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Tempus fugit

Yahoo plus tumblr could be greater than G Minus

notational:

paperbits:

For all that Yahoo! completely screwed up and deleted Geocities, my Flickr photo stream is still there and works as well as it did in 2005. Not a single URL has broken, not a single image is missing.

I hope Yahoo! survives and that Tumblr can be part of that success.

Tumblr is an organic social network

Creating a faux social network and forcing it upon users is unwise. The entity to whom I will not refer by name just announced that they would be discontinuing all games and puzzles on their much publicized, two year old social network, G Minus. How fun is that?

The new G Minus user interface, released a few days ago, has all the functionality of Pinterest as a medium for verbal communication. (Pinterest is the worst website for text content, ever). The look and feel of G Minus is very similar to Pinterest, two years after Pinterest introduced it.

Big G needs more self-doubt (hubris…). Big G should have done more, or rather, better, market research. To get a better feel for this, visit my old column on Newsvine or the site’s landing page (I’m sorry if I’m drifting toward self-promotion, maybe in need of a hubris course correction of my own),  Newsvine. 

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amityarashi: Uses of Google. lol :D Yes! My most frequent use of Google is for its excellent functionality as a multi-purpose spell-checker and thesaurus.

amityarashi:

Uses of Google. lol :D

Yes!

My most frequent use of Google is for its excellent functionality as a multi-purpose spell-checker and thesaurus.

Via ProstheticKnowledge: Google BBS

Maybe this is what Google would have looked like, if it had arrived a decade or two earlier. MassWerk visualized a circa 1985 incarnation. Take it out for a spin at Google BBS Terminal. See what you think.

Lower ManhattanThat looks like it came from the Google Maps stereostropic viewer to me. I’ve never seen anything on Division Street look this good.

Lower Manhattan

That looks like it came from the Google Maps stereostropic viewer to me. I’ve never seen anything on Division Street look this good.

(Source: chriswoebken, via lleigha)

Where? Only Nine Eyes knows the answer. He has the scariest video of Second Life I ever saw. Well, not 9 Eyes… Google Street View hasn’t made it there, not yet. No, this was on a linked site. Ask, and I will point you in the right direction.

Where? Only Nine Eyes knows the answer.

He has the scariest video of Second Life I ever saw. Well, not 9 Eyes… Google Street View hasn’t made it there, not yet. No, this was on a linked site. Ask, and I will point you in the right direction.

(Source: 9eyes)

theartofgooglebooks: The Art of Google Books has finished up its solo show at the Reitz Union. I have more have seventy framed prints, featuring the full spectrum of anomalies….

theartofgooglebooks:

The Art of Google Books has finished up its solo show at the Reitz Union.

I have more have seventy framed prints, featuring the full spectrum of anomalies….

david: “Ohhhhh”

david:

“Ohhhhh”

(Source: sam)

Google Maps homesteads built with LEGO

Yes, one can now build with LEGO anywhere and everywhere, well, certainly throughout Australia on Google Maps. Don’t worry if you are not located in Australia or New Zealand, as it seems to work fine for users in other countries e.g. for me in the U.S.A.

As of now, this Google Maps ‘feature’ (I’m not really sure what it is… it doesn’t seem clearly tied to Google Play which is a  games platform) is limited to a single continent. The website “About” page indicates that other parts of the world may become available for LEGO homesteading in the near future.

The site address, Build with Chrome map reminds me that it may be necessary to use Chrome browser for this to work, or perhaps a Chrome Netbook, if you have one (I don’t). It functioned well on my laptop, but I don’t know if it would on any of those high end fancy devices like iTablets…

~;o)

theartofgooglebooks:

Library artifacts intrude on endpaper landscapes. 

From The Golden Silence by Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson, 1911. Original from Harvard University. Digitized in February 2008.

theartofgooglebooks: Collage of peritexts, including the printer’s statement, a cataloger’s notes, and a Public Library of the City of Boston paper punch. From the front matter of The Human Hair: Its Structure, Growth, Diseases, and Their Treatment by Hermann Beigel (1869). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 23, 2007.

theartofgooglebooks:

Collage of peritexts, including the printer’s statement, a cataloger’s notes, and a Public Library of the City of Boston paper punch.

From the front matter of The Human Hair: Its Structure, Growth, Diseases, and Their Treatment by Hermann Beigel (1869). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 23, 2007.