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All Things Google

Google news, apps, features, and easter eggs. Everything related to Google (the company and its products)
LANjackal
Anterpreet Singh
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Archos makes new Android-powered Internet Tablet official « Boy Genius Report 8GB $249 500GB $439 #android #mobile via @nverdo - http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009...
Archos makes new Android-powered Internet Tablet official « Boy Genius Report 8GB $249 500GB $439 #android #mobile via @nverdo
" * HD video support (H.264, WMV, Mpeg-4 up to 720P) * Archos AppsLib store with Archos 5-compatible Android applications * Micro SD Slot (SDHC compatible) * Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n) * GPS with 3D Maps * Bluetooth 2.0 (mobile phone tethering capable) * FM transmitter and FM receiver (RDS) * Built-in speaker, microphone and leg stand * support for a wide variety of audio/video codecs and image formats * additional functionality available via optional accessories (DVR-Station, HDMI Mini-Dock, GPS In-Car Holder, etc) * Pre-installed Android applications include DroidIn, Ebuddy IM, Twidroid, QuickPedia, and more * Flash 10 support expected with Android 2.0 in Q1 2010 * 22 hours of Music playback time and 7 hours of Video playback with standard Lithium polymer battery " - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
"Google is trying not to be creepy. That's according to CEO Eric Schmidt, who told Fox Business Thursday that "we're trying not to cross what we call the creepy line" when it comes to the data it gathers. As an example, Schmidt said Google only publishes satellite data that is a month old, indicating that Google would consider it creepy to publish real-time satellite data. Google is quite used to facing charges that it has become a little too Big Brotherish in its conquest of the Internet search market. In response, it emphasizes that Google users have control over the data the company collects on them, most recently introducing Google Dashboard as a way of letting users see all the personal data the company has assembled in a single Web page. That will likely never be enough to satisfy the hardcore privacy advocates of the world, but the general public--and the government--are also starting to get a little uneasy about Google's unparalleled reach across the Internet. In the... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet
Real time satellite photos would be cool, though. I don't mind the creepiness! - Vezquex: God of FF
haha. I don't mind creepiness either. I have an open information philosophy. I actually wish that Google would allow me the publish as much as possible - so I can do my own lifechart easier. API everything please! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
polou/indigo_bow
Google Sesame Street Logos: Wow, Google Really Likes Muppets! - http://mashable.com/2009...
Google Sesame Street Logos: Wow, Google Really Likes Muppets!
more muppets wow the love continues - polou/indigo_bow from Bookmarklet
Mmmm gay muppets! - Sparky Crocker
Hey @ least they taught ABCs - polou/indigo_bow
polou/indigo_bow
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
sofarsoShawn
'Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line' when it comes to the data it gathers.' | Except they've sprinted wayyy past that line by now to disturbingly ominous - http://news.cnet.com/8301-30...
'Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line' when it comes to the data it gathers.' | Except they've sprinted wayyy past that line by now to disturbingly ominous
"Google is trying not to be creepy. That's according to CEO Eric Schmidt, who told Fox Business Thursday that "we're trying not to cross what we call the creepy line" when it comes to the data it gathers. As an example, Schmidt said Google only publishes satellite data that is a month old, indicating that Google would consider it creepy to publish real-time satellite data. Google is quite used to facing charges that it has become a little too Big Brotherish in its conquest of the Internet search market. In response, it emphasizes that Google users have control over the data the company collects on them, most recently introducing Google Dashboard as a way of letting users see all the personal data the company has assembled in a single Web page. That will likely never be enough to satisfy the hardcore privacy advocates of the world, but the general public--and the government--are also starting to get a little uneasy about Google's unparalleled reach across the Internet. In the... more... - sofarsoShawn
Srikanth AD
LANjackal
Announcing the retirement of my Canon SD1100 IS. The Droid is my new party camera, one less gadget to tote around when I'm out :)
Oğuz Serdar
Marissa Mayer: The Visionary: Women of the Year: glamour.com - http://www.glamour.com/women-o...
