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Connected | Contact Management Without the Work

contact management 9.95/mo

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june 2011 by vielmetti

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Google Acquires eBook Technologies

The core underlying firmware used in ETI’s eBook device technology is available for license. It consists of the following components: an embedded operating system, a file system, networking infrastructure, a graphics subsystem and most importantly the intuitive ETI reading experience layer. Heavy use of a book metaphor avoids computer-centric interactions throughout the UI, reinforcing the immersive quality of reading and replicating it uncompromisingly within ETI reading devices.

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january 2011 by vielmetti

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Google Let’s You Dumb Down Your Search Results With “Reading Level” Filter

RT @rustybrick: RT @sengineland: Google Let’s You Dumb Down Your Search Results With “Reading Level” Filter | O.M.G.

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december 2010 by vielmetti

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Op-Ed Contributor - Google's Earth - NYTimes.com

Now cyberspace has everted. Turned itself inside out. Colonized the physical. Making Google a central and evolving structural unit not only of the architecture of cyberspace, but of the world.

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september 2010 by vielmetti

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T.E.D. : TED 5000 Overview

TED 5000 now works with Google PowerMeter !
Access data:
View your electricity usage from any Internet-connected device, including your mobile phone.
Compare:
Display current and historical usage in easy-to-understand charts and graphs.
Save:
Find ways to reduce your electricity use and lower your monthly bills.

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april 2010 by vielmetti

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Ann Arbor to apply to become a test site for Google's super-charged broadband network - Washtenaw and Livingston News - Detroit News and Information - Crain's Detroit Business

The city of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan are working on a proposal to be one of the first communities to install Google’s new ultra high-speed broadband network.

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february 2010 by vielmetti

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Stanford signs Google Book Search agreement, endorses court settlement

Stanford Report, February 2, 2010
Stanford signs Google Book Search agreement, endorses court settlement

Google agreement expands digital scanning of millions of Stanford library books.

Stanford University has affirmed its support for the recently amended Google Book Search settlement agreement, which is now before a federal court, by expanding its earlier agreement with Google Inc. to digitize its library materials.

Stanford’s expanded agreement, which establishes it as a Fully Participating Library under the terms of the amended settlement agreement, is a milestone in Stanford’s commitment to the program and to the provision of public access to millions of its books.

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february 2010 by vielmetti

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BBC News - Google phases out support for IE6
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february 2010 by vielmetti

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Notional Slurry » I don’t own the Public Domain

A few days ago, Barbara and I discovered the Google Book Search Partner Program, and reading things over we wondered how some of the books we’ve scanned which are in the Public Domain might be submitted and shared.

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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Official Google Mobile Blog: Getting directions to businesses now easier on Google Maps for mobile

One of my favorite things about Google Maps for mobile is finding businesses on the go. Today we launched a server-side change that makes it easier to get directions to businesses. You can now get directions to restaurants, stores, and other points of interest by entering their names in the start or end point. Consider this example:

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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Unpleasant Google Trends Subversion:

✈ ▌▌. Typically this is a 4chan kind of thing.

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010 » VentureBeat

technology trend: "netbooks" turn into enormous mobile phones. see more at tag netbook+android

The image above shows a netbook Asus EEEPC 1000H running on Google’s mobile operating system Android. Huh? You thought Android was for mobile phones, right? Well, as we’ve written before, Google is planning to use Android for any device — not just the mobile phones.

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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Latest Patents

simple, straightforward dump of new patents day by day by company, not all companies there but lots of tech companies represented

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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Is there a Google Analytics API? - Google Analytics Help Center

nope

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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Google Patents -SEO by the Sea

I’ve located all of the granted Google patents that I could find that were either listed in the assignment database at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) or noted in their granted patents database as assigned to Google. I haven’t included Google’s pending patent applications.

