Searching – TimBatchelder

Google street view shows dead people

October 11, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

You can use Google Street View to see the dead
Jess Zimmerman, grist.org

Wow, is there nothing Google can’t do? Street View can take you under the ocean, to the surface of Mars, around the South Pole, inside an abandoned Fukushima town, and up some difficult hiking trails. And now, one Oregon man’s experience suggests…

http://flip.it/jfUlz

20 Surreal Images From Google Street View (embargozone.com)
The 34 Most Beautiful Google Street View Sightings (mashable.com)
Build Your Own Google Street View Using An Android Phone Or DSLR Camera (makeuseof.com)
Now Everyone Can Contribute to Google Street View (gizmodo.com)

Sublime Google street view photos

October 3, 2013December 24, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health, Knowledge Management

From spooky to sublime, these Street View pics are hard to forget
by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com

Montreal artist Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes project collects some of the craziest Google Street View images you’ve ever seen.

If you’ve never taken a random walk through Google Street View, the experience can feel like a dream in slow…

http://flip.it/ETWYp

The 34 Most Beautiful Google Street View Sightings (mashable.com)
Build Your Own Google Street View Using An Android Phone Or DSLR Camera (makeuseof.com)
Now Everyone Can Contribute to Google Street View (gizmodo.com)

Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement

September 29, 2013December 24, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

Google is back in the health business with a mysterious new initiative to combat death itself.

Google’s top executives didn’t say much about the biotech venture, called Calico, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that i…

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Google Inc.’s Startup, Calico, Snags Big Biotech Names: Ex-Genentech Exec Top Scientist (biospace.com)
Eric Logan: Students raise a Google Glass to good health | news @ Northeastern (northeastern.edu)
Calico enlists a genetics A-Team for its mysterious anti-aging venture (venturebeat.com)
The Slowing Down or End of Aging? (dontmindmedotnet.wordpress.com)

ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections

September 29, 2013December 24, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection
John Koetsier, venturebeat.com

Google Glass competitor Recon Jet, which bills itself as the Google Glass for athletes and professionals, has secured an investment from Intel Capital.

In perhaps bigger news, the company announced that is has already shipped 50,000…

http://flip.it/x80lA

Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection (venturebeat.com)
Competitors of Google Glass.. (virtual3dtravelresearch.wordpress.com)
Video Shows How Hilariously Awful It Could Be To Wear ‘Microsoft Glass’ (businessinsider.com)

Google just eliminated the market research business

August 21, 2013August 30, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Google just put the market research biz on notice — Tech News and Analysis.

3 Ways the World of Market Research is Evolving (marchpr.com)
Small business tips: How to do market research (theguardian.com)
Eight Ways to Use Facebook for Market Research (nchardz.wordpress.com)
Google Already Takes A Majority Of All Mobile Ad Dollars – Everyone Else Gets Crumbs (GOOG, FB) (businessinsider.com)

Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die

May 18, 2013July 2, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security Privacy

Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google
BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com

Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once you pass away.

After you die, the…

http://flip.it/hISS5

Google’s Response to Glass Privacy Concerns Disappoints Congressman (hngn.com)
Secret warrant used to access WikiLeaks volunteer’s Gmail account (theverge.com)
Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin (arstechnica.com)
New Gmail app adds a touch of color — and frustration – Computerworld (computerworld.com)

Hypnotic time lapse videos

February 4, 2013June 13, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management

Watch: Days Pass In Minutes In These Hypnotic Beach Videos
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

An L.A. artist attempts to capture the passage of time within a single video frame—no drugs needed.

Xárene Eskandar wants you to feel awe.

