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Google’s 10 golden design principles – always worth remembering

Friday, August 21st, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/68e8zq

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Mobile ‘Poor mans GPS’ in action – just the start!

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Not sure when it happened but Google launched a new beta version of its Google Maps for Mobiles with a feature “My Location”. This feature allows you to see your approximate location on a map via a mobile phone without using GPS. It calculates your location based on the nearest phone towers. Its nothing new but its exciting that the technology is starting to get used some more. While the Google thing works on many platforms, the Java integration of this technology is under JSR-179 “Location API” and there is a pretty cool article about the Java Location API here. This is just the beginning! This technology over the next year is going to get so hot!! Imagine the advertising potential as well as the opportunity for new and exciting business ideas around social computing etc.. How exciting.

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EPIC 2014 – “The Googlezon video”

Monday, August 27th, 2007

In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned. What happened to the news?

If you have not seen this yet, have a look.. quite amusing;

http://robinsloan.com/epic/

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Create your “own” search engine with Google..?

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

As we know Google are very good at making people work for them for free and they’ve done it again. You can now create your “own” search engine searching only your topics of interest and with your look and feel and even “tags”/filters.. I created one to test it and it searches Java resources… my link is;
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009593767841622448699%3Aejcfp_zyjty

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Google testing Sun’s OpenSolaris

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

“Google testing Sun’s OpenSolaris, sources say (September 20 2006, 12:00AM)

Despite so-so interest among open-source developers, Sun’s OpenSolaris is getting attention from Google, which is eyeing the operating system as a possible replacement for Linux in its data center, according to sources. ”

This is interesting and would be good for the momentum of OpenSolaris… I think the world could use some more Solaris and less Windows and Linux….

Read the article on ComputerWorld

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