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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Google Organizing the World’s Transit Information (Using Your Phone) -SEO by the Sea

In the Google Labs, Google Transit provides some information about public transportation, with the most extensive coverage of tranportation information available in Japan, covering all regional and national rail networks, domestic airlines and ferries. But the system described in this patent document goes far beyond making published schedules, routes, and stopping points available to people traveling.

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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Google LatLong: Map making in new worlds

We are pleased to announce the launch of Google Map Maker, mapmaker.google.com, for 43 new countries and territories, including Argentina, Costa Rica, and Fiji. Map Maker now allows people to create complete maps for 164 countries across the world. As we expand the launch of Map Maker to more countries, we never forget that for any user it's all about the world they live in. Map Maker is all about making your local data rich, complete and vibrant. Just take a look at how our users transformed the map of Islamabad, Pakistan in this time lapse video.

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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United States Patent: 7469827 - Google Transit

1. A method of providing transportation-related information, comprising: receiving location information indicative of a group of passenger-carried wireless telephone devices on board a mass transit vehicle selected from a group consisting of a bus, a train, and an airplane; generating mass transit vehicle schedule information based at least in part on the location information indicative of the passenger-carried wireless telephone devices on board the mass transit vehicle; and transmitting data relating to the mass transit vehicle schedule information to a remote device in response to a user request.

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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Google Research Publication: MapReduce
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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Google to Push for More Electrical Efficiency in PC’s - New York Times

“We now have 70 compliant designs from 15 to 20 manufacturers,” said the adviser, Chris Calwell, vice president and director for policy and research at Ecos Consulting. The new designs are just becoming available in commercial products, he said.

Modern PC designs shift the control of voltage to the motherboards, making the multiple voltage requirements of industry standard power supplies unnecessary, wrote Urs Hölzle and William Weihl, the authors of the Google paper, “High-Efficiency Power Supplies for Home Computers and Servers.”

Google executives said Monday that they were not familiar with the existing effort. They said the project was complementary with their plan and that they were trying to start an industry discussion of the issue.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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EETimes.com - Server makers get Goooogled

Google has designed and procured the boards solely for its own use to date. But now companies such as Rackable Systems Inc. (Fremont, Calif.) and others say they expect to be shipping similar boards soon.

Rackable, a system integrator that built Google's first 10,000 systems, launched a so-called CloudRack in late October, geared for big data centers. Early next year Rackable will ship for the enclosure its first 12V-only motherboards with two servers per board. Boards sporting four and six servers are running in Rackable's lab, said George Reitz, the company's vice president of sales.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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The End of Brand Advertising - Seeking Alpha

Don’t expect it to last, though. As the brands recognize that they are being bilked – rather, that there is at best a tenuous link between consumption of their goods and consumption of the free content they are sponsoring, they will be less likely to foot the bill. For the beneficiaries of free content, the internet is unraveling this whole ecosystem with unwavering speed.

If you are a media company, or a shareholder in a media company, there is a good reason to worry about what the next ten years hold in store. The enemy is not Google or the internet, but rather increased intelligence and analysis of advertising spend, which will irrevocably change the way advertisers allocate their dollars.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Changes at Google Scholar: A Conversation With Anurag Acharya

In its own quiet way, Google Scholar has become a major force in scholarly communication. For many researchers, faculty, and students, it is the first search tool used, challenging the popularity and utility of veteran databases licensed—often at considerable cost—by academic and corporate libraries. Yet announcements about changes in the constantly evolving service seem to occur rarely and with little ballyhoo. For example, did you know that Google Scholar has launched its own digitization project, separate from the high-profile Google Book Search mass digitization? Or what about the new Key Author feature? Or the expansion into non-English languages and non-U.S./Western European content? A conversation with Anurag Acharya, the designer and missionary behind Google Scholar, helped us catch up on the latest developments.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Google Librarian Central - Article 12/2006 - 3

