Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.

how google does it.

handy educational tutes on various concurrency models; a bit of a hadoop emphasis

google without tracking or, er, features.

Google's replacement for wave based on testing of what users actually did with wave.

a thingy which points out when google is monitoring your behaviour in your browser

google apps (including calednar, docs etc) support automation much like M$ office. but cooler. mail merges, geocoding spreadsheets

automatic writing cliche manufacturer, based on the most common phrases in use in the global datasphere at this point in time

google's FOSS wave server is backed by mongodb

The Sun buyout finally starts the IP apocalypse.

a CLI python script to automate uploading/downloading/editing things from the command line

magickal classifiers and predictors on arbitrary data, courtesy google. probably handy for stuff, esp if they actually disclosed the algorithm.

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bombastic, didactic rants about javascript for java developers. Nice to have it summarised here rather than the more productive approach of submitting a patch

looks to be some kind of ideascale workalike

Yet another social aggregation thingy

google autocomplete tastiness

programmatic access to everyone's favourite collaborative massive dataset spreadsheet. great if you're running, say, a collaborative data collation/preening project.

custom variables can now be more than simple tags. this means crazy, crazy custom segmentation on your data is available, based on source or whatever

best bunch of javascript inheritance discussions ever.

the google internal recomendations against python discussed

google's compiled high-performance language with erlang-like concurrency. Emphasis on simplicty of lang implementation and programmer productivity. OO, but no type hierarchy. standard library already supports enough infrastructure to run web servers.

The dark horse in the social web race, google friend connect has a pretty interesting approach - for example, it works on absolutely any page.

choropleths for google maps

looks easier than firefox extensions

google sidewiki is available as a bookmarklet

just notices that django needs this middleware to cache properly when you have google analytics. holy shit.

nice examples of VML/SVG google maps interaction

general scripty quick search box plugins

fantastic javascript play ground of google APIs where you can try stuff out live in-browser

google's approach will surely be informed by maintainability and scaling, no? Nice no-nonsense approach to threads, for example

Interesting for geek and student alike: upload yr scans and have them turn into text.

elegant combination of pipes and spreadsheets to do mapping mashups

worse graphic design but wider device support than phonegap

ooh! save RSI on typing shit!

Hany widget to bulk geocode a simple text lsit of addresses

Beautiful hack to get fiddly data out of tables online codelessly

Google has nice conversions for spreadsheet data mapping. No geocoding baked in, sadly. Lamers.

There's some hidden gems in google's trite re-branding as a government service provider. Their ideascale+forum thing, "moderator" looks interesting.

google having their own internal portability process

A GUI for GDAL's map tile cutter, easing the generation of tile sets. get into it.

beautiful. and automated map tile cutter.

Hm - an intersting use of google's pagerank algorithm. But I wonder how it performs under conditions of low information? (there is no food-web-spider)

The fiddly intersection of cartography and chronology

real mashup sites can get free google visualisation powers

Making at that javascript<-> flash communication easier in one dimension at least - accessing interesting google maps features.

Some choice snippets about he google books settlement as an IP watershed - both as an economics-of-books-issue, and as intersting problem for, say, researching language corpii.

subscribing to notifications that things are happening

This guy reckons google's returned result parsing is tedious.

how ou get easy loading of javascript libraries

nice ui for spreasheet geo business

righteous hack! a thingy that hosts and executes on demand a tiny glue script. targeted at HTTP

some kind of twisted fan site for google maps.

A nice hack - this searches your site for alternative content shoudl punters link somewhere incorrect...

nice little python blog

refuse to waste space on excel? this google docs droplet might be handy. also appears to have pythonic access to the os x keychain. remind me to work out how they did that.

google custom search for torrents. seems rather comprehensive.

debug your imap stupidness with a naked imap wrangling ui

Quciksilver's abandonware status getting you down? why not try google's alternate launchbar?

python google search scraping bypassing API limits

one stop google-style analytics/SEO shop

an implementation of the google app engine api *in* django.

search you google docs and bookmarks from the mac os search interface

someone else has done the work of converting your blogs between blogger, movabletype, livejournal and wordpress. optionally via google app engine.

an app to cut large image into google(/yahoo/windows live)-style tiles

using django as a thin glue between your cloud resources (flickr, say)