Laurent Eschenauer: What’s next Google? Dropping SMTP support?
The litany of open standards that Google has been abandoning: RSS, XMPP, WebDav…
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Google Poetics
The accidental beauty in Google’s autosuggest algorithm.
Thoughts on Blink
A good history lesson in rendering engines: KHTML, WebKit, and now, Blink.
Google Keep? It’ll probably be with us until March 2017 - on average
Charles Arthur analyses the data from Google’s woeful history of shutting down its services.
So if you want to know when Google Keep, opened for business on 21 March 2013, will probably shut - again, assuming Google decides it’s just not working - then, the mean suggests the answer is: 18 March 2017. That’s about long enough for you to cram lots of information that you might rely on into it; and also long enough for Google to discover that, well, people aren’t using it to the extent that it hoped.
The Secret Door - Step Through To The Unknown… | Safestyle UK
Prepare to lose yourself for hours as you keep hitting “take me somewhere else” through these most bizarre and wonderful Google street view locations.
Strassenblickfernweh indeed.
You can’t create a button by Nicholas Zakas
Related to my rant on links that aren’t actually links: buttons that aren’t actually buttons.
Stratocam
Communal satellite eyes. A Mac screensaver is also available.
2012 Project Google Birdhouse - a set on Flickr
I’ve been thinking about getting a birdhouse.
CABINET // Trap Streets
A fascinating piece by James on trap streets, those fictitious places on maps that have no corresponding territory.
Lamps: a design research collaboration with Google Creative Labs, 2011 – Blog – BERG
Beautiful thoughtful work from the BERGians.
Street Ghosts project - Google Street View made Street Art and Public Concern
In the hippest areas for Street Art, life-sized pictures of people found on Google’s Street View are printed and posted without authorization at the same spot where they were taken.
Google Transparency Report
Google’s datadump makes for a fascinating—and worrying—bit of data dumpster diving.
Pictures and vision
Robin Sloan compares Facebook and Google in an interesting way:
Really, Facebook is the world’s largest photo sharing site—that also happens to be a social network and a login system.
Google is getting good, really good, at building things that see the world around them and actually understand what they’re seeing.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Responsive design – harnessing the power of media queries
Advice on creating responsive designs from Google. It’s not exactly the best tutorial out there (confusing breakpoints with device widths) but it’s great to see the big guns getting involved.
Google are about to murder a good friend of mine — Glenn Jones
Glenn gives a rational thoughtful explanation of why he’s as pissed off as I am about Google’s destruction of the Social Graph API.
The Case Against Google
An in-depth look at where Google is going wrong.
ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack - YouTube
Jason’s rip-roaring presentation from Defcon last year.
Official Google Blog: Renewing old resolutions for the new year
Google are shutting down the Social Graph API. Twunts.
Why does that QR Code go to justinsomnia.org? - Justinsomnia
As if you needed another reason why QR codes are shit ..are you certain you’ve proofed it?
Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 on Vimeo
2951 images at 12 frames per second. Each image is the “related image” of the image before according to Google image search. The first image is simply a transparent PNG.
Google, what were you thinking? ← Mocality Kenya
Stef does some data-sleuthing and uncovers some shocking behaviour on the part of Google in Kenya.
«Once Upon» by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied
What would Google+, YouTube and Facebook have looked like in 1997?
Bullshit – Marco.org
Everyone has their bullshit. You can simply decide whose you’re willing to tolerate.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: GET, POST, and safely surfacing more of the web
This move by Google to start executing some POST requests makes me very uneasy: the web is agreement and part of that agreement is that POST requests are initiated by the user.
Aral Balkan · Google Dart, or ‘how we lost the ECMAScript 4 battle so we decided to create our own language instead’.
Aral takes the words right out of my mouth. This is pretty much exactly how I feel about Dart.
Is the app economy killing online publishers? — Mobile Technology News
An excellent article that examines the supposed benefits of publishing through someone else’s app store instead of the web.
The web is a different problem | Web Directions
John pushes back against the idea that browser innovation is moving too slow.
Page Speed Service Home
Performance shit just got real.
You can now sign up with Google to have your site pass every request through them and get your documents served up optimised.
Google Analytics Blog: Measure Page Load Time with Site Speed Analytics Report
Great news! Google Analytics now tracks page load times.
Google can’t be trusted with our books | Simon Barron | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The threat to Google Videos shows businesses are not suitable cultural custodians — they can’t be held accountable to the public.
Page Speed Online
A supremely useful tool from Google for measuring performance.
BBC News - Are you experienced? Business and the web user experience
A nice overview of the increasing importance of UX on the web, written by Bobbie with soundbites from Andy.
