The Verge | Larry Page wants to 'set aside a part of the world' for unregulated experimentation
He might as well have said “I want to build Rapture. Or Columbia, the name isn’t important.”
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tech, humor, and nuance by David Chartier—tech distiller, freelance writer, Macworld contributor, wrangler of Finer Things in Tech
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At least now I get to scratch “Make a Watchmen reference while lamenting not being able to solve our Excel formula with Google-fu” off the bucket list.
Does anyone know why Google bought Motorola?
The answer is obvious, but it’s a good read just to understand the politics of the situation and the weight of the conundrum Google and Motorola are now in.
“Glass is the future for those who are dissatisfied with the present. If you think a constant stream of information and Internet into your eyeball is going to make your life better, your life will always be lacking.”
Eric Schmidt says consumer version of Google Glass 'probably a year-ish away' | The Verge
Sit somewhere relaxing and take a deep breath.
Open your mind, massage the temples a little.
Now, imagine the mass hysteria—the all-out public pandemonium—that would ensue if Tim Cook said Apple’s Next Big Thing was “a year-ish away.”
Take that, Google: AT&T ups the ante with plans for its own Austin gigabit network — GigaOM
Look kids, Competition! Can you say com-pe-ti-shun? Take a picture. You might need it to last a while until there’s another sighting.
Could someone please check Google's search algorithm out of the repo to investigate why iTunes URLs are supposedly losing rank?
No?
Huh.
Google Keep? It'll probably be with us until March 2017 - on average | guardian.co.uk
Charles Arthur analyzes the numbers on Google’s product graveyard to determine the average lifespan of a doomed product, among other interesting nuggets. He also lays out a chart at the end of all the products that lost their lives in service of The Google, their start date, end date, and lifespan.
For example, Google Notebook—what seems like Keep from a previous life—lasted 2006 days.
And now, a moment of silence for all the Google products that are no longer with us.
Google remains true to its ostensible vision of collecting the world's information and making it universally accessible by releasing Google Keep, its new note-taking Evernote competitor, exclusively on Android
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Tips for Google Reader users migrating to feedly | Building Feedly
Since Google’s taking Reader out back behind the barn in three months, Feedly is one of the alternatives I’m considering. Like every competitor, they’re scrambling to move their sync service away from Google, but to make things easy on yourself you can sign up with your Google Account now and import your feeds. That way you shouldn’t need to lift a finger when Feedly flips the switch away from Google.
Feedly is a different beast in a number of ways, though, so I’m finding articles like this very helpful. Thanks, Tom Reestman.
