Search – Science, Technology, Society

Building a startup still means buying or selling SOMETHING

Posted on April 9, 2013June 21, 2013 by timbatchelder

Startups | The Easiest Path to Online Riches Is Good Ol’ Buying and Selling
Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com

While Google and Facebook might be transformative internet technologies that mint their inventors money, your consumer internet startup is more likely to hit that billion-dollar mark if it’s in the business of digital transactions.

http://flip.it/6o25v

Google Fiber is transforming Kansas City into a startup mecca (bgr.com)
Yahoo’s Past Big Buys Tell a Tale of Mediocrity and Failure (wired.com)
Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream? (Slashdot) (tech.slashdot.org)

Google glass: high tech, low cool

Posted on March 25, 2013June 20, 2013 by timbatchelder

If You Wear Google’s New Glasses You Are An Asshole
Adrian Chen, gawker.com

Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has developed a brilliantly concise definition of an asshole: “A person who demands that all social interaction happen on their terms.” He was inspired by the assholes who talk in Amtrak’s quiet car, but thi…

RT @core77: A rather vitriolic argument against Google Glass – http://flip.it/o3t9Z http://flip.it/7NPfP

No, You Can’t Borrow My Google Glass (wearablecomputingreview.com)
LED light let Google glasses get rid of “invasion of privacy” suspect (lsdfloodlightblog.wordpress.com)
Google Glass is Orwellian, ridiculous, and ‘destroys people,’ Noam Chomsky says (venturebeat.com)
Google Glass- Will it last? (rheasil.wordpress.com)

Google designers tasked to revamp search experience

Posted on December 28, 2012January 6, 2013 by timbatchelder

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…

RT @core77: “How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search” – http://flip.it/uvZlH http://flip.it/fydSg

How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search (fastcodesign.com)
You: How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search – Co.Design (designingdesignthinkingdrivenoperations.wordpress.com)

Google+ Goes Looking For Love

Posted on October 7, 2012February 23, 2013 by timbatchelder

Google+ Goes Looking For Love
By Andy Meek, fastcompany.com

Instead of going for the billion-user benchmark recently set by social titan Facebook, Google+ is trying to harness emotion, says Google’s Vic Gundotra.

An interview with Google’s senior vice president for engineering, Vic Gundotra, about…

http://flpbd.it/oOkme

Nexus phones to feature ‘insanely great cameras’ says Google’s Vic Gundotra (recombu.com)
Google’s Vic Gundotra promises insanely great cameras on upcoming Nexus phones (9to5google.com)
The Cassandra Memorandum: Google in 2013 (seomoz.org)
Google’s Vic Gundotra: Future Nexus phones will have ‘insanely great cameras’ (venturebeat.com)
Google’s Vic Gundotra teases Nexus phones with ‘insanely great cameras’ (pocket-lint.com)
Google Toils to Bring Awesome Cameras to Nexus Devices (devicemag.com)

Mac OSX Spotlight as a file management tool

Posted on March 23, 2011August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder

Apple OS X Mountain Lion (Photo credit: Kansir)

Spotlight (software) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

a great search tool. The new emphasis on text mining of unstructured files means you can just put all your files into one large folder and then with good tagging and search find them more quickly than if they are meticulously categorized

Text Analysis and Text Mining Are Powerful Tools (arnoldit.com)
SemanticWeb.com “Innovation Spotlight” Interview with Elliot Turner, CEO of AlchemyAPI. (semanticweb.com)
Introducing SemanticWeb.com “Innovation Spotlight” Series with Pingar (semanticweb.com)
Editors’ Choice: Where to start with text mining (digitalhumanitiesnow.org)
Cloud Based Angle for Clinical Trial Text Mining (arnoldit.com)
Mountain Lion’s New File System (informationarchitects.net)
Mac 101: Use Spotlight for quick review of Calendar events (tuaw.com)
Mac OS 10.8.1 Mountain Lion released, fixes issues in Thunderbolt, Exchange, Migration assistant, iMessages and more (9to5mac.com)

Blogdigger: how to make sure your blog shows up on search

Posted on August 23, 2010August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder

Blogdigger : Blog Search Engine – Search Blogs.

Be sure to confirm your blogs are up to date on them. See also day pop, live journal, slashdot, naymz, ziggs, findmeon, claimID, naggist, goloco.org, geni

Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search (firstdigital.co.nz)
Ping and Distribution Sites I use : BlogBuzzer (elaineossipov.wordpress.com)
tgapp-smallpress 0.3.3 (pypi.python.org)
Google’s Blog Search (beanstalk-inc.com)
How to Search for Free Images for Your Blog (ageofthediary.wordpress.com)
Using Google search to remember what you wrote (vielmetti.typepad.com)
So You Want to Start a Blog: Tactical Tips for Making it Work (upandrunning.bplans.com)
Google Algorithm Changes: Seriously, Is Google Not Sharing Them Anymore? (webpronews.com)

Crowd-sourcing science: Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure

Posted on May 17, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

This guy has the money and the brains to turn the hypothesis testing scientific method on its head and speed up our currently extremely expensive and slow drug discovery process using the power of the Internet to analyze massive data sets and look for patterns.

Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure | Wired Magazine | Wired.com.

Sergey Brin rides the NYC subway like a Google boss (theverge.com)
Sergey Brin sports Google Glasses on NY subway (thenewsroom.co.uk)
Sergey Brin tests high-tech Google Glass on subway (theweek.co.uk)
Sergey Brin tests Google Glass on New York subway (guardian.co.uk)
Sergey Brin Takes His Google Goggles For a New York City Subway Spin (allthingsd.com)
Sergey Brin, Google: Web freedom faces greatest threat ever. ‘It’s scary.’ (nextlevelofnews.com)
An Awesome Photo Of Google Founder Sergey Brin Riding The New York Subway Wearing Google Glasses And A Beanie Hat (businessinsider.com)
Was That Sergey Brin Wearing Google Glasses in the New York Subway? (abcnews.go.com)
Spotted: Sergey Brin wearing Google Glass specs as he blends in on NYC subway (thenextweb.com)
Google Glass and Sergey Brin ride the New York subway – Brisbane Times (brisbanetimes.com.au)

Search engine and human edited web directory KartOO

Posted on May 9, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

Search engine and human edited web directory KartOO.

Web Directories And SEO (raventools.com)
Web Directory Submission Danger: Analysis of 2,678 Directories Shows 20% Penalized/Banned by Google (seomoz.org)
VMOptions Web Directory Gets Local with SEO Citations (prweb.com)
NZ Exporters Lost In The Web (firstdigital.co.nz)

Dogpile Web Search indicates paid listings

Posted on May 9, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

Indicates whether it is a paid listing in search results

Dogpile Web Search.

Dogpile Enhances Meta Search, Offers Comparison Tools (firstdigital.co.nz)
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge (firstdigital.co.nz)
Toolbar Heaven (firstdigital.co.nz)
Google Quietly Launch Financial Comparison Affiliate Ads (epiphanysearch.co.uk)

Jiffle | Scheduling Made Simple

Posted on August 28, 2008August 28, 2012 by timbatchelder

Liquid schedule (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Image representing jiffle as depicted in Crunc... — Image via CrunchBase

Welcome to Jiffle | Scheduling Made Simple | Home.

This interesting site adds availability from your Google calendar to your site or email so that people can see when you are available to schedule meetings etc.