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… … Continue reading Google street view shows dead people
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… … Continue reading Sublime Google street view photos
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 … Continue reading Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement
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 Related … Continue reading ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections
Google just put the market research biz on notice — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles 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 - … Continue reading Google just eliminated the market research business
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 … Continue reading Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die
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,… … Continue reading Hypnotic time lapse videos
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 … Continue reading Consumer startups and the power of paying
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 Related articles … Continue reading The Happiness Machine
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 … Continue reading Google Analytics For Real Life
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 … Continue reading Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things
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). 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 … Continue reading Why Apple, Google and Microsoft are not doomed
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
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
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 Related articles Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com) … Continue reading Google knowledge graph on drugs
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 … Continue reading Interactive Fractal Tree of Life
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 Related articles Google Drive - Student ePortfolios … Continue reading How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing
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 … Continue reading It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit
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 … Continue reading Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout
How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google with Minimal Fuss. Related articles 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 … Continue reading How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google without going mad
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 Related articles Mobile wallet changes won't come until incentives do as well (lexingtonlaw.com) … Continue reading Fat-wallet and other hot deals sites compared
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 … Continue reading Culturomics: hard + soft science using the Ngram viewer
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