BlogCadre - google

Google Gooooooooooal! World Cup Easter Egg

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:57:22 +0000

Google is getting excited for the 2010 World Cup. Search for 'World Cup' and get this Google Gooooooooooal! Easter Egg. [via Gizmodo]

Google Redesign

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:34:42 +0000

For some reason, one of my browsers decided to be the recipient of a Google redesign today. It looks like they haven’t rolled this out to everyone, but for what it’s worth, here’s how my internet pipes now look.

Above is the homepage. The recent AJAX resolve still applies, but the whole design has had a refresh. It was sparse to begin with, but it now seems even whiter, with flashy new buttons.

There's also a new logo. No longer anchored to the site by it's former drop shadow, it now pops off the page right into your lap.

But wait! There's more!

Daily Geek News RoundUp, March 12, 2010

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:03:16 +0000

The iPad: A Pre-Order Preview - Mashable

The Litanies of iPad: Resistance or Submission - Gizmodo

New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle - Yahoo! News

You Are a Tamagotchi: Turning Your Health Into a Game - Wired Science

China Warns Google Again After C.E.O.'s Remarks - NYTimes.com

Daily Geek News RoundUp, Feb. 17, 2010

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:58:42 +0000

Microsoft Outlook to Add MySpace and Facebook Integration - Mashable

CEO Eric Schmidt at World Mobile Congress: Google's Future is in the Enterprise - ReadWriteEnterprise

Nearly 75 Million People Visited Twitter's Site In January (comScore) - TechCrunch

More leaked documents reveal details of secret copyright treaty negotiations - Boing Boing

Windows Phone 7 Series: everything you ever wanted to know - Engadget

Concrete Egg Carton - Phillip Torrone

Daily Geek News RoundUp, Feb. 11, 2010

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:01:24 +0000

Google to Acquire Social Search Startup Aardvark - Mashable

Bacon or Beer Can? - Link

Toy Story 3 Official Movie Trailers - iTunes

'Metropolis' redux - Variety

Meat the iPhone Sausage Stylus - Popular Science

The Shining Cuckoo Clock - Chris Dimino

Google's Next Step in Speeding Up the web: The YouTube Speed Dashboard - Mashable

Daily Geek News RoundUp, Dec. 7, 2009

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:07:26 +0000

5 Fabulous New Features Google Unveiled Today - ReadWriteWeb

Life On Wheels... film portrays the history of skateboarding over 20 years in Brazil [via BZalasky] - Link

Boxee and D-Link Partner For Boxee Box - Mashable

Adrianne Curry: I Love To Play 'World Of Warcraft' Naked And Stoned - The Huffington Post

The TV Show - Laughing Squid

Who Knew The Seinfeld Theme Worked As A Mating Call: The Amazing Lyrebird - Nerd Salad

Vaporware 2009: A Call for Submissions - Wired

Pandora Is Coming to Your Car - GigaOM

Tiniest Transistor Ever Runs Electric Current through a Single Atom - Popular Science

Everything We Know About the JooJoo (AKA Crunchpad) Tablet So Far - Gizmodo

Daily Geek News RoundUp, Dec. 2, 2009

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:51:57 +0000

Bing Maps Out Your Tweets with Revamped Bing Maps - Mashable

Local News Commits a Twitter-Induced Billboard FAIL - SWITCHED

Colorful iPhone icon pillows - Boing Boing

Tiger Woods and the Destruction of Personal Privacy - Mashable

12 Days of Action Figures - Link

Diggs New Read/Write API Launches Today: Will Make Content Sharing Easier - ReadWriteWeb

Facebook CEO: Prepare for Some Big Privacy Changes - Mashable

Google Analytics Launches Asynchronous Tracking - Google Code Blog

The CIA Manual of Trickery And Deception - Buzzfeed

Daily Geek News RoundUp, Nov. 19, 2009

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:08:07 +0000

Apple Tablet delayed, analysts cast haruspex over chinese shipping manifests - Boing Boing

Nerd Alert: Guy Dances to Wii Channel Music - Nerd Salad

Local dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years - City Pages

YouTube Videos Get Automatic Captions - ReadWriteWeb

Roboticists Want to Make You an Electric Car Customized for Your Personal Commute - Popular Science

Clients From Hell [blog]

Dell lets loose Studio 17 laptop with multitouch display - Engadget

Now You Can Tell Twitter Where You Are - Mashable

Guy mounts coffee cup on car roof, tweets about peoples' reactions - Boing Boing

Google Reveals Details of Chrome OS [Pictures and Video] - Mashable

Postal Service Limits Letter to Santa Program - NPR

Tim Burton releases custom iPhone and Macbook skins to protect your gear and express your style [via The Foundation] - GelaSkins

American Airlines launches online widget to sniff out WiFi-equipped flights - Engadget

Autocomplete Me

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:09:54 +0000

Ever google about some boring topic and Google's autocomplete comes up with something so much more interesting or just plain weird? Take a gander at Autocomplete Me and see what other funny or strange autocompletes people have found.