The Los Angeles media artist, whose past work ranges from tree pods to a Google marriage proposal,…

RT @FastCompany: Watch: Days Pass In Minutes In These Hypnotic Beach Videos http://flip.it/i7Zih http://flip.it/xtEVe

Fast Company Is Seeking A Digital Project Manager (fastcompany.com)
The Unlikely Evolution Of The @ Symbol | Co.Design: business + innovation + design (fastcodesign.com)
Social Media for Artists by @InnovateToday (integratedalliances.com)

Consumer startups and the power of paying

February 4, 2013June 13, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Big Tech: The Power of Paying: What Consumer Hotshots Can Learn From Corporate Drudges
Ryan Tate, wired.com

When choosing a platform API to build upon, paying cash up front can help you avoid paying in time and regret later.

Ryan Tate

The Power of Paying: What Consumer Hotshots Can Learn From Corporate Drudges http://flip.it/mKa4L http://flip.it/sPIOD

Today in APIs: Content Experiments API, SOA Software’s API Lifecycle Manager, and 10 New APIs (programmableweb.com)

The Happiness Machine

January 30, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management

Google Campus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Farhad Manjoo, slate.com

A few years ago, Google’s human resources department noticed a problem: A lot of women were leaving the company. Like the majority of Silicon Valley software firms, Google is staffed mostly by men, and executives have long made it a priority to…

The Happiness Machine http://flip.it/mYVIV http://flip.it/sQE6T

The Happiness Machine

The Google Happiness Machine (breatheoutandsmile.wordpress.com)
How Google became such a great place to work. (slate.com)
Google Tracks Its Own Employees As Closely As It Tracks You On The Internet (businessinsider.com)
How Google obsessively monitors its employees to make sure they’re the happiest in the world (bgr.com)
Google’s employee experiments keep the happiness machine rolling (theverge.com)
The Happiness Machine (slate.com)
Farhad Manjoo: Why “Don’t Be Evil” is evil, and why Google isn’t so bad (nextlevelofnews.com)
The Next Frontier for Peer Production: Open Machine Learning Services (continuations.com)
Marissa Mayer Using Google Charm to Improve Yahoo Culture | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)

Google Analytics For Real Life

January 17, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Google Analytics For Real Life: Tracking Retail Customers Through Smartphones
By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com

A new technology debuting at New York’s National Retail Federation expo lets retailers track in-store customer activity through their smartphones’ MAC addresses.

A new product released at this year’s National Retail Federation expo in New Y…

RT @FastCompany: Google Analytics For Real Life: Tracking Retail Customers Through Smartphones http://flip.it/0XcNH #FastFeed http://flip.it/DI1AS

Infographic: The Periodic Table Of Google Analytics (marketingland.com)
5 things you should know about Google Analytics (firstdigital.co.nz)
Google Analytics – Now in Real Time (pschaecker.wordpress.com)

Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things

January 13, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

In 2011, Berg worked with Google to imagine the service’s manifestation in real life. Here’s the remarkable, working prototype they came up with.

Google is ridiculously powerful. The service isn’t just search. It isn’t just maps. It isn’t j…

RT @PopSci: This is what it would be like if Google wasn’t just in computers, but in the stuff all around us http://flip.it/nxktR Via @fastcodesign http://flip.it/U0IVX

A New Career in a New Town (magicalnihilism.com)
Tweet-Powered Cuckoo Clock – #Flock by Berg Connects to Twitter to Alert Users to Replies and More (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
Ransomware: The cybercrime money machine of 2013 (itproportal.com)
Why I’ve Switched from Google Chrome (lockergnome.com)
From Google And Berg, A Superb Concept For Better Video Chatting (fastcodesign.com)
BERG builds a home videophone for Google with the Connbox prototype (theverge.com)
The Virtual Haircut That Could Change the World (wired.com)

Why Apple, Google and Microsoft are not doomed

December 30, 2012January 3, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Contrary to media frenzies, Apple is not giving up on innovation (it is actually becoming a more efficient, responsible, transparent and happier place to work).

Image via CrunchBase

The Year of Doom For Microsoft, Google and Apple
Haydn Shaughnessy, forbes.com

2012 was the year of the doom merchant in business. In the fantasy world of dying planets earth survived but if you listen to the doom mongers, Microsoft, Apple, Google and a whole lot of other companies are on their death bed.