When I interned at Google last summer after getting my MSI degree, I worked on projects for the Book Search and Google Scholar teams. I didn’t know it at the time, but in completing my research over the course of the summer, I would become the resident expert on how universities were approaching Google Scholar as a research tool and how they were implementing Scholar on their library websites. Now working at an academic library, I seized a recent opportunity to sit down with Anurag Acharya, Google Scholar’s founding engineer, to delve a little deeper into how Scholar features are developed and prioritized, what Scholar’s scope and aims are, and where the product is headed.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Google Blog Search loses its bearings

The Google Blog Search results have generally been the fastest and most useful tool of this kind (Google displaced Technorati, which had long served in this role, some time ago). But a couple of months ago Google Blog Search started becoming pretty much useless. Instead of only reporting links from the “main” blog content, it reported all links on a blog page, including the so-called “sidebar” or blogroll, where many bloggers place a lengthy static list of blogs they read.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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timetablepublisher - Google Code

The TimeTablePublisher is a single system that allows a transit agency to examine, modify, and transform raw scheduling data into easy-to-read timetables for customer information purposes. The application simplifies and accelerates the production of printed on-street schedules and web schedules, which is often a very time-consuming and manual process for most agencies. This results in more accurate, current, and consistent schedule information for the customer.

The TimeTablePublisher is designed to use data directly in the Google Transit Feed Spec (GTFS) format, so it can be very easy for an agency to implement. In addition, it can connect to, and read from, other sources of data including a database, a comma separated text file, and XML. An easy-to-use interface, as well as a tool that compares the changes between two service dates, makes it easy to format and edit the data.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Googling Security: book that opens your eyes to how much you disclose to Google - Boing Boing

In slow, methodical steps, Conti builds his case: our complacency, Google's capacity for building compelling services, and the inadequacy of our browsers and other tools in alerting us to potential information disclosure have created a situation where Google ends up in possession of an alarming amount of information about us, our beliefs, our movements, our finances, our health, our employment and our social circles.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Official Google Reader Blog: Square is the new round.

Out with the old rounded corners, drop shadows and heavily saturated colors -- in with a softer palette, faster components and a fresh new look. (Rounded corners are so Web 2.0, and we're trying to get past that.) (Still not a Web 3.0 design, not a clipped corner in sight.)

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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WWJ Newsradio 950 - Google AdWords Hit The MSU Classroom

Four teams of Michigan State University MBA students gave presentations on the Google AdWords campaigns they ran for Michigan nonprofits as part of a course called integrated marketing communications. At Google, the probram is called Keywords in the Curriculum.

"The Google perspective is that as the Michigan economy is transitioning, we feel we are equipping these soon-to-be-professionals with a set of skills they can deliver to the workplace immediately," said Jake Parillo, manager of Midwest Region communications and public affairs for the search giant.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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WebMetricsGuru » Automated Ads to figure out what your creative ought to be, plus more.

It is technology that could cause a shift in the advertising world. The creators and designers of ads have long believed that a clever idea or emotional resonance drives an ad’s success. But that argument may be difficult to make when analysis suggests that it is not an ad’s brilliant tagline but its pale-yellow background and sans serif font that attracts customers.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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resume search on blog

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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The Science of Memory: An Infinite Loop in the Brain - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Can someone who cannot forget even fall in love? Can they forgive, either others or themselves? Price's life has had its share of suffering, including family strife, her mother's cancer and, later, the sudden death of her husband Jim. Because she was hounded by bad memories, grew depressed and feared that she was going crazy, she sat in front of her computer on June 5, 2000 (a Monday) and typed a single word into Google: memory.

That was how Price found James McGaugh, and became part of a scientific case study.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Google Friend Connect: Add social features to your site

Grow traffic by adding social features to your site

Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other.

Set up a new site

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Enrich your site
Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.

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Attract more visitors
Your users can easily invite friends from social networks and contact lists to visit and join your site.