Marissa Mayer: The Visionary: Women of the Year: glamour.com
"She is a Woman of the Year because: “She has been a powerhouse of creativity and business acumen for one of the world’s most innovative companies. Marissa Mayer is leading the way in keeping America number one.” —Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and 2002 Woman of the Year" - Oğuz Serdar from Bookmarklet
anyway, I can't remember this >> http://www.youtube.com/watch... :) - Oğuz Serdar
Is she the one that the stolen internal Twitter documents flamed the hell out of? - Matthew DeVries
The winner of the strangest FF search for her http://friendfeed.com/wiredry... - Matthew DeVries
omg.. :)) lol ! - Oğuz Serdar
she also did swallowed some red gum? - Burçak Çubukçu
:)) - Oğuz Serdar from Android
Bu kadını 2 defa canlı izleme fırsatım oldu. Gerçekten etkileyicidir. - M. Serdar Kuzuloglu
Ben bu kadının ön plana çıkmasını bizdeki spor medyasının yaptığı gibi kadınlarla ilgiyi arttırma çabası olarak görüyorum. Güzel görünmeye çalışmak - Fatih Hayrioğlu
Mayer, Google'ın birçok stratejisindeki beyin rolünü üstleniyor. Şirketin Başkan Yardımcısı ve en eski personellerinden biri. Ha, afet mi? Evet. Ama bu durumda kesinlikle ikinci planda. Diğer başkan yardımcılarını neden tanımıyoruz derseniz işte bu yüzden. - M. Serdar Kuzuloglu
Bana şöyle ters geliyor durum. Mesela Windows yeni işletim sistemi çıkardığında Bill Gates şimdilerde Steve Ballmer çıkıyor tanıtıyor veya Apple yeni bir şey çıkaracak ise Steve Jobs çıkıyor tanıtıyor ama Google da ise bu ablayı görüyorum her zaman - Fatih Hayrioğlu
Fatih bende de aynı etkiyi yaratıyordu başlarda ama sonradan fikrim değişti. Google kültürünü aslında en iyi yansıtan insanlardan biri Mayer. Eskiden bu kadar ağır giyinmiyordu, yaş ilerleyince böyle oluyor sanırım sonuç. - Burcu Dogan
★ Soner Gönül
Vay be. Bu çok güzel bir şeymiş. Herkese lazım bence sık kullanılanlara ekleyin. - Yusufsan21
Keşke özgür formatlarda da arasaydı. - Yusufsan21
LANjackal
Recommend me some good Android-related blogs. Ready? GO!
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TIA - LANjackal
I don't know about blog, but there's a StackOverflow-esque Q&A site for just Android here: http://www.forceclose.com/ - Maxamad (Amazigh)
Let me know if you find any more, but above are the ones I have in Google Reader ... - Kevin Mohr
Here is a twitter-list about android: http://twitter.com/marking... would you help me to let it grow? send a recommendation to @markingegno or leave it here. Thanks. - Markingegno - Donato
Thanks for all of the above, I subscribed to quite a few. Big shoutout to Kevin Mohr who's been stumping for Android since I first saw him online - LANjackal
LANjackal
Does anyone know the name of the charity that donates unwanted cellphones to abused women who need an emergency line? I wanna donate my old Samsung that my Droid replaced. Thanks :)
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End violence against women! - LANjackal
Try contacting your local shelter or an abuse support group. If the program doesn't exist, you could be the one to start it in your area! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Hmmm I'll see what I can do, the local shelter is actually in dire straits, there was a newspaper article about it this week :/ - LANjackal
ffcode
so what do you use for downloading youtube videos and mp3?????? i use http://keepvid.com/ for videos and http://vidtomp3.com/ for mp3s
use download helper plug in for all - Странник
@Странник me too, but the last version doesen't seem to work properly, it cause the bloking of flash sometime.. - fakedave
JA Castillo
Rich
Want contacts in Wave? Reply to this with your email address. If no @gmail.com, then we'll assume gmail to save clutter.
