Google To Change Gmail, Add "Normal Email" Option Instead Of Just "Conversations"

Google To Change Gmail, Add "Normal Email" Option Instead Of Just "Conversations": "Google is planning to offer a standard email option in Gmail in the next few months, two executives at the company say."

Strawberry levitating in an intense magnetic field

Even non-magnetic materials exhibit magnetic behaviour under the influence of a magnetic field. This property, known as diamagnetism is actually a kind of anti-magnetism because the induced field opposes the surrounding field and repels both poles. Diamagnetism is usually very weak but in a field of sufficient strength (10 Tesla or more) it is sufficient to cause small objects to levitate.

Product Overview - Google Storage for Developers - Google Code

Product Overview - Google Storage for Developers - Google Code: "Google Storage for Developers is a new service for developers to store and access data in Google's cloud. It offers developers direct access to Google's scalable storage and networking infrastructure as well as powerful authentication and data sharing mechanisms.
Access to the new service is by invitation to U.S. developers only at this time."

Google Font Directory

Google Font Directory: "The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.

View font details to get the code needed to embed the font on your web site. Please also visit our quick start guide and FAQ page. For more help and suggestions, use our moderator page"

Quick Tip: How to Target IE6, IE7, and IE8 Uniquely with 4 Characters | Nettuts

Quick Tip: How to Target IE6, IE7, and IE8 Uniquely with 4 Characters | Nettuts:

This is a very simple hack to target specific CSS quirks of individual versions of IE. Pity this crap is still being thought about but I thought this one had a simple elegance if used sparingly. I have seen this technique used around and about in CSS but I ddin't understand what it was for until now.

div {

color: red; /* all browsers */

color : green\9; /* IE8 and below */

*color : yellow; /* IE7 and below */

_color : blue; /* IE6 and below */

}

note: _property and -property both work for targeting IE6 and below.

Clifford Stoll: Why Web Won't Be Nirvana - Newsweek.com

Of course things did suck back then but anyone with a brain could see it's potential.

Except perhaps...

Clifford Stoll: Why Web Won't Be Nirvana - Newsweek.com:

Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn't, and will never be, nirvana

By Clifford Stoll | NEWSWEEK

From the magazine issue dated Feb 27, 1995

"What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading. Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them--one's a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn't work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, 'Too many connectios, try again later.'"

Using the Posterous Bookmarklet - Posterous Help

Select text, video, music or photos from any web page and post it instantly to your posterous, just by clicking a special bookmark.

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Integrating Posterous and Google Buzz - The Official Posterous Posterous

There's definitely been a lot of interest around integrating Posterous and Google Buzz. Right now, they don't have an API that would allow us to make Google Buzz a fully-featured autopost site, but here's a simple way to get posts from your RSS feed into Google Buzz today.

Step 1: Add a link to your Google Profile inside your Posterous bio

To let Google know that your Posterous is associated with your Google profile, just cut / paste the following link into your bio on Posterous, replacing "YOURPROFILE" with your actual profile address, then save it:

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1. <a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/YOURPROFILE" rel="me">My Google Profile</a>   

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Step 2: Add a link to your public Google profile page

Visit your Google Profile, then add a link to your Posterous page. Make sure that the page is designated as a profile page:

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Step 3 (optional):  Force Google to recrawl your webpage

Use the Social Graph API tool to force Google to recrawl your page. This step is optional; if you choose not to do this, you'll have to wait until Google re-crawls your site.

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Step 4: Add Posterous into Google Buzz

After this, your Posterous site will be available to as a "Connected Site" on Google Buzz:

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Diary Of An x264 Developer � Flash, Google, VP8, and the future of internet video

Diary Of An x264 Developer � Flash, Google, VP8, and the future of internet video:

Very interesting discussion of the issues facing video over the web, the future of Flash and the meaning of Google's acquistion of On2 and its VP8 codec.

"The internet has been filled for quite some time with an enormous number of blog posts complaining about how Flash sucks–so much that it’s sounding as if the entire internet is crying wolf.� But, of course, despite the incessant complaining, they’re right: Flash has terrible performance on anything other than Windows x86 and Adobe doesn’t seem to care at all.� But rather than repeat this ad nauseum, let’s be a bit more intellectual and try to figure out what happened."

Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine

Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine: "That’s where the contextual signals come in. All search engines incorporate them, but none has added as many or made use of them as skillfully as Google has. PageRank itself is a signal, an attribute of a Web page (in this case, its importance relative to the rest of the Web) that can be used to help determine relevance. Some of the signals now seem obvious. Early on, Google’s algorithm gave special consideration to the title on a Web page — clearly an important signal for determining relevance. Another key technique exploited anchor text, the words that make up the actual hyperlink connecting one page to another. As a result, “when you did a search, the right page would come up, even if the page didn’t include the actual words you were searching for,” says Scott Hassan, an early Google architect who worked with Page and Brin at Stanford. “That was pretty cool.” Later signals included attributes like freshness (for certain queries, pages created more recently may be more valuable than older ones) and location (Google knows the rough geographic coordinates of searchers and favors local results). The search engine currently uses more than 200 signals to help rank its results."