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No programming whatsoever
Just copy and paste a few snippets of code into your site, and Friend Connect does the rest.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Tracking social networks with Google Analytics using filters | Advanced Web Metrics

The result is a report that aggregates all visits from your social network in a similar way to how organic visitors or Google AdWords visitors are automatically aggregated by default. It provides an at-a-glance view to ascertain the importance/activity of social networks to you. In this case, visits from social networks are clearly important - the third most important medium accounting for 17.65% of visits to this site. Without the filter, that would be difficult to ascertain, requiring the manual identification and counting of each social network referral. As always, you gain further detail by clicking the report link.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Corporate Information - Google Management

Francois Delepine
Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis

Francois is responsible for financial business partnerships with Google's engineering, operations, products, marketing and G&A organizations, and he also manages the corporate FP&A activities and the financial systems group. He joined Google from Hyperion, where he was in charge of emerging businesses; including three fast-growing product lines the company had acquired through its M&A activities.

Earlier, Francois was Vice President of Corporate Finance, overseeing Hyperion's financial planning and analysis worldwide, as well as treasury, procurement, real estate, and the enterprise performance management group. Prior to joining Hyperion, Francois was CFO at Kadiri, a human capital management software company and CFO of Xtime, a service CRM software company.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Google Gears Down for Tougher Times - WSJ.com

Google hired a new vice president of financial planning and analysis, Francois Delepine, who sought to standardize and more tightly manage the budget process. Finance teams started allocating more new hires to groups that generated the most revenue per head, say people familiar with the matter. To better predict revenue, the company implemented quotas for ad-sales representatives and tied the pay of more employees to performance, these people said. Different departments were required to budget the same amount for the same item, whether it was a server computer or a business-class ticket to Europe.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Battle for the smart-phone's soul | The battle for the smart-phone's soul | The Economist

In 2009 each platform will be trying to win the hearts and minds of software developers, says Roberta Cozza of Gartner, another market-research firm. But even if one comes out ahead, it is unlikely that the market will consolidate soon. Strong economic interests are keeping each platform alive. Google wants to get its services and advertising on mobile phones. Nokia is also betting on services as a source of growth. And handset-makers and operators will probably continue to support LiMo, if only because they do not want to depend on Google or Nokia.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Will Lack of Relevancy be the Downfall of Google? " OUseful.Info, the blog...

“the era of the PC [i]s over,… the future belong[s] to cloud applications accessed via phones”"

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Sync for BlackBerry: Now with contacts

You asked for it, so here it is. We're happy to announce that in the latest update to Google Sync for BlackBerry, we've added two-way contacts synchronization. This new functionality will enable you to sync your handheld's built-in address book with your Gmail contacts. This all happens in the background and over the air, so your information is always up to date, no matter where you are or what you're doing.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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A2 AppEngine Hack-a-Thon 2008 | Google Groups

E-mail group for communicating with attendees of the 2008 before, during, and after the even.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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BigTable: A Distributed Structured Storage System

In this lecture at the University of Washington, Google's Jeff Dean discusses the Bigtable content storage system used in google's backend.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Google Research Publication: BigTable

Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance. These applications place very different demands on Bigtable, both in terms of data size (from URLs to web pages to satellite imagery) and latency requirements (from backend bulk processing to real-time data serving). Despite these varied demands, Bigtable has successfully provided a flexible, high-performance solution for all of these Google products. In this paper we describe the simple data model provided by Bigtable, which gives clients dynamic control over data layout and format, and we describe the design and implementation of Bigtable.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Downloads - Google App Engine - Google Code

app engine for mac os x is here

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Welcome to HBase!

HBase is the Hadoop database. Its an open-source, distributed, column-oriented store modeled after the Google paper, Bigtable: A Distributed Storeage System for Structured Data by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop.

HBase's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware. Try it if your plans for a data store run to big.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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mysqlgame - shard 1

Are you tired of browser-based games that are thinly veiled interfaces for databases? Finally, there's a game that just is a database!

THRILL as you insert your very own row in the "rows" table!

