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Google Voice Screwups

Google Blogoscoped  Nov 03 09

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...

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Google to Air Super Bowl Ad?

Google Blogoscoped  2 days ago

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.

Frequency of Strip Versions of Various Games (xkcd)

Google Blogoscoped  3 days ago

[Cartoon from Xkcd by Randall Munroe, (cc) free to share but not to sell]

Google Chrome PageRank Checker

Google Blogoscoped  3 days ago

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 People Hopper

Google Blogoscoped  4 days ago

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.

Google + NSA?

Google Blogoscoped  5 days ago

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.

The Brain-Computer Interface X Prize

Google Blogoscoped  6 days ago

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 Chrome OS Tablet Design Exploration

Google Blogoscoped  6 days ago

Google's Chromium.org site contains some pictures "of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware".

Did YouTube Block Marijuana Questions in Obama Interview?

Google Blogoscoped  Feb 02 10

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".

An App Store for Google Docs, Gmail?

Google Blogoscoped  Feb 02 10

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.

Finding Out a Visitor's Name by Checking Their Social Network Browser History

Google Blogoscoped  Feb 02 10

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.