(32) Google: Who is/was the champion for the following "failed" products at Google? What retribution did they face? Or did they just fall forward in their career? - Quora
24 days ago by rtlechow
"Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?" - Thomas J. Watson
failure
google
management
24 days ago by rtlechow
Quantifying comedy on YouTube: why the number of o’s in your LOL matter | Research Blog
february 2012 by rtlechow
"Fortunately, at YouTube, we have more to work with. We focused on videos uploaded in the comedy category. We captured the uploader’s belief in the funniness of their video via features based on title, description and tags. Viewers’ reactions, in the form of comments, further validate a video’s comedic value. To this end we computed more text features based on words associated with amusement in comments. These included (a) sounds associated with laughter such as hahaha, with culture-dependent variants such as hehehe, jajaja, kekeke, (b) web acronyms such as lol, lmao, rofl, (c) funny and synonyms of funny, and (d) emoticons such as :), ;-), xP. We then trained classifiers to identify funny videos and then tell us why they are funny by categorizing them into genres such as “funny pets”, “spoofs or parodies”, “standup”, “pranks”, and “funny commercials”."
ai
google
sentiment
research
comedy
humour
february 2012 by rtlechow
Avería – The Average Font
october 2011 by rtlechow
"I am not a type designer. This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer. The field of typography has long fascinated me, and I love playing with creative programming ideas, so it was perhaps inevitable that the idea came to me one day of “generative typography”. A Google on the subject brought up little, and I put the idea to the back of my mind until it occurred to me that perhaps the process of averaging, or interpolating, existing fonts might bring up interesting results."
algorithms
typography
google
ai
software
programming
type
design
october 2011 by rtlechow
mod_pagespeed Examples Directory
november 2010 by rtlechow
"Here are some of the most useful filters provided by mod_pagespeed. Each one has a simple HTML example attached; click "before" to see the original file, and "after" to see what mod_pagespeed produces with that filter (and only that filter) enabled. The two versions should look exactly the same, but the "after" one will be (slightly) speedier. Use "view source" to see the mod_pagespeed difference!"
apache
development
google
optimization
web
november 2010 by rtlechow
How to find start-up ideas
july 2010 by rtlechow
"Here’s another way to come up with startup ideas: walk around your house or apartment, and look for “hot spots.” A hotspot can be an area of high information density, clutter, stress, disorganization, or any place that has a suboptimal solution. Then think about a web or cloud solution to that hot spot. Let’s take a look at a few examples:
Music CDs -> iTunes, Amazon MP3 store, doubleTwist, MP3tunes, etc.
Bookshelf -> Amazon, Kindle, iBooks
Stereo system -> Sonos, Squeezebox, Rhapsody, Pandora, last.fm, Spotify, Grooveshark, MOG, Rdio, etc.
External hard drives -> Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Pogoplug"
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business
creativity
entrepreneurship
startup
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inspiration
mattcutts
google
Music CDs -> iTunes, Amazon MP3 store, doubleTwist, MP3tunes, etc.
Bookshelf -> Amazon, Kindle, iBooks
Stereo system -> Sonos, Squeezebox, Rhapsody, Pandora, last.fm, Spotify, Grooveshark, MOG, Rdio, etc.
External hard drives -> Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Pogoplug"
july 2010 by rtlechow
Chrome Experiments - Home
july 2010 by rtlechow
"Not your mother's JavaScript."
javascript
js
programming
visualization
scripting
html5
google
animation
experimental
development
canvas
code
browser
browsers
chrome
experiments
googlechrome
demo
games
web
july 2010 by rtlechow
Google Research Publication: BigTable
july 2010 by rtlechow
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber
architecture
cloud
database
data
cluster
databases
development
distributed
filesystem
google
paper
pdf
programming
scalability
bigtable
Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber
july 2010 by rtlechow
skipfish - Project Hosting on Google Code
march 2010 by rtlechow
"A fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool. Key features:
* High speed: pure C code, highly optimized HTTP handling, minimal CPU footprint - easily achieving 2000 requests per second with responsive targets.
* Ease of use: heuristics to support a variety of quirky web frameworks and mixed-technology sites, with automatic learning capabilities, on-the-fly wordlist creation, and form autocompletion.
* Cutting-edge security logic: high quality, low false positive, differential security checks, capable of spotting a range of subtle flaws, including blind injection vectors.
The tool is believed to support Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin) environments. "
security
web
google
tools
opensource
webdev
scanner
software
* High speed: pure C code, highly optimized HTTP handling, minimal CPU footprint - easily achieving 2000 requests per second with responsive targets.
* Ease of use: heuristics to support a variety of quirky web frameworks and mixed-technology sites, with automatic learning capabilities, on-the-fly wordlist creation, and form autocompletion.
* Cutting-edge security logic: high quality, low false positive, differential security checks, capable of spotting a range of subtle flaws, including blind injection vectors.
The tool is believed to support Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin) environments. "
march 2010 by rtlechow
Jay Rosen Interviews Demand Media: Are Content Farms "Demonic"?
december 2009 by rtlechow
"So Jarvis writes, "I think we may see search fall as the sole or even key means of discovery and filtering of quality content. I see three rings of discovery today: search (Google); algorithms (see: Google News, Daylife); and humans (see: Twitter). Note again that Bit.ly alone causes as many clicks a month -- one billion -- as Google News. Human power rises again. That's what Fred Wilson says today when he argues that social beats search, because "it's a lot harder to spam yourself into a social graph." What do to you think of Wilson's idea, "social beats search" because it cannot be gamed as easily? If he's right, isn't that a threat to Demand Media's profits?"
seo
google
media
content
socialmedia
december 2009 by rtlechow
Google Maps ‘Bike There’ | …for a safer, healthier, happier world. :-)
november 2009 by rtlechow
If you speak ‘nerd’, or know someone who does, then the rest of this could apply to you. There are some high-level FAQs about data formats, and a link to a form to fill-out if you have some data and you want to partner with Google to get your data integrated into Google Maps. The data we most care about here, of course, is bike-related data — bike lanes, routes, paths, etc.
maps
google
cycling
bikes
bike
activism
bicycle
googlemaps
november 2009 by rtlechow
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