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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ReleaseNotes - app-engine-patch - Google Code

# updated Django to version 1.0.1

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Google App Engine - Google Code

main page for appengine stuff

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Perspectives - Jeff Dean on Google Infrastructure

Google does use lower quality hardware at a MUCH lower cost so, yes, they will see more hardware related failures. The two points that I find interesting are 1) hardware failures contribute the minority of outages -- software and administration are much bigger culprits, and 2) even VERY good hardware isn't good enough to avoid having to implement redundancy in software to mask failures. Once you have the reduncancy in software and can withstand hardware failures, why spend more to get good hardware?

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Conversations With Myself

Has anyone ever given you a large list of addresses and asked you to throw them on a map? It seems like I have been doing a lot of this lately. Here's a way to do it quickly using Microsoft Access, Google Earth, and ESRI's ArcMap. You could easily stop at plotting them in Google Earth, however I am taking it a step further to plot them in ArcMap because that's where I needed them.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID — The NeoSmart Files

OpenID is on tenterhooks as it is, and cannot withstand any more efforts to splinter its adoption. Never mind the fact that almost all the big names adopting OpenID are joining only as providers and not as relying parties (rendering the whole basis of OpenID useless) – now even the provider side of things is chaos.

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october 2008 by vielmetti

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48104 - Google Search

"Just type 48104 into Google and you'll find me"

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october 2008 by vielmetti

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Mass Digitization of Books, by Karen Coyle

In October 2005, a second library-related mass digitization project was announced: The Open Content Alliance (OCA).3 The OCA distinguished itself from Google in a number of ways. First, it would only digitize works in the public domain. Second, it would be "open." That is, it would make information about its technology available to others. Third, it was library-driven (although it receives funding from significant technology companies like Adobe and Microsoft). These latter two were in direct response to some criticisms of the commercial and secretive nature of Google's project. Scanning would be done by the Internet Archive using a system that they developed called "Scribe." The Internet Archive claims its digitization process costs around 10 cents a page and takes from 30 to 60 minutes for each book, depending on length. Announcements that the

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october 2008 by vielmetti

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John Wilkin's blog " Did I say "theoretical"? Openness and Google Books digitization

"John– while it may not be appropriate to start this in a comment, but I am quite taken aback by your seeming implication that “open” includes what google is doing and what UMich is doing." - Brewster Kahle

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october 2008 by vielmetti

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Paul Courant of Michigan Addresses Google Book Search Criticism (The Googlization of Everything)

Economist Paul Courant was the provost of the University of Michigan when it decided to be the first and boldest partner of Google for the library scanning project that has become part of Google Book Search.

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october 2008 by vielmetti

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Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets « OUseful.Info, the blog…

So to recap, we have scraped some data from a wikipedia page into a Google spreadsheet using the =importHTML formula, published a handful of rows from the table as CSV, consumed the CSV in a Yahoo pipe and created a geocoded KML feed from it, and then displayed it in a YahooGoogle map.

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october 2008 by vielmetti

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Mark Smolinski: Detect Epidemics Before They Start

Back in May 1993, as a medical resident at the University of Arizona, Mark Smolinski volunteered for a shift with the state's Department of Health. Right after he started, Arizona and neighboring states were struck by a deadly outbreak of an unidentified respiratory illness. The young doctor found himself face-to-face with an emerging epidemic, part of a team that spent sleepless months struggling to contain the outbreak. "I was going from hospital to hospital trying to determine the patients' exposures," he recalls of his harrowing first assignment. "Almost all the cases were under the age of 30, and it had a very high mortality rate."

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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Edge: THE PANCAKE PEOPLE, OR, "THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD"

Operating systems make it easier for human beings to operate computers. They also make it easier for computers to operate human beings. (Resulting in Richard Foreman's "pancake effect.") These views are complementary, just as the replication of genes helps reproduce organisms, while the reproduction of organisms helps replicate genes. Same with search engines. Google allows people with questions to find answers. More importantly, it allows answers to find questions. From the point of view of the network, that's what counts. For obvious reasons, Google avoids the word "operating system." But if you are ever wondering what an operating system for the global computer might look like (or a true AI) a primitive but fully metazoan system like Google is the place to start.

