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Google street view shows dead people

Posted on October 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

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…

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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

Posted on October 3, 2013 by timbatchelder

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…

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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

Posted on September 29, 2013 by timbatchelder

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

Posted on September 29, 2013 by timbatchelder

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…

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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

Posted on August 21, 2013 by timbatchelder

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

Posted on May 18, 2013 by timbatchelder

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…

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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)

Consumer startups and the power of paying

Posted on February 4, 2013 by timbatchelder

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

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

The Happiness Machine

Posted on January 30, 2013 by timbatchelder

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

Posted on January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder

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…

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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

Posted on January 13, 2013 by timbatchelder

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

Posted on December 30, 2012 by timbatchelder

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…

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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)

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