How do you like my autocomplete above? I can't decide if i like "I like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur" better or "i like to think of jesus as a mischievous badger." It's a toss-up.

Daily Geek News RoundUp, Nov. 17, 2009

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:29:29 +0000

Twitter and Facebook Launch on the Xbox 360 - Mashable

Seesmic Goes Native: Launches Windows-Only Twitter Client - Read Write Web

Bing Captures Almost 10 Percent Search Share In U.S. - TechCrunch

AT&T's BlackBerry Bold 9700 starts shipping out to top bananas - Engadget

Google's "Image Swirl" Provides a Dynamic Search Interface for Online Picture Seekers - Popular Science

Time To Put The Wizard Hat Back On And Call The Gang: Dungeons & Dragons Gets Way Modern With Touch Screen - Nerd Salad

56 of the Most HIlarious and Amazing Modern Warfare 2 Easter Eggs You Will Ever See - Gizmodo

Adobe Launches Flash Player 10.1, AIR 2 Betas - PCMag

Google's AdMob Launches Interactive Video Ads on iPhone - Mashable

WWIII Propaganda Posters for the New Millennium

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:28:38 +0000

Check out these WWIII propaganda posters designed by Brian Lane Winfield Moore.

Link [via Laughing Squid]

What keywords do countries google the most?

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:54:05 +0000

What keywords do internet users google the most? Here is a list of commonly searched keywords by country*:

"sex" - Egypt, India, Turkey
"gay" - Chile, Mexico, Colombia
"Hitler" and "Nazi" - Chile, Australia, United Kingdom
"Jihad" - Morocco, Indonesia, Pakistan
"Terrorism" - Pakistan, Philippines, Australia
"Hangover" - Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
"Burrito" - United States, Argentina, Canada
"Iraq" - United States, Australia, Canada
"Taliban" - Pakistan, Australia, Canada
"Tom Cruise" - Canada, United States, Australia
"Britney Spears" - Mexico, Venezuela, Canada
"Homosexual" - Phililppines, Chile, Venezuela
"Love" - Phililppines, Australia, United States
"Botox" - Australia, United States, United Kingdom
"Viagra" - Italy, United Kingdom, Germany
"Car bomb" - Australia, United States, Canada
"Marijuana" - Canada, United States, Australia

(*The countries are listed from first to third.) Link. [via MonkeyFilter]

What Google Won't Find

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:42:17 +0000

Scott Aaronson spoke at Google Cambridge a month ago on the topic of quantum computers, the limits imposed by physics, and search. His position is that there are probably fundamental physical limits to the problem of search, much like the limits to cpu speed or hard drive density. In fact, the latter provide a really nice illustration:

In particular, one of the few things physicists think they know about quantum gravity — one of the few things both the string theorists and their critics largely agree on — is that, at the so-called “Planck scale” of about 10^-33 centimeters or 10^-43 seconds, our usual notions of space and time are going to break down. As one manifestation of this, if you tried to build a clock that ticked more than about 10⁴³ times per second, that clock would use so much energy that it would collapse to a black hole. Ditto for a computer that performed more than about 10⁴³ operations per second, or for a hard disk that stored more than about 10⁶⁹ bits per square meter of surface area. (Together with the finiteness of the speed of light and the exponential expansion of the universe, this implies that, contrary to what you might have thought, there is a fundamental physical limit on how much disk space Gmail will ever be able to offer its subscribers…)

--more after the break--

Gmail: A Behind the Scenes Video

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:33:51 +0000

Gmail: A Behind the Scenes Video is a collaborative video in which the folks over at Google asked its users to help them imagine how an email message travels around the world. You can read more about the project over at the Official Gmail Blog.

Google Baby

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:56:08 +0000

Jason and I are expecting our second baby boy and have not yet come up with a name for the little guy. I know there are a few names that we DO NOT like -- "Metallica", "4real", "Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K", and "Google".

Elias and Carol Kai named their baby boy "Oliver Google Kai". It's not a surprise that the father is a Search Engine Marketing Specialist.

[via Neatorama]