I'm rich.bradshaw - Rich
Rich: can you please invite me for google wave pleae - Sunny (The Geek Lord)
ericloganvanman - Eric Logan
Can anyone send me an invite for wave email : saysunnykapoor@gmail.com ...I will be grateful - Sunny (The Geek Lord)
jokin.lacalle - Jokin Lacalle
bluezzwang - ThenWang
sourdrums - Jeremy˚H
This isn't for invites, it's for people already using... - Rich
skitcherboy - Ahmed
neuro159 - Alexey Gopachenko
kmohr25 - Kevin Mohr
LOL. Because who doesn't have Gmail? I do. LOL. But still no Wave invite. I asked one like, ever ago. LOL. - Zachary TG
igrigorik -- ;-) - Ilya Grigorik
jckchrstphr - Jack Christopher
bansode - Gaurav Bansode
cabvolt - sean808080
please send a wave invite someone to - javadi82@gmail.com - will be very greatful! - Space Cowboy
Rich, lots here: http://ff.im/91NZC - Kol Tregaskes
Edwin
How long does it normally take to recieve an Goolge Wave invite in your mailbox? Someone sent me an invite on the 1st of november. I can't wait!! :D
4-5 days is what I have seen. - Brian Sullivan
Thanks! I just have to wait till the end of the week then. - Edwin
I am awaiting mine also and I think I got word that is was sent on Friday - Kirk Fontaine
it took mine about 5 days to get to me - Ninja Monkey!!
The invites I sent out took 4 days. - Robert Freeze
LANjackal
Sounds like I have been approved in the office! :-) - manielse (Mark Nielsen)
tempted...but tied to iPhone contract...Android 2.0 is def looking better - brainno722 (Peter)
I really think I'll be getting one, but I think it's smart to wait for independent reviews. It's gotta at least be better than the Storm 2 for me to bite - LANjackal
is it really true according to BillShrink.com...that there are over 10k apps in Android market? - brainno722 (Peter)
I'm seriously considering picking up a non-phone Android 2.0 device when they come out. The android platform is evolving rapidly and I'm excited to follow along. - Sparky Crocker
brainno: 20k+ is more like it, actually - LANjackal from IM
One of the reasons we switched from VZW to TMO was that we could get the same functionality on our Treos for about 1/3 the price (VZW's data plan was $45/mo.). Android 2.0 looks great, but not great enough to go back. - John Craft
I'd love to grab a Droid, but I'll likely wait a bit (just got a new phone). - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Peter, I haven't counted ;) , but I've seen that number many places. - John Craft
I'm not sure that the number of apps is a good indicator, anyway, given that games and wallpapers get counted as apps. I use the Weather channel app, an FTP client, several Google Maps add-ons, Twidroid, a file manager, a stopwatch, subway maps, OpenTable, and of course the Flashlight. - John Craft
John: I won't lie, VZ's expensive. The only reason I can afford their unlimited service is via a corporate discount. The good thing about them is the predictable bill, unlike some carriers (I'm looking at you, AT&T) and amazing coverage. You'd have to be on the moon to not get a VZ signal - LANjackal from IM
price is a big factor for me...but i don't like iPhone's closed OS...i hope Android is more open...and yeah...VZ is also expensive...T-Mob is going to gain popularity from pricing...too bad they don't have good reception in my area... - brainno722 (Peter)
VZ's MO is QoS >>>> everything else. Including, unfortunately, features and handsets. Until next week :). But then again before the iPhone AT&T's handset offerings were nothing special either - LANjackal from IM
yeah I was using Sprint cuz of their sleak Samsung phone...then iPhone came out and I drooled...still waiting for a driving factor to switch out of iPhone though... - brainno722 (Peter)
"You'd have to be on the moon to not get a VZ signal" - I'll give you that. TMO was pretty deficient in even providing a signal in a lot of rural areas. I was pleasantly surprised in September to be out in rural Michigan and get full 3G in places where before my G1 was a paperweight. - John Craft
most definitely - Jason Kintzler
I really like the HTC Hero, but not the DROID so much - Shevonne
If the UI is smooth, I'll get it. If not, I may wait for the other Verizon Android phone from HTC. - Tony C
It looks really good, but I'll wait and see how much people like it. - SmallCapVoice
