fuse-google-drive is a fuse filesystem wrapper for Google Drive released under GPLv2

Currently in preliminary development stages.

Status:
directory listing works, incorrect stat() info
redirecturi is now hardcoded -- you do not need the file
clientsecrets and client id should now be in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fuse-google-drive/

Discussion:
#fuse-google-drive on irc.freenode.net

Dependencies:
fuse
curl
json-c aka libjson
libxml2

So what did the designers at Google actually do not just to make their product so much more beautiful, but so much more beautiful than Facebook? Co.Design talked to Google+ lead designer Fred Gilbert to unpack the subtle brilliance behind their awesome redesign--a redesign that was completed in less than two months--and his notes are full of lessons that could hone the experience of almost any product.

Allow me to disagree — and I’m very happy to be able to do so. RSS is alive and well; it just completely failed to get adopted by the mainstream. I don’t think a lot of people would even be interested in subscribing to Twitter feeds and Facebook walls via RSS, so it’s not a big deal that these services have been phasing out support for it. At the same time, a lot of applications, some of them now becoming very popular with mainstream users, make extensive use of RSS behind the scenes (like Flipboard, or now Google Currents). RSS is doing just fine, it’s just ended up in another place than what we all were hoping for.

Background Python is the main scripting language used at Google. This style guide is a list of dos and don'ts for Python programs. To help you format code correctly, we've created a settings file for Vim. For Emacs, the default settings should be fine.

In meinen Augen ist das ein zentraler Fehler aller Gamification-Ansätze, die ich bisher gesehen habe. In dem Moment, wo man Leute im Spiel hat, die die SoD abschalten und das Spiel nach den Spielregeln analysieren, statt seinen realweltlichen Zielen, die es verpacken soll, brechen diese Ansätze alle auseinander. Es kommt zur Einführung von Sonderregeln und am Ende zur Legalisierung der Willkürregel der Spielleitung ("Spielzüge, die offensichtlich zur Ausbeutung von Schwächen der Spielregeln gemacht werden, sind ungültig, auch wenn sie nach den Regeln legal sind."). Am Ende artet das Ganze in eine Art NOMIC-Partie aus, weil in jeder Gamification die Ziele der realen Welt und der spielerischen Verpackung niemals perfekt übereinstimmen. In dem Moment wo man ernsthafte Spieler hat, die das Spiel gewinnen wollen, anstatt sich mit dem realweltlichen Problem dahinter zu beschäftigen, wird jedes dieser Spiele zu einer Partie Nomic degenerieren, weil die realweltlichen Interessen der Veranstalter und die Interessen der ernsthaften Spieler sich beißen. Regelanwälte diskutieren Grenzfälle, und erweitern die Regeln zu einem Komplex, der am Ende zu kompliziert ist, um noch Spaß zu machen. Oder man bekommt Munchkins im Spiel - Powergamer, die nach den Regeln optimieren und allen anderen den Spaß am Spiel nehmen (außer man spielt Munchkin, das genau das zum Spielprinzip erhebt).

Lobbying is what companies do. Google indeed dominates online search. Concerns about its privacy practices are spreading. Microsoft should not have a hard time flagging up its competitor’s faults. Which makes it all the more remarkable that ICOMP does such a lousy job of it—and shows no sign of easing up despite all the resulting bad publicity for its partner.

There are 3 exercises that go with the first sections of Google's Python class. They are located in the "basic" directory within the google-python-exercises directory. Download the google-python-exercises.zip if you have not already (see the Set-Up page for details).
string1.py -- complete the string functions in string1.py, based on the material in the Python Strings section (additional exercises available in string2.py)
list1.py -- complete the list functions in list1.py, based on the material in the Python Lists and Python Sorting sections (additional exercises available in list2.py)
wordcount.py -- this larger, summary exercise in wordcount.py combines all the basic Python material in the above sections plus Python Dicts and Files (a second exercise is available in mimic.py)
With all the exercises, you can take a look at our solution code inside the solution subdirectory.

Ein zweitägiger Kurs, vollständig dokumentiert auf der Google Code University mit Videos auf YouTube und Übungsaufgaben. Nett gemacht und auch zum Selbst­studium geeignet.

