Google salutes MLK Day
President Barack Obama congratulates Google Science Fair winners, from left, Naomi Shah, Shree Bose, and Lauren Hodge in the Oval Office, Oct. 3, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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From NeilGaiman.com, a snapshot of the carpet at the Gungahlin Public Library in Australia.
¶ Twitter, Not Facebook, Should Fear the Google+ Beard
This was cross-posted on Google+
A lot of the hoopla over Google+ has been whether it’s a threat to Facebook. However, it’s Twitter who should fear the Google+ beard. Here’s why…
Social media networks have typically have one of two lineages - not both. They either first catch on with teens and twenty-somethings or they catch on with nerds (of which I count myself as one). Eventually there’s overlap.
Group A Graduates (Youth) Friendster, MySpace, Facebook and now Tumblr I would argue
Group B Graduates (Geeks) Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed (RIP) and now Google+ I would say
I am seeing a lot of the same patterns here as when Twitter took off at SxSW several years ago. Except this time it’s much faster! Media, brands and celebs are jumping in. And, by it’s nature, Google+ can be a much more public network than Facebook will ever be.
In the end we only have two eyes and one brain. That means there’s not enough time for all the screens and services in our lives. Twitter has a huge share of it now, but in one week, I have already seen that it is losing share of my mind and that of all my nerdy friends… to Google+. Shiny object syndrome? Maybe. But it’s the first inning.
My read: Twitter should be scared, very scared. Lose the small core who create most of the compelling content and you lose it all.
Google introduces search by image. Basically this is a reverse lookup for images. Don’t know an image’s source? Find out using search by image. This is basically tineye, but powered by Google, which should make it much more robust.
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Introducing the Chromebook
Google Seems to Think Abortion Is Murder
If you google “murder,” this is what comes up.
Continue reading… VillageVoice
One of our favorite things about Google? Is the amount of history you can learn from it. Take today for instance. Would you have ever known that it was the 115th anniversary of the x-ray? Wilhelm Roentgen discoverd it by accident by on this day in 1895. Perfect fact for any dinner parties you are attending tonight.
Introducing Google Instant: Search results appear instantly, as you type your query
“It’s Pakistan. This Muslim nation, notorious for conservatism, religious orthodoxy, and fanatical censorship seems to actually be the world’s forerunner in sex searches online according to data in Google Trends parsed by Fox News”
Where Google thinks the liberals are
Floating Sheep looks at Google Maps references to “conservative” and “liberal,” and finds Kansas is somehow very, very blue. Questions? - Maddowblog