There a…

RT @ForbesTech: The year of doom for Microsoft, Google and Apple http://flip.it/yhyHD http://flip.it/GQt5g

Microsoft renews plea for crackdown on Google (thehimalayantimes.com)
Microsoft trumps Apple and Google, buys R2 Studios (slashgear.com)
Microsoft Just Bought a Company That’ll Help the Xbox Win Your Living Room (gizmodo.co.uk)
Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone (tech.slashdot.org)
Google Executives Told YouTube Not To Enable A First-class YouTube Experience On Windows Phones (wmpoweruser.com)

Rustic eco chic in the Facebook cafeteria

December 28, 2012January 6, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

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 Masters Behind The Ace Hotel http://flip.it/lEqgK http://flip.it/Htd4b

Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The Masters Behind The Ace Hotel (fastcodesign.com)
The Design Team Roman & Williams Gets Around (nytimes.com)

Get a good Gmail Username

December 28, 2012April 23, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

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

Infographic: The Evolution of Google’s Gmail (moneymakingblog101.wordpress.com)
Latest Google service outage hits Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Drive, (venturebeat.com)

Copyright law on the digital frontier

December 16, 2012April 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security Privacy

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 through the system — which…

RT @verge: Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May http://flip.it/op5xB http://flip.it/F12Dx

Copyright holders target their takedown notices with takedown notices (wired.co.uk)
Using Google Images? Think about copyright permissions (slablogger.typepad.com)
The National Digital Public Library is launched (wired.com)

Google knowledge graph on drugs

December 13, 2012April 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs
by Casey Newton, cnet.com

Google’s evolving database of the relationships between people, places and things gets a new dose of medicine.

Searching for information about medicine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs injected into your search…

http://flip.it/tRy2u

Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)
LoveFlutter Finds Your Match Using Google’s Knowledge Graph (mashable.com)
Google Harnesses Knowledge Graph, Facial Recognition to Give Movie Insight (mashable.com)
Your Brand Needs a Google Knowledge Graph. Here’s How to Get It. (lorirtaylor.com)

Interactive Fractal Tree of Life

October 20, 2012February 25, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History
By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com

A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth.

From protozoans to people, there is a lot of life on this planet, and it’s all connected to a common ancestor from which everything descends…

http://flpbd.it/4RwQh

Fractal mystery (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
Wire Wrapped Tree of Life Tutorial (instructables.com)

How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing

October 7, 2012November 23, 2025 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com

Making my students switch from MS Word to Google Drive not only eliminated the headache of incompatible versions and big email attachments. It’s made them better writers.

When I started teaching college writing and journalism…

http://flpbd.it/uFfgR

How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing

Google Drive – Student ePortfolios (mguhlin.org)
How journalists are using Google+, by @johnpaul (nextlevelofnews.com)
Google Drive now has previews for videos, images, and files (thedroidguy.com)
Tips for a Succesful Google Apps Training Session (freetech4teachers.com)
The Best Ways to Share Information throughout Your Agency (InsuranceFiles.com)
Google Drive gets file previews, Android app now outfitted with video streaming (engadget.com)
Foursquare dumps Google and goes open-source for maps (nextlevelofnews.com)
Five Essential Google Drive Skills For Teachers (freetech4teachers.com)
Horses for courses: Is Google Drive really the best bet for businesses? (intechnology.co.uk)
Editorially: Building a writing tool that embraces the Web (pandodaily.com)

It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit

October 1, 2012November 13, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit
BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com

An ambitious company is attempting to use thermal cameras attached to cars to capture images of how every building in America is wasting energy.