YouTube - Being a Google Autocompleter
Yeah, it’s an April Fool’s video (lamest day on the internet) but this is amusing.
Use Huffduffer directly in Google Reader and on your Android Phone | Frankie – Award winning Art Director
How cool is this‽ You can create your own custom “huffduff it” link for items in Google Reader.
The Pod F. Tompkast, episode 1 on Huffduffer
The Google voicemail transcript, which begins at 11 minutes in, cracked me up.
Jon Rafman
Some of the more unusual moments in time that have been captured by Google Street View. There’s something very Gibsonian about this.
ongoing by Tim Bray · Broken Links
Tim Bray calmly explains why hash-bang URLs are a very bad idea.
This is what we call “tight coupling” and I thought that anyone with a Computer Science degree ought to have been taught to avoid it.
isolani - Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
Excellent, excellent analysis of how URLs based on fragment identifier (a la Twitter/Gawker/Lifehawker) expose an unstable tottering edifice that crumbles at the first JavaScript error.
So why use a hash-bang if it’s an artificial URL, and a URL that needs to be reformatted before it points to a proper URL that actually returns content?
Out of all the reasons, the strongest one is “Because it’s cool”. I said strongest not strong.
Google Prediction API - Google Code
An interesting, if necessarily somewhat complicated-looking, API from Google: analyse your user's past behaviour to predict future outcomes.
Google LatLong: Finding Places on the Web: Rich Snippets for Local Search
If you aren't already marking up addresses in hCard, you really, really, really should start.
Google Public Policy Blog: A joint policy proposal for an open Internet
Google reaffirms its commitment to net neutrality ...except when it comes to wireless broadband, of course, because that's *totally* different, right? This disgusts me.
Google - Москва-Владивосток: виртуальное путешествие на Картах Google
Well: this is an odd one: the entire duration of the trans-siberian railway on video and simultaneous map.
HTML5Rocks - Home
A new HTML5 resource from Paul Irish and other Googlers.
The Paciello Group Blog » When will Google Chrome be accessible?
Steve Faulkner has created a petition to let Google know what screenreader users think of Chrome's appalling lack of basic accessibility hooks.
Google Font Directory
Google-hosted free-as-in-beer webfonts.
The WebM Project : The WebM Project : Welcome to the WebM Project
Mozilla, Opera and Google are collaborating on an open format for audio and video for the web (a wrapper for Vorbis for audio and VP8 for video).
HTML5 Geolocation with Fallback to Google Ajax API: HTML5
An excellent way to do geolocation even in browser that don't support it natively.
Usability Testing: You are not your user. No matter how good you think you are.
A lesson from Google Buzz: a large sampling isn't always a representative sampling.
Making Light: The lily knows not why it blossoms in the spring
Before we point the finger and laugh at the Facebook users leaving confused comments on Read Write Web, we should look to our own experiences with Google Buzz.
Blissbat Loves Books » Blog Archive » Google Buzz Screws Up
Erin explains exactly how badly Google have messed up privacy concerns with Buzz.
Fuck you, Google « Fugitivus
A frightening tale of just how badly Google messed up with the lack of privacy controls on Buzz.
Issue 31482 - chromium - Huge amount of goats teleported - Project Hosting on Google Code
Best. Bug report. Ever.
The Paciello Group Blog » Google Chrome frame - accessibility black hole
Using Google Chrome Frame in IE will give users of assistive technology the same shitty to non-existent experience they would get in the actual Google Chrome browser.
Webmaster Tools - Rich Snippets Testing Tool
A tool from Google to help you see how your microformated content is showing up.
Let's make the web faster - Google Code
A whole heap of optimisation techniques from Google for faster CSS, JavaScript, markup and PHP.
A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web - NYTimes.com
Foreheadslappingly stupid behaviour from the Associated Press.
Google Quick Search Box
A Quicksilver rival from Google.
Google Code Blog: Introducing Page Speed
GSlow.
Google Web Elements
Standalone embeddable widgets from Google that you can drop into any web page. The maps widget finally frees the maps API from the tyranny of coupling a domain with an API key.
Cory Doctorow: We must ensure ISPs don't stop the next Google getting out of the garage | Technology | guardian.co.uk
A superb call to arms on the importance of "fat pipe, always on, get out of my way."
Ping - Should Design Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data? - NYTimes.com
Douglas is featured in The New York Times (and look: there's Dustin behind him).
Identify: Google People With Two Keystrokes - ReadWriteWeb
A nice overview of Glenn's XFN Firefox plug-in.
Portal Me
A person-specific portal generated using Google's Social Graph API. And it's less than 5K!
Goodbye Google | stopdesign
Douglas explains why he's leaving Google. "I won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data."
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical
There's a new rel value in town: "canonical". It looks like an awful lot like "bookmark".
