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December 18, 2008
About two days ago, my Google homepage suddenly became hostile toward me. By hostile, I mean my IE7 browser is suddenly reporting a bunch of JavaScript errors and faults when loading the Google homepage that it wasn’t reporting before.
Whenever I visit my Google homepage now, I have to wade through 5 or 6 JavaScript error notifications [...]
Tags: code quality, Firefox, GMail, Google, IE, JavaScript, rant, script errors
Filed under: Programming, Web |
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November 17, 2008
I dropped by the Computer History Museum today to check out this year’s Mashup Camp and see what’s hot and what’s not. Turnout was good, about the same as what I remember at Mashup Camp in 2006 (or was it 2007?) – roughly 150 people milling about.
Today was pretty much sponsor’s day – the speedgeeking [...]
Tags: events, Google, Mashup Camp, mashups, semantic web
Filed under: Web, Work |
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October 14, 2008
Dion Almer of Ajaxian fame has announced he is leaving Google to head up a new developer tools group at Mozilla with longtime friend and Ajaxian cofounder Ben Galbraith. The two are quite the dynamic duo in the web development sphere and should bring a lot of energy and fresh ideas to the table in [...]
Tags: Ajax, Ajaxian, Ben Galbraith, Dion Almer, Google, Mozilla, tools
Filed under: Programming, Web |
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July 21, 2008
Lukas Biewald lays bare his frustrations with Amazon’s S3 service, particularly after the recent S3 service outtage that left his FaceStat business offline for more than 7 hours recently. Actually, Lukas has double posted on this issue – he has a much more scathing criticism of S3 over on his own blog: “Amazon S3 Screws [...]
Tags: Amazon S3, Google, online hosting, service level agreements
Filed under: Web |
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July 14, 2008
Radiohead has released a video for its “House of Cards” song that has the peculiar distinction of being a live-action video filmed without cameras. According to the Google Blog post ”No Camera, No Lights, Just Data“, the imagery was created using 3D scanning lasers and detectors.
The video, hosted online by Google, is visually interesting, but the novelty is [...]
Tags: 3D digitalization, data visualization, Google, music video, Radiohead
Filed under: Misc |
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July 4, 2008
WordPress.com, the commercial blog hosting company that uses blog software from WordPress.org, is adding Google Gears support to their hosted blog service. Initially, this will only speed up use of the blog administration pages by caching the scripts and images locally.
This isn’t really the best use of Gears, since the browser will cache content as it’ is accessed, [...]
Tags: blogging, Google, Google Gears, offline web apps, wordpress
Filed under: Web |
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July 1, 2008
I’ve just received a letter from Google that personal data of Google employees hired prior to December 31, 2005 may have been stolen in the May 26 burglary of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. No credit card numbers were in the stolen data, just names, addresses, SSNs – all the info needed for a thief to [...]
Tags: burglary, Colt, Google, identity theft, security breech
Filed under: Misc |
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June 30, 2008
There has been a bit of pot-stirring on the blogs this weekend. Dare Obasanjo reflects on recent migrations of Google engineers to Microsoft, using the “e” word (exodus). Dion Almaer fires back, pointing out that people move between companies all the time, hardly justification for the “exodus”.
Both are right, and both are wrong.
First off, I [...]
Tags: career, Google, jobs, Microsoft, recruitment, workplace
Filed under: Work |
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January 29, 2008
We’ve just pushed out a PicLens 1.6 update that adds web search to the immersive 3D PicLens media experience. This release runs in Firefox Mac and Firefox Windows.
While zooming around in images on the 3D wall, hit Tab to select the Search box in the top right corner of the screen (or mouse click on it). [...]
Tags: browser plugin, CoolIris, deviantart, Firefox, flickr, Google, mac, mediaRSS, multipage RSS, photobucket, PicLens, search, smugmug, windows, yahoo
Filed under: Web, Work |
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November 5, 2007
Although Google’s recently announced OpenSocial APIs are described as presenting a unified API for developers to tap into a variety of disparate social networks, the truth is the only unification is that the different vendors use a similar set of function verbs and response schemas.
OpenSocial is a pattern that a social network vendor can follow [...]
Tags: Google, OpenSocial, Programming
Filed under: Web |
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