Notes"For the last few years or so, I've been fortunate enough to have my day job involve thinking critically about reading feeds. As a result, I've been musing about first principles."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Google Reader is ugly, but it works great as an online RSS newsreader. So what if I used Fluid.app to create a standalone Mac app and replace my desktop newsreader."Unfurl
Notes"If you want to get all that value, don't destroy the startup after you buy it. Give the founders enough autonomy that they can grow the acquisition into what it would have become."Unfurl
Notes"AppDrop is a container for applications developed with the Google App Engine SDK, running entirely on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"And you know what? There is something really evil about taking thousands of the world's smartest young people and using them to sell online text ads more efficiently. Really"Unfurl
Notes"Yahoo fell on some hard times but never lost her smile. She still wore her pretty purple dresses around town and acted as if nothing were wrong..."Unfurl
Notes"Unfortunately, Google has allowed Jaiku to languish and is now suffering a backlash from frustrated users who are beginning to mass-migrate to Twitter, a competing microblogging service. "Unfurl
Notes"The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."Unfurl
Notes"Droid was designed by Ascenderâs Steve Matteson to provide optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web browsers and for other screen text."Unfurl
Notes"Imagine if Google made a more open social networking tool than Facebook all via RSS feeds? Stick that into your RSS feed reader and smoke it!"Unfurl
NotesKind of a fluff piece, doesn't tell me much about what's going on at Google A2. It's all "Wow, kooky Californian office space with weird carpet and massage chairs and sunlight! How can you get any work done?"Unfurl
NotesBecause nothing will ever go wrong with this: "Instead of spending time becoming JavaScript gurus and fighting browser quirks, developers using GWT spend time productively coding and debugging in the robust Java programming language, using their existingFeedUnfurl
Notes"Google says in its user agreement that it will not be held liable for lost data, lost profits or lost revenue, or the cost of buying a substitute product if the Google Apps service fails."Unfurl
Notes"Well, that was fast. Google Gears hasn't even been announced yet, and already Google Reader users can install it and wallow in the splendor that is offline reading."Unfurl
Notes"Ann Arbor is to be home to Google's Adwords sales, one of the lowest status groups at the Googleplex. Those jobs, about as exciting as selling classifieds, are unlikely to persuade too many University of Michigan graduates to stay in the Rustbelt."Unfurl
Notes"Letâs face it: weâre not exactly becoming brighter by using Google. In fact, in the traditional education sense, weâre getting stupider, at least with certain types of tasks."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Amazon and Google have recently shattered a common misconception: that free APIs are a commons of goodies to be built on top of for fun and profit, like open source software."FeedUnfurl
Notes"With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs"Unfurl
Notes"Google has announced a new Ajax Feed API makes it possible to extract information from multiple RSS feeds with only a few simple lines of JavaScript"Unfurl
Notes"To maintain a high level of security, the Authentication Proxy interface, AuthSub, enables the application to get an authentication token without ever handling the user's account login information."Unfurl
Notes"Next generation Internet marketing firm Pure Visibility has hired Edward Vielmetti, an Internet veteran recently recognized by the BBC News as a pioneer in Web usage."Unfurl
Notes"My question to Google (and the JotSpot people) is how can you treat your customers, some of which have been there from the beginning so poorly?"Unfurl
Notes"So, here it goes, my top 5 reasons that you should avoid SEO. Or, if you want to do it the long way, just search google for âfive SEO excusesâ, without the quotes!"FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java development framework that lets you escape the matrix of technologies that make writing AJAX applications so difficult and error prone."Unfurl
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