Great, so we're slowly replacing a distributed communication medium owned by no one with a centralised communication medium owned by Mark Z, well there's progress for you.
- Paul James
Google asked people in Times Square: What is a browser? The responses will shock you.
- Paul James
great reality check Paul... it seems people don't have a concept of "applications" or maybe even programs. You just turn on your computer and go to the internet, or even just Google. Interesting that more people seeem to understand the term "search engine"...
- Tim Ostler
from BuddyFeed
Thanks for the edit G. but if you'd clicked the "more" link in the edit form you could have moved the marker yourself. It is a little strange that there are two places so close with the same name, anyone from the area know why?
- Paul James
People always fear groundbreaking technology at first, in 10 years time the same people will wonder how they got on without Google street view.
- Paul James
At last! A miracle the privacy paranoiacs didn't stop this happening
- Tim Ostler
Shame that the coverage is only the major metropolitan areas, but still very cool none the less. Wish I'd known when the Google car was coming by, I'd have put a sign up in my window for them.
- Paul James
Yes, they told the Ozzies when the Google Earth plane was flying by and they were able to do all sorts of high jinks..
- Tim Ostler
We went to Banstead Woods yesterday just to get out of the city for a while with the weather being so nice. They have the most confusing path markers causing us to get a bit lost but also leading us to see a stoat/weasel. No idea which one he was, curious little fellow however.
- Paul James
The more I learn about Twitter, the more and more it looks like a re-implementation of IRC on the Web. Most of these problems have been solved in the IRC protocol for 20+ years, maybe Twitter can learn from it?
- Paul James
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
- Paul James