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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Wir suchen jetzt anderes in Google « Bibliotan

Eine Studie von Think Eyertraking zeigt, dass das Nutzungsverhalten von Suchmaschinen in letzten drei Jahren stark verändert hat. Wie man auf dem linken Bild feststellen kann, dass die Google-Nutzer vor drei Jahren ihr Suchergebnis aus der ersten Ergebnisseite ausführlich durchlasen und die Abstracts noch als eine wichtige Informationsquelle sahen. 2008, drei Jahre später brauchen wir meistens nur die erst zwei oder drei Ergebnisse von tausenden Suchergebissen.

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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Google Book Search APIs - Google Code

Google Book Search is our effort to make book content more discoverable on the Web. You can easily and reliably integrate with this repository from your site, in a number of ways.

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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Build a Web Page Monitor with Google Docs and Track Changes Automatically

As you may have seen in the previous tutorial on Google Docs, there’re built-in spreadsheet functions to help you easily import external data into Google Docs. One such useful function is ImportXML that, like ImportHTML, can be used for screen-scrapping.

The syntax is =ImportXML("web page URL", "XPath Expression")

Coming back to the spreadsheet, in order to fetch the price of ‘ipod nano’, we type the following formula:

=ImportXML("www.google.com/products?q=ipod+nano","//b[@class='ps-larger-t']")

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Omnigoogle

Google differs from Microsoft in at least one very important way. The ends that Microsoft has pursued are commercial ends. It's been in it for the money. Google, by contrast, has a strong messianic bent. The Omnigoogle is not just out to make oodles of money; it's on a crusade - to liberate information for the masses - and is convinced of its righteousness in pursuing its cause. Depending on your point of view as you look forward to the next ten years, you'll find that either comforting or discomforting. This post draws on my article The Google Enigma, which was published last year in Strategy & Business.

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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Eurozine - The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives - Geert Lovink A tribute to Joseph Weizenbaum

Serendipity requires a lot of time.

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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Google Transit Feed Specification - Google Transit Feed Specification - Google Code

specs for transit maps

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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BBC NEWS | UK | Online maps 'wiping out history'

She said: "Corporate cartographers are demolishing thousands of years of history - not to mention Britain's remarkable geography - at a stroke by not including them on maps which millions of us now use every day. "We're in real danger of losing what makes maps so unique, giving us a feel for a place even if we've never been there." Projects such as Open Street Map, through which thousands of Britons have contributed their local knowledge to map pubs, landmarks and even post boxes online, are the first step in the fight back against "corporate blankwash", she added.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Gmail

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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GOOLASH: anti-google firefox plugin

GOOLASH keeps you logged out from the search engine of Google, regardless of any other "G" services you might be using, like Gmail for example. GOOLASH keeps your web searches disassociated from your Google username, meaning that the results are not being filtered according to the profile Google has on you, neither the context of your requests is being attached to your persona. Doing some trickery with cookies GOOLASH cuts the tentacles of monstrous corporation away from your brain and CPU. Say NO to augmented reality of Google empire, embrace unfiltered content!

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You

Here at Google Research we have been using word n-gram models for a variety of R&D projects, such as statistical machine translation, speech recognition, spelling correction, entity detection, information extraction, and others. While such models have usually been estimated from training corpora containing at most a few billion words, we have been harnessing the vast power of Google's datacenters and distributed processing infrastructure to process larger and larger training corpora. We found that there's no data like more data, and scaled up the size of our data by one order of magnitude, and then another, and then one more - resulting in a training corpus of one trillion words from public Web pages.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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The Patry Copyright Blog: End of the Blog

