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Posts tagged Google
I just want to say that I can’t wait for Apple to hit Google with a patent infringement, IP infringement and antitrust lawsuit all at once. Oh, and someone should also sue Google for not releasing Honeycomb’s source code too.
I’m all in.
Android Is As Open As The Clenched Fist I’d Like To Punch The Carriers With
Here’s another good example why Android sucks and iPhone rules. Not because of Google, but maily because of the carriers who are trying to get back with their lock down ecosystems using the openness of Android.
They may not have the full library of fonts like TypeKit, but at least you can play with some and include them in your site for free. The library will certainly grow with time.
Another free API product from Google.
Google Chrome Speed Tests
The most kick-ass promotional video Google would have EVER made. Period.
51 takes to have the potato in front of the monitor the right way!
You can watch the behind the scene video here. A bit more boring as all the other Google videos, but still pretty interesting.
Our job is to basically change the engines on a plane that is flying at 1,000 kilometers an hour, 30,000 feet above Earth
A good article to give you a glimpse of what the guys behind the biggest search engine are doing to keep the results revelant to your queries.
Google Buzz is like FriendFeed, the social aggregator acquired by Facebook last year and now partially integrated in the Facebook news feed. Actually Google Buzz is exactly like FriendFeed at the difference it is integrated in the most used Webapp of all time: Webmail.
Like Friendfeed you can integrate your other social activities (Twitter, Picasa, Flikr Youtube, Reader, and any other RSS output like your blog). Your Followers can comment on each of your buzz and you received the notification by email. As Buzz is fully integrated to Gmail, you can comment back directly from your inbox. Again like FriendFeed, you can comment and like any buzz, including the ones that are from external sources.
Being fully integrated to Gmail is a double-edged sword, on one side you get an instant fellowship, but on the other side the people who does not have a Gmail account need to follow you on your ugly profile page.
Friendfeed was used only by a bunch of geeks and never had the attention it deserves by the general population to grow beyond its borders. Everyone I knew around me (as early adopter) had a Friendfeed account, but was never using it to track their friends online contributions. And then Friendfeed got acquired by Facebook, making it easier for everyone to integrate their social activities in their Facebook news feed.
The problem I have with Google Buzz is the same I had with FriendFeed. As you are able to aggregate your social activities from other sources, it just becomes another access point to get in touch with my friends. I’m able to follow my friends favourite posts in Google Reader, but they are also integrated in Facebook through FriendFeed and probably push to Twitter by the same service and integrated here in Google Buzz where I follow that same person status that also includes his Twitter account entries. But I follow also that same person Tweets in my Tumblr dashboard. In no time I get bombarded and oversaturated with the same information on different platforms.
What I predict is that, over time, when the buzz will vanish, people will hide the Google Buzz label to follow their friends activity on a single social platform: Facebook, where at least you can filter and curate the duplicate posts from the different sources.
Google will adapt the product to its users base with time like they did with Google Reader and I’m sure a second look could be given at this point.
Along with opening up Docs to additional file types, Google is also dramatically increasing the size of individual uploads. Where the company will still limit users to 500KB for Microsoft Word documents, and 10MB for PowerPoint presentations and PDFs, the new limit for all other files that cannot be converted into a Google Docs format is 250MB. This is 10 times the size of what’s allowed as an attachment in the company’s Web mail service Gmail.
Not sure I will trust Google as my only source of backup, but it is certainly a move in the right direction to open the platform to other types of media.
Google Search “Near Me Now” Mobile Feature
Lame video, but what a great idea.
Google Browser Size - Latest release of Google labs
Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google, or any other site where the content is principally aligned top-left (so not like mine here).
It is still a basic tool that can merely only be used on Google, as what users are seeing (or at least what grabbing their attention first) in a page depends greatly of its content, its density, positions, heading sizes, use of images, icons, etc.
I’m enthusiast to see future development of this tool as it can really help all of us (interaction designers) explaining quickly to a client what users are seeing or not depending of user screen resolution and browser size.
Loneliest number - Google
Many have already seen this, but it is so cute, that I cannot not reblog it.
(via David)
Google Live Search
Finally got a glimpse of the live search indexing in Google web search. Pretty damn well done.
