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A Simple App Engine Picture API

Making a micro web service for processing and resizing images.

On The Shoulders of Giants

New research finds that the historical background of Google’s PageRank algorithm is richer than previously suspected.

Complacence Will Destroy You

Advice from the hacked (via). The raging reality of having your GMail account stolen: What matters more for your immediate concerns, entropy is out to get you and entropy is going to win.…

Google Web Authoring Survey

Google have released a bunch of high level statistics from a recent survey (SVG capable browser required), looking at the relative frequency of HTML elements across more than a billion web documents.…

The Shock of the Now

Are Google and Facebook obliterating the web?

Data or Design?

“Every time we went down the ‘wrong’ path, we learned something concrete — if not about software than at least about people”

Google set to grab mass election audience

And of course, it's not just record companies on the verge of extinction. With Australia Votes, Google is flexing its capability to move into the online media space traditionally dominated by…

Google and Link Relationships

Google is based on the concept of the web as a gigantic directed graph. Edges in this graph are determined by directional hyperlinks between web pages. How many of us understand how the usage of rel…

Changing The Future of Reading

Understanding the Google Books Settlement.

Linking 2D maps and 3D reality

How can we close the perceptional gap that lies between two dimensional maps and the surrounding three dimensional reality? Enkin is a technology aimed at the Google Android platform that…

Passive Consumers?

What is Yahoo! doing? That's the question asked by Greg Yardley, responding to recent talk about a pyramid of content creation, which he argues, shows how Yahoo's design decisions are being pushed…