GV Screwups is a blog showcasing accidental mis-transcriptions of the Google Voice service, which turns voicemail into text. Want an example? Original Message: "Hey Kyle, it's Dad. It's Tuesday morning. Give a call at work, OK? ..." What GV Heard: "Yes. Hey Kyle, status Tuesday morning. Give me a call or cocaine ..." [Thanks Mark!] Full story...
On their way to become a more normal company, Google went from No Ads to Mostly Good Ads. Two examples are the "story" videos for for Google search and one for the Nexus One phone.
[Cartoon from Xkcd by Randall Munroe, (cc) free to share but not to sell]
I was just trying to find out the PageRank of a couple of sites using Internet Explorer's Google Toolbar, but something was broken.
Google's social network site Orkut has a new application that lets you morph one face into another. Called People Hopper, it was broken yesterday but is working now.
The Washington Post writes:
The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
H+ Magazine writes:
Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites recently rolled out SpaceShipTwo, a commercial passenger spaceship designed after the winning ship that captured the $10M Ansari X PRIZE for spaceflight in 2004.
Google's Chromium.org site contains some pictures "of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware".
Google's YouTube allowed viewers to submit a question for US president Obama. Over 11,000 questions were asked and over 667,000 votes were cast, YouTube writes, saying they "collected the top questions".
The Wall Street Journal writes:
Google Inc. is preparing to launch a store selling online business software that integrates with its Web services, according to people briefed by the company, enlisting software developers in its battle against Microsoft Corp.
In A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users, the authors write:
In this paper, we introduce a novel de-anonymization
attack against users of social networking sites.