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My motel in Cairns, AU has internet at a small computer in the kitchen, and the computer has chrome on it!
Gone surfing. Learned how to spot a wave, catch it, and stand!
On the first time out? Nice! I'm jealous. - Mandi
YouTube - Google Maps Navigation (Beta) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Google Maps Navigation (Beta)
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Huge congrats to Keith Ito for leading this on the eng side and Michael Silisky for leading it on the pm side! - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
The game has changed - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
The game has changed
That's a chart of Garmin and TomTom's stock, overlayed on a picture of the new Google Maps for Android with turn-by-turn voice guided directions, which was announced this morning. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
Google Redefines GPS Navigation Landscape: Google Maps Navigation For Android 2.0 - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Google Redefines GPS Navigation Landscape: Google Maps Navigation For Android 2.0
"If you weren’t sure about switching to an Android phone in the near future, this might put you over the edge. Google Maps Navigation is an absolutely killer app. And it is only available for Android 2.0 phones." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
Motorola Droid gets fully previewed, 'must-have' claims may not be far off - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
The Audacity of ‘Precious’ - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
The Audacity of ‘Precious’ - NYTimes.com
"“Precious,” the harrowing story of a 350-pound illiterate teenage girl who is pregnant for the second time by her father and horribly abused by her mother, is shot in an almost-documentary style interspersed with fantasy sequences. (It opens Nov. 6.) Like most independent films, it is character-driven, and at its heart is a spirit of understanding. When Precious’s plight lands her in a special school, she blossoms: the audience’s initial rejection of Precious, even repulsion at the sight of her, slowly gives way to a kind of identification. At Cannes, the film received a 15-minute standing ovation." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
Alex: the dual-screen Android-based e-book - http://www.springdesign.com/resourc...
Alex: the dual-screen Android-based e-book
iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies
MIT takes the wrappers off autonomous, robotic helicopter with intelligent navigation - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Android 2.0 given a once-over, makes 1.6 look a little dated - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Rethink Afghanistan - good documentary - http://rethinkafghanistan.com/
Rethink Afghanistan - good documentary
Rather one sided, but I think the basic ideas are right: we need to get out of Afghanistan for economic, security, and humanitarian reasons. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
California heats up incentives for solar power - http://www.reuters.com/article...
The Google Android party has begun | CTIA Fall show - CNET Reviews - http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12...
The Google Android party has begun | CTIA Fall show - CNET Reviews
"In the past couple of months, nine devices using Google's mobile operating system have been announced" - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
Google Remaps, Drops Tele Atlas - GPS Review - http://www.gpsreview.net/google-...
"Tele Atlas confirms that Google has decided to stop using Tele Atlas map data for the U.S. Google will now use its own map data. Our relationship with Google for map coverage continues outside of the U.S. in dozens of geographies." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
Notice anything different about Google Maps? :)
A new menu next to locations and a link to the "places" page. An option to narrow by distance for local search. - Ionut
New icons for businesses and places, maybe (I think there were no icon for businesses in Paris before). Some of them have bubbles: business listing for restaurants, bars, hostels (...), Wikipedia articles for places. - Jérôme Flipo
New countries & cities for Street View http://www.zorgloob.com/2009... - Jérôme Flipo
But still no street view in Brighton (UK) :( - Martin Rix (Mrrix32)
Google’s cloud rains on Amazon’s future • The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009...
Google’s cloud rains on Amazon’s future • The Register
CAN A THINKING, REMEMBERING, DECISION-MAKING, BIOLOGICALLY ACCURATE BRAIN BE BUILT FROM A SUPERCOMPUTER? - http://seedmagazine.com/content...
CAN A THINKING, REMEMBERING, DECISION-MAKING, BIOLOGICALLY ACCURATE BRAIN BE BUILT FROM A SUPERCOMPUTER?
Reading friendfeed on a flight to new york. In flight wifi on virgin america is pretty cool.
Official Google Blog: Place Pages for Google Maps: There are places we remember! - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Official Google Blog: Place Pages for Google Maps: There are places we remember!
A particularly cool part of this launch is that we now have canonical, human-readable urls for many place (not all places have them yet), e.g. http://maps.google.com/places.... - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
Google Sidewiki Allows Anyone To Comment About Any Site - http://searchengineland.com/google-...
Google Sidewiki Allows Anyone To Comment About Any Site
Interesting product, but I have to admit I'm skeptical this will be a success unless more social features are added. Being able to see comments from your friends (from twitter, friendfeed, facebook etc) about a page while you are on that page seems quite useful to me (e.g. what if this thread showed up in sidewiki if you happened across the article without seeing this thread first?). But seeing random comments from people I don't know, even if they are good comments, just doesn't seem that compelling to me: many sites already have comment features and I rarely find them useful. Granted there is not much ranking applied to comment features on these sites, maybe that will make a difference. - Evan Parker
xkcd - A Webcomic - Locke and Demosthenes - http://xkcd.com/635/
xkcd - A Webcomic - Locke and Demosthenes
Official Google Blog: Read news fast with Google Fast Flip - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Official Google Blog: Read news fast with Google Fast Flip
Just finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I recommend it: depressing a times, but excellent writing, powerful story.
Agreed. - Mandi from Android
Google Public Policy Blog: Where the smart grid meets the Internet - http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009...
Fwd: Twitter Launches a Geolocation API - http://blog.twitter.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...)
Fwd: Twitter Launches a Geolocation API - http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/location-location-location.html (via http://ff.im/6Ulyo)
Google users search more, very loyal: comScore - http://www.reuters.com/article...
"While Yahoo! Inc and Microsoft Corp lag far behind Google in overall search share, their combined search penetration of 73 percent is not far behind Google, at 84 percent...Yet Google searchers conduct an average of 54.5 searches a month -- about double the number of searches that Yahoo! and Microsoft users conduct combined." Interesting way of looking at search market share data. The reason Google has such a high market share is primarily not b/c more people use Google but b/c users that use Google do more searches on Google relative to users of other search engines. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
How I Learned To Quit The iPhone And Love Google Voice - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
How I Learned To Quit The iPhone And Love Google Voice
How I Learned To Quit The iPhone And Love Google Voice
Google voice number porting begins, at least for lucky reporters like Michael Arrington. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
Google Wave dev preview hands-on and impressions - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Google Wave dev preview hands-on and impressions
How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/...
Cool interactive graphics on how different demographics spend their day. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet
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