Evan Parker

On the first time out? Nice! I'm jealous. - Mandi

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

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

"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

"“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

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

"In the past couple of months, nine devices using Google's mobile operating system have been announced" - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"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

No - Jérôme Flipo

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009... - Evan Parker

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

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

Agreed. - Mandi from Android

"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

Google voice number porting begins, at least for lucky reporters like Michael Arrington. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Cool interactive graphics on how different demographics spend their day. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet