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Google's Slideshow of Interesting Things
Kilrah_il writes "Google's Creative Labs came out with a slideshow of interesting things on the web. In the slideshow you will find 'a lot of interesting HTML5 apps, iPhone apps, visualization tools, 3D projections, art projects, creative YouTube videos, crowdsourcing services and many other interesting things.' It's basically a collection of fascinating little projects people have made and then distributed to the internet at large. Guaranteed to ruin your productivity for today. You can view it with Google Docs."
Whats wrong with a list?
No, I can't view it with Google Docs. Apparently it requires some plugin or a cutting edge browser (but not too far off the beaten path). What the hell is wrong with people? This is content which would work perfectly fine with completely static web pages. Massive FAIL, Google.
ok google is fan of the internet and it look like they have tried stumple'upon.
Move along there is nothing to see.
Oh dear we seem to have broke Google, ah well back to work then ;-)
... Google it?
Check out my novel.
isn't google one of the bigger html5 fanboys?
Google aren't doing anything much here. It's just another bunch of stuff designed to hook your attention and keep them at the top of the eyeball pile. If it's not that they're trying to harvest out clicks or datamine our stuff. This sort of crap gets boring fast. Instead of Google trying to look cool can they just admit they're a utility and get on with doing their job? In fact, I'm curious to know what sort of regulatory regime we should have around search and what other maybe better alternatives are out there.
they started with a list first
where is the list?
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These documents are colaborative. This means any change and status are redistributed in a pseudo-P2P network. ... the browser can't, and the systems on google servers seems not designed for that. ....
Probably the system can work optimally with 30 persons "editing" the same document. But 15000 or whatever is the number of slashdotters,
Wen It was the last time you needed to have real time cooperative editing of a document with other 15.000 dudes?
Theres wikipedia, but thats not realtime, and at most 2 persons are editing the same page,
-Woof woof woof!
If everything has a sensor on it, and systems are talking to each other and making the entire system smarter and more efficient, can't we just replace people with machines to do our day-to-day mundane tasks in our jobs? This would free up time to concentrate on more important things, and giving us more free time.
I, for one, welcome Google helping me make my coffee, drive my car, navigate to my work, send me meeting reminders and read and filter my email...all before I even step in the office or the home-office.
Just don't let Google get too good at it or we will be competing with machines for our careers.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
On the Google site itself:
Anonymous said...
Superficial drivel - All is well in Googlistan
This link works (for now): https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Abmo0iWBO2gEZGY3cnc3dnpfMzM4Y3o2bmduZDY&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
Seems a little amateurish for an official Google presentation, though.
I for one am particularly impressed by the artists featured on page 44.
:D
Such vision, such beautiful artworks
Andrew
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