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Twitter, where did my followers go?

July 24, 2008 – 12:33 pm

Totally unacceptable.
You can’t look at your archive. You have to block people to unfollow them. And now you can’t even keep followers.
Dear Google, please build a Twitter clone that is directly related to GMail and Chat and call it Chatter. Okay. Thank you. Bye.

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Gooshing for a true UNIX feel

June 2, 2008 – 9:44 pm

Emily Chang pointed me to this link via Twitter.

It’s a sweet Terminal-like search engine that uses the Ajax libraries from Google. Impressive what a little CSS can do!
Check out the commands:

I might use this more than google.com for searches.

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Learn SEO from a Google webmeister

May 29, 2008 – 2:44 pm

Google is the first place many people go first when opening a web browser. It’s fast, reliable, and accurate. Search engine optimization could be the special sauce that makes or breaks your website. So let’s learn a little SEO from Google. Maile Ohye will be our driver.
Crawling
When you create a website, make it accessible without [...]

By me | Also posted in Advice, Ajax, Code, Internet, Programming, Reference, SEO, Search, Semantics, Standards, Web 3.0, YouTube, flash | Comments (5)

Marissa Mayer flexes Google’s imagination muscle

May 29, 2008 – 9:06 am

When you focus on the things people use every day, you solve big problems.

iGoogle gadgets are a new form of advertising.
The orginary and the every day.
Occam’s razor for logic: the simplest answer is probably right.
The Google homepage. Sergey created the original homepage. What inspired him to make it plain?
“We didn’t have a webmaster. And [...]

By me | Also posted in Conferences, Future, Imagination, Interactive, International, Internet, Interpersonal, Products, Search, Standards, Statistics, Technology | Comments (1)

Google I/O 2008 key[notes]

May 28, 2008 – 9:31 am

Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering at Google.
What does Google have to do with developers?

At a very high level, Google cares about moving the web forward. Advancing it, is something we think is critical to the ecosystem.
Do you have a cloud? I suspect not.
At Google, we spend millions of millions of dollars on clouds. We can [...]

By me | Also posted in Future, Information, Innovation, Mobile, Programming | Comments (1)

Comparing social platforms

April 23, 2008 – 7:33 am

Comparing Social Platforms

Dave Morin, Facebook
Allen Hurff, MySpace
Jessica Alter, Bebo
Patrock Chanezon, Google (Open Social)
David Recordon
Justin Smith, Inside Facebook

Dave: Making changes to the Facebook profile. It’s a core part of the user’s identity. Throughout the last year with the launch of the Platform, we have had many points of integration.
These new changes are focused on the actions [...]

By me | Also posted in Community, Conferences, Education, Facebook, Internet, MySpace, Notes, Social, Web 2.0 | Tagged Web 2.0 | Comments (0)
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