For the first year after joining Google, with some exceptions, people honored the personal nature of the blog, but no longer. When other blogs or news stories refer to the blog, the inevitable opening sentence now is: "William Patry, Google's Senior Copyright Counsel said," or "Google's top copyright lawyer said... ." There is nothing I can do to stop this false implication that I am speaking on Google's behalf. And that's just those who do so because they are lazy. Others, for partisan purposes, insist on on misdescribing the blog as a Google blog, or in one case involving a think tank, darkly indicating also a la Senator Joe McCarthy, that in addition to funding from Google, there may be other sources of funding too. On Blogger, blogs are free. The blog had no funding because it doesn't cost anything, because I don't run ads, and because it was my personal blog, started before I joined Google.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Edge: ENGINEERS' DREAMS By George Dyson

As he surveyed the Google Archipelago, Ed was reminded of some handwritten notes that Julian Bigelow had showed him, summarizing a conversation between Stan Ulam and John von Neumann on a bench in Central Park in early November 1952. Ulam and von Neumann had met in secret to discuss the 10-megaton Mike shot, whose detonation at Eniwetok on November 1 would be kept embargoed from the public until 1953. Mike ushered in not only the age of thermonuclear weapons but the age of digital computers, confirming the inaugural calculation that had run on the Princeton machine for a full six weeks. The conversation soon turned from the end of one world to the dawning of the next.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Best practices when moving your site

Your aim is to make the transition invisible and seamless to the user, and to make sure that Google knows that your new pages should get the same quality signals as the pages on your own site. When you're moving your site, pesky 404 (File Not Found) errors can harm the user experience and negatively impact your site's performance in Google search results.
Let's cover moving your site to a new domain (for instance, changing from www.example.com to www.example.org). This is different from moving to a new IP address; read this post for more information on that.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Feeling lucky at PubCon

Keywords in URLs
We were also asked if it is useful to have relevant keywords in URLs. It's always a good idea to be descriptive across your site, with titles, ALT attributes, and yes, even URLs, as they can be useful signals for users and search engines. This can be especially true with image files, which otherwise may not have any text for a search engine to consider. Imagine you've taken a picture of your cat asleep on the sofa. Your digital camera will likely name it something like IMG_2937.jpg. Not exactly the most descriptive name. So unless your cat really looks like an IMG_2937, consider changing the filename to something more relevant, like adorable-kitten.jpg. And, if you have a post about your favorite cat names, it's much easier to guess that a URL ending in my-favorite-cat-names would be the relevant page, rather than a URL ending in postid=8652.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Varian on Technology, EconTalk Permanent Podcast Link: Library of Economics and Liberty

"yet the strong man must go"

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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Many new ‘friends’ to be made online, but what about dollars? | csmonitor.com

Mark Brooks has placed ads on MySpace and has been “amazed” at the low response rate, even on large, well-placed ads. The veteran marketing consultant says the puny results were almost “unbelievable.”

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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librarian.net » Blog Archive » Accessibility of Google Books

A little-known nifty thing about Google Books is that books already digitized via GB, whether in copyright or not, can be made available to students with visual disabilities. More inside scoop on the MBooks project at the BLT blog and at the MBooks access

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Love for sale | Information Wants To Be Free

If I like a product, it’s because it works, not because the people who created it were nice to me or nice to librarians. My love isn’t for sale.

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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Google (GOOG) Blows Q2: Multiple Compression Continues...

Queries in many sectors weak: autos, real-estate, finance, etc. Real estate down year over year. Y/Y auto ad spend up, but not on financing side (consumers hit). Consumers cautious. This is the first time Google has acknowledged weakness. Revenue performa

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Google Keyword Tool Adds Search Volume Statistics

more helpful stuff from perry

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Google Deliberately Sells Fewer Ads And May Have Gone Too Far - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist, said that while the company sees a bit of softness in ads for areas like auto lenders and real estate agents, other areas that might be economically sensitive are holding up, such as ads for home appliances.