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  • Rustic eco chic in the Facebook cafeteria

    Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The Masters Of Rustic Chic By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Roman & Williams has created nostalgic interiors that most others can only emulate. Here’s the lunchroom they created with Facebook. Google ruined every­thing. Microsoft gave out free soft drinks, but Google let employ­ees eat gourmet food for… RT @FastCoDesign: Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The…

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  • Get a good Gmail Username

    How to Get the Gmail Address You Want Chelsea Stark, mashable.com 1. Display Density 2. Button Labels 3. No Markers 4. Stars 5. Move Icons 6. Labels 7. Circles 8. High Contrast 9. Google Docs Gadget 10. Right-Side Chat 11. Undo Send http://flip.it/MSOYV Related articles Infographic: The Evolution of Google’s Gmail (moneymakingblog101.wordpress.com) Latest Google service…

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  • Google designers tasked to revamp search experience

    How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search By Sarah Kessler, fastcodesign.com Google Search’s designers are treating what was once just an ugly list of links like a software application. On the same day that Larry Page became Google’s CEO for the sec­ond time, he ordered a redesign of all its prod­ucts. Which came as a……

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  • Copyright law on the digital frontier

    Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Use of Google’s take­down tool for search results has grown ten­fold in the past six months, the com­pa­ny reports. When it start­ed pub­licly post­ing take­down notices in late May, around 250,000 requests a week went…

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  • Google knowledge graph on drugs

    Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs by Casey Newton, cnet.com Google’s evolv­ing data­base of the rela­tion­ships between peo­ple, places and things gets a new dose of med­i­cine. Search­ing for infor­ma­tion about med­i­cine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs inject­ed into your search… http://flip.it/tRy2u Related articles Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)…

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  • Interactive Fractal Tree of Life

    Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth. From pro­to­zoans to peo­ple, there is a lot of life on this plan­et, and it’s all con­nect­ed to a com­mon ances­tor from which every­thing…

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  • How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing

    Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com Mak­ing my stu­dents switch from MS Word to Google Drive not only elim­i­nat­ed the headache of incom­pat­i­ble ver­sions and big email attach­ments. It’s made them bet­ter writ­ers. When I start­ed teach­ing col­lege writ­ing and jour­nal­ism… http://flpbd.it/uFfgR How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing Related articles Google Drive – Student ePortfolios…

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  • It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit

    It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com An ambitious company is attempting to use thermal cameras attached to cars to capture images of how every building in America is wasting energy. It’s the Google Maps for home effi­cien­cy. At the rate of two to three mil­lion build­ings per mont… http://flpbd.it/LDbMq…

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  • Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout

    Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout On Air, 2pm Pacific (5pm Eastern) By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com All things food and bev­er­age is the sub­ject of today’s Google Hang­out at 2pm PDT (5pm EDT), as MAKE debuts a new bimonth­ly Hang­out on Air. Look for these hang­outs to cover the wide world of food and drink…

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  • How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google without going mad

    How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google with Minimal Fuss. Related articles Apple extends iCloud storage following downgrade glitch (reviews.cnet.com) How to share documents with iCloud (macworld.com) Apple Gives Previous MobileMe Users An Extra Year Of iCloud Storage (geeky-gadgets.com) Apple extends iCloud storage upgrade for MobileMe users another year (engadget.com) iCloud.com Still…

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  • Fat-wallet and other hot deals sites compared

    One thing  I learned when working in e-commerce is that before buying anything online or off you should Google it and see what deals are available at hot deals sites like Fat-wallet. Here is a review of the top deals sites: http://hot-deals-review.toptenreviews.com Related articles Mobile wallet changes won’t come until incentives do as well (lexingtonlaw.com)…

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  • Culturomics: hard + soft science using the Ngram viewer

    I’ve been playing around with the new Google N Gram viewer and the emerging field of culturomics, the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture. It’s interesting to see that Timothy was more common in 1920 and that information has grown faster than knowledge  In 500 Billion Words, a New…

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