It’s the Google Maps for home efficiency. At the rate of two to three million buildings per mont…

http://flpbd.it/LDbMq

IDB supports energy efficiency program for Bahamian hotels (antiguaobserver.com)
Thousands Of Ohio Businesses To Reap Free Energy Audits (earthtechling.com)
One Clean Planet Offers New Innovative All Natural, Healthy Carpeting that’s Unlike Any Other Product in North America (prweb.com\
Online Tool Helps Your Home Save Energy (earthtechling.com)
Two Wonderful Tools Integrating Twitter in Google Maps (teacherlingo.com)
Give your house an energy audit with your smartphone (smartplanet.com)
New Technology Makes Home Heat Loss Visible (wbur.org)

Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout

September 20, 2012February 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout On Air, 2pm Pacific (5pm Eastern)
By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com

All things food and beverage is the subject of today’s Google Hangout at 2pm PDT (5pm EDT), as MAKE debuts a new bimonthly Hangout on Air. Look for these hangouts to cover the wide world of food and drink from a maker’s point of view.

For…

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SHOWTIME! Watch Ladyada with the President of the USA today at 4:50pm EST #FiresideHangout #SOTU (adafruit.com)
Mumbrella to hold Google Hangout with Nova’s Fitzy & Wippa this afternoon (mumbrella.com.au)
Hangouts in Gmail now available in India (googleindia.blogspot.com)
In a Fireside Hangout on Google+, Obama says we need more patent reform and computer education (adafruit.com)
NASA Schedules Google+ Hangout With Space Station (themoderatevoice.com)
Food Makers Hangout Today: The Underground Food Scene (makezine.com)
State of the union fireside google+ hangout with President Obama on thursday! (google-plus.com)

How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google without going mad

October 10, 2011October 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google with Minimal Fuss.

Apple extends iCloud storage following downgrade glitch (reviews.cnet.com)
How to share documents with iCloud (macworld.com)
Apple Gives Previous MobileMe Users An Extra Year Of iCloud Storage (geeky-gadgets.com)
Apple extends iCloud storage upgrade for MobileMe users another year (engadget.com)
iCloud.com Still Needs Google Maps To Find Your iPhone (AAPL, GOOG) (businessinsider.com)
Do I Need iCloud and iTunes iMatch? (discussions.apple.com)

Fat-wallet and other hot deals sites compared

April 19, 2011February 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Google Wallet Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

One thing I learned when working in e-commerce is that before buying anything online or off you should Google it and see what deals are available at hot deals sites like Fat-wallet. Here is a review of the top deals sites:

http://hot-deals-review.toptenreviews.com

Mobile wallet changes won’t come until incentives do as well (lexingtonlaw.com)
How to find the biggest cashback bonus for anything you buy (reviews.cnet.com)
NewsWatch Highlights Top Deals Website, FatWallet, from the Floor of the Consumer Electronics Show 2013 (prweb.com)
A Simple Tip That Will Save Money With FatWallet & SlickDeals (makeuseof.com)
Mobile credit card options a major focal point for developers (lexingtonlaw.com)
NewsWatch Recently Featured FatWallet.com and Idolian Studio Tablet,… (prweb.com)
Bigger Screens Trending as Best HDTV Deals on FatWallet for Last Minute Big Game Upgrades (virtual-strategy.com)
PayPal destroys Google Wallet, MasterCard, Square, and VISA in digital wallet study (venturebeat.com)
Tech and Clothing Trending as Popular as Traditional Valentine’s Day Gifts at FatWallet (virtual-strategy.com)

Culturomics: hard + soft science using the Ngram viewer

April 13, 2011February 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health

Google 貼牌冰箱（Google Refrigerator） (Photo credit: Aray Chen)

I’ve been playing around with the new Google N Gram viewer and the emerging field of culturomics, the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture. It’s interesting to see that Timothy was more common in 1920 and that information has grown faster than knowledge In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture – NYTimes.com.

Culturomics looks at the birth and death of words (nextlevelofnews.com)
Semantics: Ecohydrology vs. Hydroecology (snowhydro1.wordpress.com)
Digital Signage in the Workplace Trends (themarlincompany.com)

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