It seems Google is making another step into the bookmarking userspace; if you go to the Search History page (you’ll need a Google account — you have one of those, though… right?), you can find a Bookmarklet that you can drag to the browser’s link bar, and use it just like you’d use the similar bookmarklets from del.icio.us or ma.gnolia.
Far from being a sinister plan to crush the little guys, this does seem, to me, to fit in with Google mission statement: organizing the world’s information and making it easily accessible.[1] What could be easier than a way to quickly find your favorite pages?
Hat tip to Google Blogoscoped for this item.
[1] That I can recite a close paraphrase of Google mission statement without having to look it up is a testament either to Google’s marketing, or my need to find another hobby. Maybe both.
I‘m sure this is old news to everyone else, but I completely stopped visiting Digg.com a few months back, so I haven’t noticed. I just haven’t visited at all, I just got fed up by it after awhile. (I know, I know — “stop complaining.” Well, I did, and I stopped visiting, too.)
I stopped by today to see if they were engaging in any April foolery (though it’s a little early, unless you’re Slashdot), clicked on a post to see the comments, and behold! New features:
- Threaded comments.
- Diggable (up or down) comments.
These were two of my main beefs with Digg, and their addition might… might… have made it a site worth visiting once in awhile. I may have to login again, if they haven’t cancelled my account. ;-)
b3ta.com challenges has a pretty creative collection of images around the theme if Google owned everything.
Slashdot is following the logic that April 1st follows UTC time, and has… redesigned the site.
Reminds me of the Sam and Fuzzy April Fools redesign(before, after) from a year or two back… awesome.
I would just point to Andy’s important reminder, but the image was too good not to repost.
It’s good to have opinions, but it’s nice to have a reality check once in awhile, also. ;-)
For some reason, recursion never ceases to fascinate me. Whether it’s the “garden-variety” recursion of a first-year Comp Sci course, or the more mind-bending mathematical psuedo-paradoxes you find in Hofstadter’s writings, it’s all great.
Sometimes, it isn’t immediately obvious that a thing is recursive, or self-referential. For example,
All general statements are false.
Seems logical enough on the first reading. Think about it some more; is it right, or wrong? Is there something wrong with the way it’s written? It doesn’t break any of the rules of English grammar, and it is a sensible sentence whose meaning is clear… The conundrum, of course, is that the above sentence is a general statement, which means that by it’s own proposition, it should be false; I’ll let you chase the rest of that particular chain of reasoning around on your own.
Continue reading ‘There are only two types of people in the world…’
Slashdot was pointing to Study: You can lower the odds of being outsourced, which gives us the shocking revelation that you are less likely to be outsourced if you possess or develop business and management skills, as well as technical ones.
While this scores a little high on the Obviousity-meter, it remains an interesting article.
Yes, it’s the obligatory “Paul Graham wrote an essay” link-post. A thoughtful essay on patents from someone who now spends much of his time coaching entrepreneurs.
Steve Ballmer’s comment about “brainwashing” (his choice of words) his kids not to use Google or own an iPod has been making the rounds in the news.
Uh… is it just me, or does that sound really… petty and insecure? I’m not trying to be mean but… come on. It’s one thing if they were not to use those in deference to the comparable Microsoft product… but there is no comparable Microsoft product to the iPod (and the Origami won’t be it, either), and I don’t consider MSN Search comparable to Google. Neither does anyone else.