Google's DoubleClick for Publishers API - Google Code

Google's DoubleClick for Publishers API - Google Code: "Google's DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) API lets developers build applications that interact directly with Google's next-generation display advertising platform. With these applications, publishers and third parties can manage inventory, create orders, pull reports, and more. Here are some possible applications you could build with the API:
Create a self-service ad ordering page on your site where advertisers can come to create an order and upload creatives.
Integrate your content management system with your inventory structure so updates in your content management system update your inventory.
Connect your billing system with our reporting data to automate invoicing of your advertisers."

Google Ad Manager Blog: The next generation of Google Ad Manager

Google Ad Manager Blog: The next generation of Google Ad Manager: "Since Google's acquisition of DoubleClick in March of 2008, we've been focused on combining the knowledge and resources of our companies, as well as your feedback, to improve ad serving for publishers of all sizes. Over the past year, you may have noticed some early fruits of this labor in Google Ad Manager, including the new Inventory and Admin tabs. Today, we announced the launch of our next generation publisher ad serving platform, the new DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) from Google, which further leverages the combined strengths of Google and DoubleClick."

Report: Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent of all exploits for 2009 | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

Report: Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent of all exploits for 2009 | Zero Day
| ZDNet.com: "A newly released report shows that based on more than a trillion Web requests processed in 2009, the use of malicious PDF files exploiting flaws in Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat not only outpaced the use of Flash exploits, but also, grew to 80% of all exploits the company encountered throughout the year."

Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be Your ID.

Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be Your ID.: "...something everyone on the web knows is their email address. And they’re conditioned by services like Google and Facebook to use it as their identifier. The problem with it has been that it’s just a string of text, nothing more. You cannot attach information to it to let others know a bit more about you — something vital for true identification. Then idea behind WebFinger is that you should be able to attach any information you choose to your email address."

EOF - The Google Exposure | Linux Journal

EOF - The Google Exposure | Linux Journal: "Advertising is a bubble. If that's a true statement, Google is a bubble too. And if that's true, many of the goods we take for granted on the Web are at risk."

My School site fails on first morning of operation

My School site fails on first morning of operation: "Education Minister Julia Gillard said My School was designed to take 1.7 million hits a day, 2350 hits a second, and that the problems were caused by 'huge demand'.

'The experts at our authority have done everything they can. There are nine servers backing this website up.'"

1.7 million hits per day is actually equivalent to 20 hits per second. I hope they don't think that is all they can get out of nine servers.

HTML5 video and codecs

HTML5 video and codecs: "Recently, Vimeo and YouTube announced that they were moving to support the HTML5 video tag, as DailyMotion did last summer. This is an important step in making video a first-class citizen of the modern web, and that is great news. Unlike DailyMotion, however, Vimeo and YouTube chose to rely on the patented H.264 video encoding, rather than an unencumbered encoding like Ogg Theora. This means that the pages on those sites will not work with Firefox."

There are patent licensing issues for video encoders and distributors that continue to make this area a challenge.

More on video freedom and mozilla.
H.264 Royalties: what you need to know
The H.264 Licensing Labyrinth

Analysis of 32 million breached passwords

Analysis of 32 million breached passwords: "Imperva released a study analyzing 32 million passwords exposed in the Rockyou.com breach. The data provides a unique glimpse into the way that users select passwords and an opportunity to evaluate the true strength of these as a security mechanism."

Run IT as a business -- why that's a train wreck waiting to happen

Run IT as a business -- why that's a train wreck waiting to happen: "When IT runs as a business, it 'sells' software that 'meets requirements' to its 'internal customers.' Because its product is software, it has no choice -- it has to ask the wrong question: 'What do you need the software to do?'

Asking business managers to describe what software is supposed to do is the unavoidable consequence of a relationship in which IT's job ends with delivering software to its internal customers -- in which projects are considered successful when software is installed, users are trained in its operation, and using it to improve the business is someone else's problem.

Companies that have integrated IT and no internal customers define success differently.

Instead of asking what the software should do, they start by asking how their business counterparts run their operations now, what are their biggest problems, and how they want to run things differently and better in the future.

IT's job is to recommend better ways to operate, using technical capabilities business managers might not even know are possible.

These enlightened companies don't have IT projects -- they have business change projects that aren't done until the planned business change has been accomplished, and users are trained, not in how to operate software, but in how to do their redesigned jobs using the new software."