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"Google, which has been investing in companies and doing research of its own to produce affordable renewable energy, wants to cut the cost of making heliostats, the fields of mirrors that track the sun by at least a factor of two, "ideally a factor of three or four." The costs of constructing these fields are often significant, and enough to deter investors."

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Uh oh - another Facebook Beacon scenario in the making. This article is getting a LOT of heated commentary. This has to be the biggest stumble Google has made in the social realm, and perhaps in all of their online activities.

Interestingly, one person mentions that their Gmail account in the UK does not have the default-on options. Lines up with what we're finding the in the Enterprise 2.0 EU Privacy report we're publishing shortly. Personal/social data in the EU is tricky business.

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In chasing ever increasing sources of ad revenue, is Google going too far?

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A mini-uprising occured when it was announced that Google was acquiring AppJey (makers of EtherPad). With any luck, Wave will take the best of what EtherPad offered, and fold within Wave. Personally, I prefered EtherPad for it's simplicity, speed, and lack of a walled garden/beta/preview - but of course that will change over time as Wave becomes fully public.

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Interesting ideas - having a company now that is all about architecture (of a different kind than would be built by cardboard), of course I think about architecture and re-usable building blocks more than ever. Neat tweak on Legos, Cuboro, Megablocks, Lincoln Logs and other playful architectural elements. They're Bloxes, originally created by the venerable Jef Raskin of Apple fame.

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"A few months ago, the Google Open Source team had an offsite in our Chicago office, and we were looking for something fun, social, and geeky for the teams to do during informal discussions. Before that, my colleague Aza had shown me a cool new thing that he was making called Bloxes -- interlocking cardboard boxes that were something like giant legos that connected on all six sides. They were actually invented by Aza's father, Jef Raskin (who started the Macintosh project at Apple), and were originally intended to be used to build flexible workspaces (like easily morphable cubicles). Having seen some samples of what you could build with them, I thought it would be fun to order a bunch of Bloxes for the team to build things out of while sitting around chatting and brainstorming."

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Google Moderator is (roughly) an open innovation concept. Apparently it's used internally in Google to surface up the questions that employees would like to have answered, and the crowd votes up or down those that should be prioritized. To my knowledge, there is no downstream process - so this is a "fuzzy front end"-only offering, but an interesting extension of the free services Google is rolling out.

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Interesting collection of ways to access Gmail - mobile, secure, without javascript, etc..

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Findability of a different sort - Google Audio Indexing (or GAUDI - not the architect, nor the Alan Parsons album) is up and running in the Google Labs, enabling text-based search of political videos on YouTube. Again, more than one way to approach findab

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Lengthy "comic book" done by Scott McCloud (don't know him? Get thee to Amazon!) describing what Google Chrome is, and what they're trying to do. Very nicely done. Too bad Chrome is getting nailed with bugs and security issues right out of the bin (and no

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Well, here's another interesting content authenticity story. Seems that Viacom wants to look at ALL of the traffic on YouTube, including private videos, to determine how much of their intellectual property has been violated. I'm no lawyer, but seems to me

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Jon Brodkin once again has a great article summarizing current research on search and Findability, and referencing some of our early findings. Thanks Jon!

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Interesting, and good point - current Computer Science majors (and even practicing/working CS graduates) need to get comfortable with the idea of having access to huge amounts of computing power. Google is jumping ahead with an education program to do jus

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The OpenSocial universe is a rapid attractor... keep an eye on this.

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Hear from Apple, Google, Turner Broadcasting, the author of 'Permanent Innovation', SAIC, Intel, on both horizontal and vertical applications and approaches to Innovation Management

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Experimenting with Google Base - cross-listing/posting Podcasts through this freeform database, to see who is using it, and what effect it has on traffic to the blog and podcasts.

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an OS X app to use gMail as a file share via this gDisk.app - an alternative to iDisk, sort of.

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has a 30 day trial, use to track google, e-mail, etc.

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ichat tips for interfacing with google talk - which isn't currently supported on OS X

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