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Incredible -- there's an iPod on Google Maps.
Apparently, this image has been constructed over the course of two years on an abandoned mineral mine somewhere in western Australia... a mine Steve Jobs won during a poker game with the late publishing/ gaming tycoon Kerry Packer. [Thanks Miel.]
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Bram Moolenaar, the creator of Linux text editor Vim (short for Vi Improved), is now working at Google Zurich. Bram announced this on Friday in the Vimannounce Yahoo Group. [Thanks Manoj Nahar, Ionut Alex. Chitu.]
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Moon Hyungmin creates strangely peaceful images of cities by removing all text and logos from the photos (this is from the On Difference exhibition in Stuttgart).
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USA Today has an article on the PostSecret blog:
"It started out as Warren's temporary community art project. Now it's where thousands of Americans go to anonymously post their deepest secrets, and where millions of Americans go to read them. Secret-tellers -- call them "confessors" -- send their secrets to his home here in suburban Washington, D.C., on postcards they decorate themselves. Warren reads every one and picks 10 to 20 to post on his blog every Sunday."
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BusinessWeek tells what happened with Google Print ads (my emphasis):
"In February, Google auctioned off ad space it had purchased in about two dozen magazines, from Martha Stewart Living to Road & Track. (...)
The tepid demand became evident in some of the winning bids, which were recognized earlier this month. Nicholas Longo, CEO of CoffeeCup Software, which makes tools for creating Web sites, wound up paying just $4,000 for each of three half-page ads in Martha Stewart Living. It was a long shot: The magazine's rate card pegs the price ...
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ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind calls DRM (Digital Rights Management) a "cancerous technology" that ought to be labeled CRAP (Content Restriction, Annulment and Protection). I hope this buzzword catches on... [Via Digg.]
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Google has launched an Google AdSense group. A user by the name of AdSensePro is giving official answers. Somehow, even these official Google groups tend to get spammed after a while with no one cleaning up... [Via Search Engine Watch.]
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Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny says Google Finance makes him a bit sad... because he was working on the original Yahoo Finance, which has been stagnating for a long time. Now Google Finance comes along with a bunch of features the Yahoo team talked about for years (like blog integration, or a news event overlay) -- with some of them even making it to the prototype stage, but not beyond.
But Jeremy says there's a light at the end of the tunnel:
"All hope is not lost. Unlike a small number of Google product launches, this one didn't blow the doors off. It's no Gmail or Google Maps. Yahoo! Finan...
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Do you want to see the Google "green bars" layout experiment that's being shown to random searchers for quite a while now? Simply copy and paste this link into your browser address bar when you're on Google.com, reload the page, and then search for something. The result should now appear as in the screenshot above.
[Via Digg.]
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Digital Age asks Rebecca Mackinnon and Timothy Wu, "Did Google sell out in China?" [Thanks Pd.]
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Justin Pfister has been accepted into Google's "Gmail for your domain" program and sends along screenshots:
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Recently I mentioned a (homophobic) video that was apparently removed after being uploaded to Google Video. Indeed Google confirmed this, telling me:
"Google Video's policy disallows the use of material that may promote hatred or advocate against any group. The video we removed contained content that violated this policy. We removed it to ensure that Google Video is consistent with Google's policies and to ensure a high-quality service for users."
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Shimon Sandler provides a quick how-to for getting your "GeoAds" on Google Maps.
More about Google Local ads.
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German Dr. Web shows off the big beta parade. [Thanks Michael.]
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Google Mars seems to be broken, DPNeal notices. All I get when accessing it is a big gray map. (Maybe some alien gov't requested this to be censored?)
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