Official Google Blog: Introducing Measurement Lab
Vint Cerf announces M-Lab: an excellent resource which will allow people to find out if and how their internet access is being throttled. Viva l'internet!
AJAX APIs Playground
A nice way to play around with Google's APIs. Example code is provided which you can edit and immediately see the results.
London V2 Rocket Sites...Mapped - Londonist: London News, Food, Arts & Events
Gravity's rainbow on a Google map.
Main - browsersec - Google Code - Browser Security Handbook landing page
This looks like being an excellent—and free—resource "...meant to provide web application developers, browser engineers, and information security researchers with a one-stop reference to key security properties of contemporary web browsers."
Helvetireader
Jon's helvetican theme for Google Reader.
United States Patent Application: 0080209234
A patent filed by Google for offshore server farms cooled by sea water.
Brighton Wifi Hotspots (and WEP/WPA passwords)
WiFi hotspots in Brighton (including passwords where required) courtesy of Josh.
http://google.com/robots.txt
User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains
Google Code Blog: QR Codes now available on the Google Chart API
The Google Chart API can produce QR codes. Neato!
New Statesman - Obscenity trial?
In the course of defending a porn site owner, a defense attorney has come up with an interesting way of trying to define "community standards" ...using Google search stats.
Official Google Data APIs Blog: OAuth for Google Data APIs
All of Google's data APIs (Calendar, Blogger, Contacts, etc.) all now support OAuth. Excellent!
AJAX Libraries API - Google Code
Google is now hosting all the major JavaScript libraries. The caching benefits should be good news for your users.
Google Doctype - Google Code
This looks like it could be a very valuable resource indeed: a user-contributed and edited reference for HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
vidnik - Google Code
A handy Mac app from Google that allows you to record from your iSight and upload directly to YouTube.
OAuth support for Google Accounts and Contacts API - OAuth | Google Groups
As promised by Kevin Marks in the Q&A after my panel at South by Southwest, the Google Contacts API now supports OAuth. w00t!
bn14aj - Google Maps
There is an undocumented feature in Google Maps: add "&output=html" to the URL to get the accessible, non-Ajax version.
App Engine, Facebook Platform, OpenSocial, and the Future of the Web - O'Reilly Radar
David Recordon shares his first impressions of Google App Engine.
OpenID for Google Accounts
Every Google account can now be an OpenID login thanks to this app built with the Google App Engine.
What Is Google App Engine? - Google App Engine - Google Code
Infrastructure just got even cheaper. Between this and Amazon's EC2/S3, the barrier to entry to getting an app up and running is getting lower and lower.
We Tell Stories - 'The 21 Steps', by Charles Cumming
The first of the We Tell Stories series is online. It's a clever piece of storytelling using Google Maps to full effect.
Coding Horror: A Question of Programming Ethics
A cautionary tale that explains just why the password anti-pattern needs to die. Coding horror indeed: in this case, 1,777 GMail accounts were compromised.
Google Static Maps API - Google Code
Google Maps now provides static (IMG-based) alternatives to the JavaScript API.
Google Code Blog: URLs are People, Too
This is great news! Brad Fitzpatrick and Kevin Marks have built a new Google API that will spider XFN links.
From The Magazine : Radar Online : Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evil
Scroogled is a short story by Cory Doctorow that's especially timely.
Official Google Blog: Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
Google have a service called Knol on the way. It looks like it's going up against Wikipedia.
Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code
All the code you need to add charts and graphs to your site.
Google Maps
The new "you are here" feature on the mobile version of Google Maps looks, as Matt Jones said, "indistinguishable from magic." But it doesn't work on my phone. Grrr...
What would happen if Google tried to apply SEO techniques to itself?
YouTube - Microformats in Google Maps + Operator
Ian Lloyd gets search results for curry houses in Swindon from Google Maps to his phone in less than 60 seconds. All thanks to hCard.
Google 'to test rival to Second Life' - Times Online
Is Google Earth about to become a more immersive environment?
BBC NEWS | Technology | Fossett sought via Google Earth
There's something very Gibsonesque about this real world mashup of Google Maps and Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
What Is Your Provenance?
If you missed it at XTech in Paris, here's a chance to see Gavin Bell's excellent musings on identity and consolidation from a talk he gave at Google.
Official Google Maps API Blog: Microformats in Google Maps
W00t! This is a biggie! Google Maps now returns its listing results in hCard. Now you can do one-click export to your address book (or phone).
Google Maps
This is so so childish but here you go: rude place names on Google Maps.
What I've been working on: The New Google Analytics, by Jeffrey Veen
Finally revealed: what Jeff has been working on since he moved into the lair of the Google. He's been making Google Analytics look and feel nicer.