i don't get touch-phones with a keyboard...i know ppl are still getting used to it, but wouldn't 20+ million iphone users show that it's not that hard to learn? touch+keyboard just makes the phone bulky... - brainno722 (Peter)
One of the nice things about a physical keyboard is that you don't use up screen real estate displaying one :) - LANjackal from IM
touche; still, i wish there's a way to be best of both worlds: sleak and sexy - brainno722 (Peter)
getting it as my work phone as soon as i am upgrade eligible again - Isaac Zahavi
JUST GOT MINE. Anyone else? - LANjackal
Congrats LAN, look forward to reading the joys of using it. - Travis Koger
Thanks, it's a fantastic device thus far. Love the push Gmail and automatic mail syncing :) - LANjackal
how is the video and picture taking options? Also, surfing the net and battery life? - Amani from IM
I'm at work now and I'm about to enter a webinar and get some other stuff done. I'll find out more about all of the above as I play with it over the weekend - LANjackal
I should have mine in hand by Monday or Tuesday it sounds... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Y the delay? - LANjackal from IM
Will w8 for HTC :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Holden Page
Google Wave Notifier makes Waving a little less painful - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Google Wave Notifier makes Waving a little less painful
I'm uncomfortable that it asks for email password. Can it use OAuth? - Ted Gilchrist
It uses your Google Account, so if you've signed in once, you shouldn't have to sign in again. Wave also enforces the use of HTTP-over-TLS for both authentication, and sessions themselves. - Tyson Key
Barring the need to manually perform a refresh, after supplying your credentials, it seems to work as advertised. - Tyson Key
Sadly, it seems that you can't click on a named Wave to view it... - Tyson Key
wuw ((: ı like it - Rıza Selçuk Saydam
Martin Bryant
"If you haven’t seen it yet, grab a cup of coffee put your feet up and gasp in awe as you flick through a massive Google Doc packed with the ways people have used Youtube, Google Maps and other tools to create amazing new web apps." - Martin Bryant from Bookmarklet
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Derek van Vliet
Google Open Sources Set Of Closure Tools It Uses To Build Its Own Apps - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Google Open Sources Set Of Closure Tools It Uses To Build Its Own Apps
Srikanth AD
I have been using clusty which seems to be as good as google is. - TrafficBug
Eric Logan
Google's announcement last week that it would offer free turn-by-turn navigation software prompted a nosedive in the stocks of Garmin and other navigation device makers. The jolt was just the latest such disruption caused by Google since its founding in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. During that time the company has grown into a $22 billion behemoth—yet, remarkably, it is still in the early stages of a long growth phase. Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and chief executive, expects that one day it will be a $100 billion enterprise. Being the gatekeeper for the world's information turns out to be a lucrative business, especially without the expense of creating any of it. In "Googled," New Yorker writer Ken Auletta tells the familiar story of the company's rapid transformation from Silicon Valley start-up to global corporation. As expected, we hear about the young Rollerblading employees at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, with its massage rooms, pool tables and free... more... - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet
Derek van Vliet
Official Google Blog: Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard! - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
polou/indigo_bow
Judge In Google Book Settlement Case Says Photographers Are Not Authors - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Judge In Google Book Settlement Case Says Photographers Are Not Authors
Judge Denny Chin basically ruled that photographers are not authors, and that the settlement only covers “word-based material,” with the exception of illustrations in children’s books. - polou/indigo_bow from Bookmarklet
So what is photographer place now? Nothing? No one? - polou/indigo_bow
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