Tom Stocky

You can try it out at http://www.google.com/dashboa... - Tom Stocky

"I do believe that you can achieve more if you're willing to take risks," Lars said in a recent phone interview. "There's almost a total correlation between the amount of risk you're willing to take and then the amount of stuff you then potentially can get done." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

Also geniuses behind Google Maps. - Burcu Dogan

"In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Brin family’s immigration to the United States, they have given gifts to several Jewish organizations that aided along the way. HIAS, which helped the family navigate the cumbersome process of leaving the Soviet Union for the United States, paid for tickets, gave them money and helped them apply for visas, received the largest amount." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

Sergey's blog post on the subject: http://too.blogspot.com/2009... - Tom Stocky

"You don’t spread ideas just because they are 'good;' you spread them because of some other trigger or set of triggers has been pulled in your brain. We can now compare millions of viral ideas to uncover the building blocks of contagiousness." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

"It starts very simply. A virus, just one, latches on to one of your cells and fools that cell into making lots more. Lots, lots more, like a million new viruses. This animation shows you how viruses trick healthy cells to join the dark side." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

"We know we can’t do it alone. The way we see it, it’s our job to build the technology not just to help our users explore the world around them, but to enable them to contribute to it, and for others to build upon it." - Avni Shah - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

I saw an ad for this on TV last night ... I can't believe it actually exists. You can choose between "determined" and "happy" options. - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

amazing. how do people even think of these things? and who buys them??? - Sheila Taylor

"And now in this the twentieth century come these talking and playing machines and offer again to reduce the expression of music to a mathematical system of megaphones, wheels, cogs, disks, cylinders, and all manner of revolving things which are as like real art as the marble statue of Eve is like her beautiful living breathing daughters." - John Philip Sousa, 1906 - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

Sadness. The Angels swept the Sox. Those 3 runs in the 9th were the first-ever scored against Papelbon in the postseason -- 27 scoreless innings until that point. - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

"Others have questioned the impact of the agreement on competition, or asserted that it would limit consumer choice with respect to out-of-print books. In reality, nothing in this agreement precludes any other company or organization from pursuing their own similar effort. The agreement limits consumer choice in out-of-print books about as much as it limits consumer choice in unicorns. Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice — fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

"A few of us at Google created WhatBrowser.org to help teach people about web browsers. We wanted to show people that they have a lot of choice in browsers, since we noticed that most people were using the browser their computers came with." - Tom Stocky

Considering how much time people spend in the browser, the choice of which one to use is becoming increasingly important. But it seems like we need to do a better job educating our less technical friends -- most people don't realize there's a choice to make. - Tom Stocky

"Less than 8% of people who were interviewed on this day knew what a browser was." - Tom Stocky

Pretty soon, the answer, "Google" will be a legitimate answer to the browser question. If they play their cards right with Chrome. - April Buchheit

"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." More info on how it works at http://www.google.org/flutren... - Tom Stocky

"It's now official: The country has lost more jobs as a percentage of peak employment than any time since the Great Depression." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

IS, who is being naive? - Cristo

"The paint contains an aluminium-iron oxide which resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi - or other radio waves - meaning the airborne data is absorbed and blocked. By coating an entire room, signals can't get in and, crucially, can't get out. Developed at the University of Tokyo, the paint could cost as little as £10 per kilogram, researchers say." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

I must have used that paint in my last house without knowing it! - Lou Paglia

"A Place Page is a web page for every place in the world, organizing all the world's information for that place. And we really mean every place: there are Place Pages for businesses, points of interest, transit stations, landmarks, and cities all over the world. To find a Place Page, click on 'more info' in your Google Maps search results or 'more info' in the info bubble on the map." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

Reminds me of Yelp. - beersage

"We've partnered with Life Inc. to digitize LIFE Magazine's entire run as a weekly: over 1,860 issues, covering the years from 1936 to 1972." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

It's pretty interesting to see a moving visual representation of how these companies' market caps changed over time. - Tom Stocky

I seriously thought Google Street View bot was going to lose it at the end, when he was overwhelmed with takedown/censor requests and just shut the whole project down. "You don't deserve Street View!" - Andrew C

Google should have Google Japan make the videos for all their products. - Melinda Owens

very good!!!!! - Otorino Arcadipane

Another elements video -- somehow this has become a theme for the day. =) - Tom Stocky

Perhaps some of the guys I work with at Vigo University might like this - Luis Martín Vallejo

"Data sources are United Nations historical data and Goldman Sachs forecasting data. Each circle represents the size of the nation’s economy every decade from 1970 to 2050. The countries are ranked by GDP each decade from largest to smallest." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

Nice visualisation, but should we trust Goldman Sachs forecasts? http://www.rollingstone.com/politic... - François Dongier

"'Meet The Elements,' a new animated music video from They Might Be Giants. This animated, upbeat ode to the periodic table of elements and how they form our world, appears on the new TMBG kids' album 'Here Comes Science.'" - Tom Stocky

Well, I was right about the last one :) Very nice this one too. - Luis Martín Vallejo

I converted my mom to Chrome 1 and she loved it immediately. I was a little surprised, and when I asked what she liked about it, she said "it's just really fast". Made me so proud :) - Joel Webber

"Early Wednesday morning, hackers installed seven notes on the great dome’s temporary scaffolding, commenting on its close resemblance to a musical score. The notes were the first seven of Rick Astley’s 'Never Gonna Give You Up.'" - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet