The unwillingness of Facebook and Google to share a public commons when it comes to the intersection of search and social is corrosive to the connective tissue of our shared culture.
As Yegger’s recalls that one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate, sometime back around 2002 (give or take a year):
- All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.
- Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.
- There will be no other form of inter-process communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team’s data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.
- It doesn’t matter what technology they use.
- All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.
The mandate closed with:
Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired. Thank you; have a nice day!
I hate Google+. Can't stand it. It is agonizing to use. The stream is so noisy, it won't even bother me when the inevitable Google ads arrive. Culturally, it feels like walking into a religious school. It swarms with disciples of the + waiting for the messianic downfall of the Evil Internet, so that the One True Google+ is all that's left.
On time and on budget, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Google executives today celebrated Pittsburgh government’s successful transition to Google Apps for Government. In less than four months, nearly 3,000 City employees made the switch from Microsoft Exchange email to a Google-operated email and communication system that will save the City about 25 percent in annual email support costs and make employees more efficient. In addition, employees now have shorter, more customer-friendly email addresses, 500 times more email capacity and IT personnel no longer have to spend time on server management and maintenance.
Google Correlate is like Google Trends in reverse. With Google Trends, you type in a query and get back a series of its frequency (over time, or in each US state). With Google Correlate, you enter a data series (the target) and get back queries whose frequency follows a similar pattern.
If you think this is about Google getting into the handset business, think again.
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Today’s deal is all about acquiring Motorola’s backlog of mobile-related patents.
Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat. It works on many popular chat applications that support Google Talk.
Let me introduce you to the OpenBD Desktop. A complete integrated all-in-one, one-click, server environment for developing both standard web-apps and Google App Engine apps.
The OpenBD Desktop is nothing short of revolutionary when it comes to the speed and ease of development of web-apps. Simply point to a directory on your file system, and hit start! If that directory is not yet prepared for running OpenBD, then do not worry, the OpenBD Desktop, will auto prepare that folder for you copying the necessary files in there for you. All done in seconds. That is it! You are now ready.
No Jetty/Tomcat/JBoss configuration. No Apache/IIS configuration. Point click and start. It is that simple.
Welcome to Follow Your World (beta). Find out when new imagery is available in both Google Maps and Google Earth. It's simple. Search for your location, mark the point, and submit. Each time we update the satellite and aerial imagery in your area of interest, we'll notify you.
