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The Gmail Redesign
A ton of people I know seem to be bitching about this (as it was just forced upon everyone). IMO, the new design is better than the old one (just look as Jason Crawford’s side-by-sides at the end), but change is hard and all that.
The reality is that both designs pretty much blow. Gmail itself has become a big nightmare. As a backend for email, it’s awesome. As a web app, it’s awful.
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This is going to be fun to watch.
As a reminder, this is Google spending $12.5 billion in what, patents aside, seems like an awful deal.
(via China clears Google, Motorola merger: Deal to close ‘within days’)
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Today’s Google doodle celebrates what would have been the 78th birthday of Bob Moog, the father of electronic music. His Moog synthesizer grew out of his theramin manufacturing company (who would have thought those wouldn’t take off?) and changed music forever. Yes, without Moog, there would be no Skrillex. Shocking.
He started from a background in hard science, holding two bachelor’s degrees and a PhD in engineering physics. But he was able to apply his knowledge to his creativity, building tools for musicians worldwide to draw inspiration from. He took simple relationships of voltage and frequency (and the invention of a little thing called the transistor) and painted entirely new landscapes of sound.
You can play the Moog Google synth (hint: use your keyboard), and even record a four-track song! I hope you didn’t want to get anything done today.
Little known fact: Moog said his name was pronounced “moh-g”, not “moo-g”. I’m sure that correction will stick with everyone.
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How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus
Last year, Google, which had dabbled in official social-networking applications, released Google Plus. The site has all the things you’ve come to expect in a social network. There is a rich profile builder, a place for your photos, a nice videochat feature, a conversation feed, and, of course, “Circles,” which allow users to sort the people they know into different buckets. Word at the time was that Google’s full weight was behind this social push. The journalists who knew the company’s insiders best declared that Facebook was CEO Larry Page’s obsession.
I was bullish about Google Plus, even if it did feel like a Facebook clone. Google had built out a ton of infrastructure and was pushing Plus out through its major products. This had to be big!
But by most accounts and third-party research, the service is growing its number of users but not their engagement. People are “on” Google Plus, but they are not really ON Google Plus. The infrastructure is there. The street signs are there. People own plots of land. But there’s nobody actually visiting town.
Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal]
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Google’s self-driving cars may be out on the road already, but it will take awhile before public is truly ready to give up all driving control to artificial intelligence. In the interim, Volvo has a solution that lets drivers (sometimes) sleep at the wheel while still improving highway safety—and it just completed the first real-world tests.
Dubbed SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), the EU-backed project is working on road trains—vehicles equipped with software already found in many Volvo vehicles (including laser sensors, cameras, and radars) that are automatically led along the highway by a lead vehicle, which is commandeered by a professional driver. Regular drivers could one day simply use in-car navigation to find the nearest highway road train, get on the tail end, and let the vehicle platoon take over steering, braking, and acceleration.
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Meebo CTO and Co-founder Sandy Jen talks about when she started programming and the process of iterating towards product-market fit. On Monday, Meebo announced that it was being acquired by Google.
via Women 2.0
I used Meebo for years, but because the people I talk to rarely use IM anymore, I no longer use it. Great service though
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cnet:
Google’s new cloud service said to be imminent :
There’s speculation that the Web giant may launch its cloud service during Google I/O — putting it in competition with Amazon’s existing service and Microsoft’s rumored upcoming service.
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How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus
Last year, Google, which had dabbled in official social-networking applications, released Google Plus. The site has all the things you’ve come to expect in a social network. There is a rich profile builder, a place for your photos, a nice videochat feature, a conversation feed, and, of course, “Circles,” which allow users to sort the people they know into different buckets. Word at the time was that Google’s full weight was behind this social push. The journalists who knew the company’s insiders best declared that Facebook was CEO Larry Page’s obsession.
I was bullish about Google Plus, even if it did feel like a Facebook clone. Google had built out a ton of infrastructure and was pushing Plus out through its major products. This had to be big!
But by most accounts and third-party research, the service is growing its number of users but not their engagement. People are “on” Google Plus, but they are not really ON Google Plus. The infrastructure is there. The street signs are there. People own plots of land. But there’s nobody actually visiting town.
Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4l178MkOH1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
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ealperin asked: You're writing a Bruce Banner & Tony Stark paperback?!? Can I hug you, right now, or is it too early in the morning for it? :3
Honey I already did! That paperback collects the “Science Bros” and “Widow’s Ledger” arcs of...
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