not gurus, we’re just trying to get some work done. The solutions presented here ar… … Continue reading The Evernote clipping obsession
Netflix launches monthly ISP speed rankings, praises Google Fiber, and calls out AT&T By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Netflix is widely acknowledged to make up a large chunk of downstream internet traffic, and the company is now using that position to start charting how fast ISPs can stream movies to customers. Every month, it’s announced, it … Continue reading Netflix is a good place to see how fast your Internet service is
Alex Williams, techcrunch.com Y Combinator company ZenPayroll launched its cloud-based payroll service today with $6.1 million in seed funding from Google Ventures and investments from the CEOs at Yammer, Box, Yelp and Dropbox. It is the largest seed round ever … RT @TechCrunch: ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs … Continue reading ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox
Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Use of Google’s takedown tool for search results has grown tenfold in the past six months, the company reports. When it started publicly posting takedown notices in late May, around 250,000 requests a week went … Continue reading Copyright law on the digital frontier
UK Startup Loccit Sells 8k Facebook ‘Memory Books’ In 48 Hours, Wants To Turn Your Digital Media Footprint Into Physical Stuff Natasha Lomas, techcrunch.com There’s a cottage industry of startups that want to sell your social networking content back to you in a new form, such as PastBook and Memolane. Loccit, a UK-based ecommerce startup … Continue reading Loccit converts your Facebook media into physical stuff
Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com Startup biotech company Transcriptic has raised $1.2 million in a seed funding round from a wide group of investors led by Google Ventures and FF Angel (Founders Fund‘s seed stage arm), and private investors Mark Cuban and … Continue reading Transcriptic biotech startup funded by Google Ventures
From The Makers Of Orchestra Comes Mailbox, The Best Email Management App You’ll Ever Use Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com Every now and then, I get my hands on an application or a piece of technology that I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about. Something that is a joy to use, tackles a … Continue reading Better mail apps for the Mac
Apple’s Best Of App Store 2012 Rewards Creativity, Google; Skype And Rovio Take Top App Spots Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com Apple has released its annual “Best Of” feature for the iTunes and App Stores, and this year there are some apps at the top of the list that indicate Apple is interested in rewarding apps that … Continue reading Best of Apple App Store 2012
Bits Blog: Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Jeff Hawkins got rich and famous as the brains behind Palm, an early power in mobile data. He has also developed a new model of how we think, which will now be used, he says, to revolutionize the data analysis … Continue reading Jeff Dawkins: Big data applied via cognitive science
What Is 23andMe Really Selling: The Moral Quandary At The Center Of The Personalized Genomics Revolution Steven Kotler, forbes.com This week, 23andme, the personalized genomics company founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, got an influx of investment cash ($50 million). According to their press release, they are using the money to … Continue reading Personal genomic price drop: 23andMe
Is Google’s New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple? Frederick E. Allen, forbes.com Last September when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amazingly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so roundly denounced as a step backward and a weakening of the iPhone environment that chief execut… … Continue reading Why Apple maps debacle was actually a success
Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come December 18th, futurist extraordinaire Ray Kurzweil will be joining Google’s ranks as Director of Engineering to work on projects that involve machine learning and language processing. Specifics regarding those projects, howev… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil's Goal at Google is to enable … Continue reading Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering
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