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Mar 09

Google PowerMeter

You can’t fix what you don’t measure, and no one measures their electricity use. I am pretty excited about Google’s new PowerMeter project.

Most people don’t know how much electricity their appliances use, where in the house they are wasting electricity, or how much the bill might go up during different seasons. But in a world where everyone had a detailed understanding of their home energy use, we could find all sorts of ways to save energy and lower electricity bills. In fact,studies show that access to home energy information results in savings between 5-15% on monthly electricity bills.

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Very cool. I hope it will be available here.

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22
Jan 09

Google Reader & RSS

Google Reader for Beginners:

And a great “what is rss” video repost:

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30
Nov 08

Speak Google, Speak!

Google’s recent update on their iPhone app now allows smooth, reliable speech recognition.

Just hold the phone to your ear, wait for the beep, and say what you’re looking for. That’s it. Just talk. Once the App is on, you don’t have to push any buttons to search. [...] And if you’re doing a local search, there’s no need to specify where you are because Google Mobile App now has Search with My Location. Search for “movie showtimes” or “Mediterranean restaurant” and you’ll automatically see results based on your current location.

All made possible by the iPhone’s built in GPS, accelerometer, and proximity sensors. As Tim O’Reilly astutely points out:

Future applications will surprise us by using them in new ways, and in new combinations; future devices will provide richer and richer arrays of senses (yes, senses, not just sensors) for paying attention to what we want.

 

 

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23
Nov 08

Google Predicts the Flu

Google Flu Trends is pretty darn cool:

We’ve found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than traditional systems.

 

 

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28
Aug 08

Trying stuff is cheaper than deciding whether to try it

LinuxWorld says:

Google is one of the few large companies that gets one fundamental rule of the Internet: Trying stuff is cheaper than deciding whether to try it. (Compare the cost of paying and feeding someone to do a few weeks of P* hacking to the full cost of the meetings that went into a big company decision.)

Don’t overplan something. Just do it half-assed to start with, then throw more people at it to fix it if it works. Worked for every successful Google project from AdWords to Google Maps.

[via Kottke]

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