The future of Android: two and a half action packed hours.

Google I/O 2014 - Keynote: http://youtu.be/wtLJPvx7-ys

Lesser known Google search tips and hacks - Quora.com

Use Google Search as a Timer

Example , type in the search:"Set Timer 35 minutes" (Without quotes)
And google creates a timer on the web page, with customizable options, including

• Progress bar

• Stop

• Reset

• Audio feature

Timer counts in hours, minutes or seconds

Source http://www.quora.com/Google/What-are-some-lesser-known-Google-search-tips-and-hacks

The right to be forgotten, begins.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Europe's highest court Tuesday gave people the means to scrub their reputations online, issuing a landmark ruling that experts say could force Google and other search engines to delete references to old debts, long-ago arrests and other unflattering episodes. Embracing what has come to be called "the right to be forgotten," the Court of Justice of the European Union said people should have some say over what information comes up when someone Googles them.

Source

Google Drive - DropBox - it begins

Google is not just massively undercutting Dropbox’s pricing scheme, but thanks to integrating Drive with Docs, it is also able to offer far more features. With this kind of competition, the future doesn’t look good for Dropbox.
...
Dropbox may be platform agnostic, but the funny thing is, most of the big players don’t just cater to their own platforms anymore either.


Now That Google Has Cloned It, What’s Next For Dropbox? | TechCrunch

GOOGLE DRIVE ARRIVES!

And a sea of data starts flowing into Google's coffers servers. Steve

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive/index.html?pli=1
Thanks Ron.

Stand back Dropbox, etc.

Tasks in gmail

How to Manage Your Tasks in Gmail - About Email
You can also create a task linked to an email and make tasks sub-tasks of other tasks. To organize your tasks further, Gmail lets you set up multiple lists.

Ads seem too good to be true?

I always wondered how some ads contain the very words I'm typing in my searches... Introducing Dynamic Keyword Insertion. Thanks Jacques.

Dynamic Keyword Insertion – The Ultimate Guide - RedFly Search Engine & Internet Marketing Bloglittle known feature called “Dynamic Keyword Insertion”. Dynamic Keyword Insertion is one of those “dirty little secrets” used by PPC marketing agencies and is the cornerstone of the millions of Internet marketing eBooks written by self proclaimed “gurus”.

Finding Data on the Internet | inside-R

Finding facts on the Internet is nice. Finding organized facts in CSV or some other structured format is quite an other! Welcome to the world of R (Revolutions).

• Finding Data on the Internet | inside-R | A Community Site for R
• Revolutions: How to use a Google Spreadsheet as data in R
• R Training - Learn to Analyze Big Data with R
• Enterprise-Grade R Support by Email and Phone - Revolution Analytics
• Finding Data on the Internet | inside-R | A Community Site for R   the CSV sources

World Wide Data Dump

World statistics compared as charts, maps, etc... This is a sample: check out the source 
Same data as below as a map. Here is one on Life Expectancy.

OpenClass from Google and Pearson Education

Finally, it's Google's Moodle, but not as good. I read the quiz module is nice.

• ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrKjem0JYk&feature=colike

There may be interesting resources here, provided by Pearson Education. Most reviews are hopeful but not excited with the present version. Steve

Google Apps Marketplace - OpenClass: "OpenClass is a new kind of learning environment that goes beyond the LMS, stimulating social learning and the free exchange of content. It’s open to everyone, easy to use, and completely free.

For US higher education institutions & professors
Social learning environment promotes collaboration
No licensing, hardware or hosting costs"

Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine

Ask any question, it will make a sincere effort to help you. Thanks Antonio.

Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine:

Tour

Google begins Amazon river Street View

BBC News - Google begins Amazon river Street View project: "Google is expanding its Street View service into some of the most remote... "

Street-view-goes-to-amazon.html

Firefox with Bing?

Death throes?  firefox with bing.com
I hope it gives Firefox an added boost. How does the 123 M$ revenue  Mozilla Firefox  compete with 36 G$ Google Chrome?
Microsoft may own the hearts and minds of a generation, but the next generation, not so much. Most may ask "What's an OS?". The browser is the new OS, for now.

Google search share rises while competitors stumble

Google search share rises while competitors stumble | ZDNet

Google debuts Dart, a JavaScript alternative

The tools in this kit have to be game changers. I'm watching this one. Steve

Google debuts Dart, a JavaScript alternative | Deep Tech - CNET News: "Google today launched an "early preview" of Dart, a programming language the company hopes will help Web application programmers overcome shortcomings of JavaScript that Google itself feels acutely."

1. Dart: a language for structured web programming - The official Google Code blog
2. Discuss : Dart : Structured web programming
3. Wiki Pages - dart - Dart - Structured Web Programming - Google Project Hosting
4. dart - Dart - Structured Web Programming - Google Project Hosting
5. Tutorial: Hello, World : Dart : Structured web programming
6. Technical Overview : Dart : Structured web programming
7. Dart : Structured web programming

Google Wallet

Of course, then the Google Pocket, the Google Pants, the Google Implants, the Google Undertaker.Thanks Jacques.

Tech Support Cheat Sheets - You always end up on Google.

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

IT Helpdesk Flowchart – Funny

The Humor Bin - Computer Problem Report Form
Fast Guide to IT Humor

Have your Google Apps cake and eat it too! Sounds too good to be true.

Download now: google.com/

Google Apps plug-in injects the cloud into Office, slow venom into Microsoft ZDNet: "It’s almost like an overdue coming-of-age realization for Google, an acknowledgment that MIcrosoft’s install base is so massive that companies needed a smarter way to transition to Apps."

this plug-in - which is free to all Google Apps customers, including free customers - Google is providing a bridge of sorts

The old school employees win because they get to take advantage of the latest collaboration tools without having to let go of their comfortable legacy apps.

More: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/02/teach-your-old-docs-new-tricks-with.html

Now Art gets the Google Treatment

Check out the brushstrokes by the great masters. You could never get this close to real art; in many ways this is better than a visit. Happy touring. Steve.

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

Art Project, powered by Google

Standardizing video formats on VP8

Watch out for dropped YouTube videos as Google tries to reduce the size of it's YouTube storage. At 35 hours of uploaded  new videos per minute, space is being gobbled up at a stunning rate, even for Google's immense server capacity.

So, Google will be trans-codes all it's material to open standards VP8, as it drops H.264 it will save 5 or 6 million dollars annually in licencing fees for Chrome. Should we care? Just while the 800 pound gorilla adjusts itself a little. Steve.

Eventually, in order to consolidate their infrastructure overhead, Google will need to transcode the entire YouTube library into a smaller subset of formats, and since they have to go through the painful effort of doing this anyway, they might as well do it with open formats that they control in which they are beholden to no-one.

A list of supported video formats on YouTube (Source: Wikipedia)

YouTube says that 35 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute, and that around three quarters of the material comes from outside the US.^[15][16] It is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000.¹⁷

YouTube has more viewers? Certainly the number is large, but the total hours viewed may not be quite as large as the prime time audience... But then it is just a matter of time. Steve.

 In May 2010, it was reported that YouTube was serving more than two billion videos a day, which it described as "nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major US television networks combined."^[32]