Google BlogoscopedGoogle, the World, and the World Wide Web, WebloggedGoogle's Rainbow-colored Results for "Gay"- June 17, 2008 When you search Google for gay, you will see special rainbow colors next to the AdWords ads to the right side. Rainbow colors are a globally recognized gay symbol and there's Pride Week coming up. On a related note, Google also sometimes dresses up AdWords for holidays, and they've also had their own wagons at gay parades before. Within Google, gay employees call themselves "gayglers." Thanks Michelle L.!http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-17-n27.html Google Daily Tips Gadget- June 17, 2008 Google provides a daily Google tips gadget for iGoogle. Here's a sample tip of the day: If you use Gmail, you may have noticed the headlines that appear at the top of your inbox. These web clips show news, blog posts and other information available from web feeds. You can customize what web clips are shown by clicking Settings, then the "Web Clips" tab. Choose from a directory of sources, or provide your own feed. Note you can't just click "Next" on this gadget to get a new tip, as is..http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-17-n86.html Google Translator and Barack Obama...- June 17, 2008 Vittorio sent in this Google translator finding: If you type "simpaticone" (very funny person) in Google Translate and choose Ita-Eng, the result is "Barack Obama". The ways of the Google are long and complicated... Thanks Vittorio!http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-17.html#n51 Redesigning the Google Favicon- June 17, 2008 The designers at TurboMilk didn't like the new Google favicon -- the icon displayed in the address bar and elsewhere on Google's sites -- so they decided to take the design job in their own hands. Four designers each had a try at a redesign, and came up with different reasoning and different end results. Here's one of their results: As the official Google blog told a while ago, Google's new favicon too was the result of different explorations of the Google design team, as Google's image..http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-17-n90.html Totlol: YouTube Videos for Toddlers- June 16, 2008 Totlol is a community-moderated video site for "those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years." Its video embeddings -- like the Googleheads song -- are based on the YouTube API, making for a customized, integrated look. Totlol's About page explains, "Online video is a great new experience, and new parents discovered that showing their tots videos on the computer screen is a great way to spend time together. So they head to the leading video websites." Totlol steps in, the explanation reads,...http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-16-n57.html Google Toolbar Available for Firefox 3- June 16, 2008http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-16.html#n62 Nokia Helper Templates- June 16, 2008 When preparing a new text message to someone on the mobile phone I use, you're offered to pick from ready-made text templates like "I am late. I will be there at ___" or "I'm busy right now. I'll call you later." Another template Nokia decided to include reads: I love you too Thank you Nokia developers of the world for making our busy lives a bit simpler!http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-16-n88.html Googolopoly Game- June 16, 2008 Googolopoly by Box.net is a game of Monopoly where the goal is to "organize all of the world's information." To achieve this, you can buy or build internet properties. The board includes fields like "Go" ("collect 200 shares of VC funding as you pass") or a "deadpool" jail ("404 error file not found"), and properties you can buy range from Jotspot, YouTube, SketchUp, over to PayPal, eBay, Yahoo and Microsoft... Via Spreeblick. Thanks Ionut!http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-16-n23.html The Growing List of Things You Can Do With Google Maps- June 12, 2008 Brian Ussery is director of SEO at Search Discovery in Atlanta, Georgia, and develops using Google's tools and APIs. The Google Maps team has been hard at work launching a number of new features in recent months. In case you've missed them, here are a few of the features available in Google Maps these days. "Get directions" with Google Maps Street View Google's Street View was released a year ago and includes imagery for 37 major metropolitan areas in the US. In addition to the...http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-12-n43.html Google Code Search Shows Function Outline- June 12, 2008 Now when you look for bits and pieces at Google Code Search, you can switch to an Outline view additional to the existing Files view. In the (presumably) new Outline view, you will see a linked list of functions and their parameters. This does not work with all kinds of programming languages yet (like Visual Basic), but it worked in some when I tried (like JavaScript). ...http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-12-n48.html |