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“Nearly every start-up working in payments is simply creating a new front end for your credit card…. They all seem new and shiny, and we all marvel at the possibility that they could become the next wave in paying for stuff, but none of them could work without credit cards.”
Charles Dickens’ birthday marks first Google Doodle as promotional vehicle
“The result of this consolidation that gives me cause for concern is the fundamental integration of my entire digital life. When you start pulling together email data with browser data, that really begins to paint a near-complete picture of a life lived on the internet. It’s not just search terms, not just circles of friends. It’s every last digital scrap of me.”
The Gmail Logo Was Designed the Night Before Gmail Launched
“I had never noticed before how the G of Gmail was such a different style than the rest of the logo, but now that I’ve focused on it, that G is always going to stick out, the serif-laden man among his serif-less friends.”
“When using its algorithmic wizardry to deeply integrate social information into its search experience, it behooves Google to avoid even a whiff of bias. With SPYW, though, the odor is unmistakable.”
“This potentially marks a real transformation to the way we have looked for information on the web, one with real winners and losers. It also signals a real danger to the balance of power between users and megacompanies. We are increasingly moving from a bottom-up web, where users vote with their links, keyboards and their clicks to show what’s relevant to them, to a top-down web where that’s doubly or triply mediated by browsers, search engines and social networks.
This could be how the web dies: not with a sudden migration to bespoke client apps, but by drifting into a silo so big that most of us don’t even notice that anything has changed at all.”
![Has Google Popped the Filter Bubble? | Wired.com
“Google blog: We’re also introducing a prominent new toggle… where you can see what your search results look like without personal content. With a single click, you can see an unpersonalized view of search results.
This seems to address the complaint known as The Filter Bubble [which] contends that when internet providers personalize their services, people wind up seeing only what those providers think they want to see — stuff in their comfort zone… things they already agree with or are familiar with.”](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxof9mqzZX1qzsvqyo1_500.jpg)
Has Google Popped the Filter Bubble? | Wired.com
“Google blog: We’re also introducing a prominent new toggle… where you can see what your search results look like without personal content. With a single click, you can see an unpersonalized view of search results.
This seems to address the complaint known as The Filter Bubble [which] contends that when internet providers personalize their services, people wind up seeing only what those providers think they want to see — stuff in their comfort zone… things they already agree with or are familiar with.”
“We are becoming helpless collateral casualties in the war between Google and Facebook.”
John Perry Barlow, Co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation | Google’s Social Move Attracts Critics
What Went Wrong With Gmail? - The Atlantic
“Here’s the problem. See that big text box in which I type hundreds of emails per week? Well, it is obscured by chat windows that I use thousands of times per week. The two basic ways that I communicate are in direct conflict with each other… Which leads me to the key question: what happened, Google?”
In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed Bay Area location where robots run free, the future is being imagined.
It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. Your robot could go to the office while you stay home in your pajamas. And you could, perhaps, take an elevator to outer space.
