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Jan 10

Google Nexus One

There have been plenty of articles written about Google’s Nexus One. This offhanded comment from the Macalope pretty much sums up my feelings:

“The Nexus One seems like a nice enough phone, but it’s nothing revolutionary (it’s got a trackball, for God’s sake). Everyone is still operating inside the same box that Apple defined three years ago.”

On one hand, I’m glad to see some competition for Apple. But I don’t know that most consumers can see what’s happening: Google is playing the Microsoft game. Copy Apple as closely as possible and as quickly as possible. Android will always be a second-rate smartphone (or super-smartphone).

Google’s Android phone operating system will rearrange the icons, change the colors, and maybe even do a couple unexpected things. But the genius at Apple is already working on the next big thing – not trying to copy their competitors.

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Dec 09

Automatic Captioning and Translating

This is another one of those things that falls into the I-Don’t-Think-We-Appreciate-The-Importance-Of-This category…  Google’s Automatic Captioning in YouTube:

“In addition to expanded accessibility for those with hearing disabilities, the combination of captions withmachine translation expands YouTube accessibility across the globe. If a caption track is available, it can be translated automatically in any of the 51 currently available languages. As a result, video content otherwise not accessible due to a language barrier can now be understood by a significantly larger user population.”

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15
Nov 09

Filter by Visited Pages

Just discovered that you can filter your Google search results by pages you have previously visited. Cool!

Next time you search, click on “Show Options” and then “Visited pages”. Be sure to also check out the very currious Wonder Wheel too!

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16
Oct 09

Google Flu Trends

Just a friendly reminder about Google’s pretty darn cool flu trend site.

According to my notes from last year, they predicted trends two weeks earlier than the doctors. This year, they’re simply calling it “near real-time”.

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26
Aug 09

Relax into Productivity

In Grown Up Digital, Effie Seiberg was interviewed on the culture at Google:

“Unlike in the corporate world, no one thinks twice if you IM with your friends in the middle of the day or go out to play volleyball at two. The culture is designed to help employees relax into productivity, not stress into it. . . . To me this seems, well, logical.”

What a simple, brilliant idea. We’re so busy stressing about goals, metrics, deadlines, and doing things the corporate way, that we forget: people are most productive when they can relax at work.

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