http://www.diigo.com/user/Joel/google Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:04:53 -0000 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:04:53 -0000 http://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en-US/features.html <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/chrome' rel='tag'>chrome</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/features' rel='tag'>features</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:04:53 -0000 http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/media' rel='tag'>media</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/reading' rel='tag'>reading</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/brain' rel='tag'>brain</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/mind' rel='tag'>mind</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:25:20 -0000 http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4362950.ece <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">The computer is training us not to attend, to drown in the sea of information rather than to swim. Jackson thinks this can be fixed. The brain is malleable. Just as it can be trained to be distracted, so it can be trained to pay attention. Education and work can be restructured to teach and propagate the skills of concentration and focus. People can be taught to turn off, to ignore the beep and the ping.</div></p><p><div class="content">Ironically, the companies most active in denying us our craving for depth, the great distracters – Microsoft, Google, IBM, Intel – are trying to do something about this. They have formed the Information Overload Research Group, “dedicated to promoting solutions to e-mail overload and interruptions”. None of this will work, of course, because of the overwhelming economic forces involved. People make big money out of distracting us. So what can be done?</div></p><p><div class="content">“I feel that much of my life is ebbing away in the tide of minute-by-minute distraction . . . I’m not certain what the effect on the world will be. But psychologists do say that intense close engagement with things does provide the most human satisfaction.” The psychologists are right. McKibben describes himself as “loving novelty” and yet “craving depth”, the contemporary predicament in a nutshell.</div></p><p><div class="content"><p>In an influential essay in The Atlantic magazine, Nicholas Carr asks: “Is Google making us stupid?” Carr, a chronic distractee like the rest of us, noticed that he was finding it increasingly difficult to immerse himself in a book or a long article – “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.” </p><p> Instead he now Googles his way though life, scanning and skimming, not pausing to think, to absorb. He feels himself being hollowed out by “the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self – evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’”. </p></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/culture' rel='tag'>culture</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/attention' rel='tag'>attention</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/distraction' rel='tag'>distraction</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:55:36 -0000 http://www.teknobites.com/2008/02/05/send-bookmarks-from-google-reader-to-delicious <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/reader' rel='tag'>reader</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/bookmark' rel='tag'>bookmark</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:08:22 -0000 http://code.google.com/p/ocropus <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/ocr' rel='tag'>ocr</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/opensource' rel='tag'>opensource</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:23:33 -0000 http://hackety.org/2008/05/05/sneakingRubyThroughGoogleAppEngine.html <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/ruby' rel='tag'>ruby</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/app' rel='tag'>app</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:21:40 -0000 http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/11/language-detection-in-gmail.html <p>How language identification was used in Gmail</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/detection' rel='tag'>detection</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/language' rel='tag'>language</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:59:24 -0000 http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006524.html <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><p>It makes me sad because I end up thinking about how Yahoo! Finance has stagnated for a long time. It never really recovered from the pain of the dotcom crash. So many of my old Finance coworkers have either left the company or moved on to other groups (several moved into Search last year). Heck, I encouraged many of them to get out!</p> <p>There was a lack of leadership and, even more importantly, a serious <strong>LACK OF VISION</strong>. It really disappointed me.</p></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/leadership' rel='tag'>leadership</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/vision' rel='tag'>vision</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/yahoo' rel='tag'>yahoo</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:16:40 -0000 http://code.google.com/p/hypertable <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/hypertable' rel='tag'>hypertable</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:55:52 -0000 http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/1820 <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">Trying stuff is cheaper than deciding whether to try it.</div></p><p><div class="content">Don't overplan something. Just do it half-assed to start with, then throw more people at it to fix it if it works. Worked for every successful Google project from AdWords to Google Maps.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:30:53 -0000 http://googlechinablog.com/2006/04/blog-post.html <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/math' rel='tag'>math</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/statistics' rel='tag'>statistics</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:13:34 -0000 http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2005/pulpit_20051117_000873.html <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">Play to your strengths. That's the key to success in any industry. This is the week I promised to explain where I think Google is headed, and playing to the company's strengths is key if they are going to do what I think, which is effectively take over the Internet. Oh they won't steal it or strong-arm us. They'll seduce us into giving it to them. And I am not at all sure that's a bad thing.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/future' rel='tag'>future</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:26:30 -0000 http://www.aboutnico.be/index.php/google-analytics-air-beta-sign-up <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/aAirTag' rel='tag'>aAirTag</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/analytics' rel='tag'>analytics</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:10:56 -0000 http://www.videodl.org/ <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/download' rel='tag'>download</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/video' rel='tag'>video</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:12:37 -0000 http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/06/25/GoogleScalabilityConferenceTripReportMapReduceBigTableAndOtherDistributedSystemAbstractionsForHandlingLargeDatasets.aspx <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/scalability' rel='tag'>scalability</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:03:32 -0000 http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/07/google-scalability-conference-talks.html <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/scalability' rel='tag'>scalability</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/video' rel='tag'>video</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:32:23 -0000 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/05/google-pagerank-what-do-we-really-know-about-it <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/pagerank' rel='tag'>pagerank</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/pr' rel='tag'>pr</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/seo' rel='tag'>seo</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:17:51 -0000 http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-28-n59.html <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/analytics' rel='tag'>analytics</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/tips' rel='tag'>tips</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Mon, 28 May 2007 22:40:04 -0000 http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/ <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/webmaster' rel='tag'>webmaster</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:27:55 -0000 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/04/mag_schmidt_trans <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">Well, essentially, we do all of the software. So the computers that we're running start off with Linux as the base, but after that it's really custom software to move all the data around. The Web services, all the identity management, all of the database activities, all of the indexing, all the searching, all the ranking, all that kind of stuff in the cloud we do ourselves. This is a great core competency of the company.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/ceo' rel='tag'>ceo</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/google' rel='tag'>google</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/interview' rel='tag'>interview</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:22:16 -0000 60