Menschen mit gleichen Interessen finden – und sich vernetzen
Google+ eignet sich wie kein anderes Netzwerk anderer Internet-Dienst, Menschen mit bestimmten Interessen zu finden – und sich dann mit ihnen zu vernetzen. Google+ ist im Gegensatz zu Facebook nicht geschlossen. Okay, Facebook hat sich geöffnet, man kann jetzt auch andere “abonnieren” anstatt sich mit ihnen zu “befreunden”. Aber dafür ist Facebook nicht gebaut. Google schon. Hier spielt Google seine unglaubliche Stärke bei der Suche aus. Und so ist Google+ zuvorderst vielleicht kein “Social Network”, aber bereits jetzt eine enorm leistungsstarke “Social Search”. Und je mehr User bei Google+ sind, desto stärker wird sie. Und was kann man denn besseres mit den gefundenen Menschen machen, bei denen man ein gemeinsames Interesse entdeckt hat, als sich mit ihnen zu vernetzen? Das Schöne an Google+: Man kann sich vernetzen (auch gegenseitig, wenn man sich gegenseitig circled), man muss es aber nicht, man kann auch nur einem anderen “folgen”.

Walkaround is a variant of Wave, based on the Apache Wave code base, that runs on App Engine. Walkaround can import waves from wave.google.com to allow users to keep working with their data regardless of the future of wave.google.com. (The import feature is still experimental.)

Much of the walkaround code is not specific to Wave, but factored out as a separate, more general collaboration layer that manages shared live objects. These objects can be modified by multiple clients at the same time, with changes made by any client immediately broadcast to all others. The Wave application is built on top of this, but the live collaboration layer is flexible enough to support other applications. See the design overview.

Walkaround supports live concurrent rich-text editing, in-line replies, user avatars, wave gadgets, attachments, and we are working on integrating App Engine's full text search service. For now, it does not support Wave robots, federation, or private replies, but these features could be added.

Tools to view your site as Googlebot would see it

The following are a couple examples of web services that will allow you to see your web pages or their source code the way other user agents (such as Googlebot) see them. This could be helpful in detecting undesired output if your site's files or database have been hacked. Often times, such hacks are masked when viewing a site by "regular" users and only show up to search engines.

I bet this works via tagging and not really through a database-- similar to what ridllr.com is doing.

Glad to see people working to fix google's massive massive mistake. However, this is only like a 40% solution since it just brings back sharing and not commenting. I'm holding out for hivemind.org

This is why I was never fascinated by Google+ and its concept of Circles. You have to go through entire sub-communities of your friends and drop them into arbitrary groupings. That sounds like shit work to me. What happens if I get really hammered with a Business Acquaintance and he becomes a Close Drinking Partner? Do I move his circles around? What happens if we hire him? Is he a Coworker and a Close Drinking Partner? The last thing I want to have to worry about is continually micromanaging another facet of life. This is important, since Google+ Circles is allegedly about privacy, and if you don’t continually cultivate your circles, you could inadvertently send out the wrong update to the wrong subset of contacts.

The redesign being horrible, color, space, and clarity-wise is only the tip of the iceberg. Ultimately the sharebros don't care what color the theme is, we care about losing the main feature of google reader that no other RSS reader has, and that's the social aspect. The "redesign" was a poor attempt to move the following system of sharing news items into google+. However, google+ can't even approach the level of information sharing that greader had. For example, if I want to share an article with a sharebro, they'd have to first leave reader, go to +, find the stream for the circle his sharebros are in, and then + will only allow a thumbnail image from the article and the first two-ish sentences. Sounds like a minor inconvenience, until you realize the average sharebro was reading well over 1000+ shares a week. It's not a convenient or easy way for us to share our RSS feeds anymore. Don't even get me started on the fact that it is impossible in + to curate feeds and shares from other users, now, rather than appearing chronologically by what you have and have not read, things get thrown into the "stream" which is an uncuratable mess where it is impossible to navigate through what you've already read and what you haven't.

This information and why we are unhappy at being corralled into + is widespread on the web from techcrunch to forbes.

google sendet mit dem redesign des readers ein klares signal an die loyalen benutzer (aka nerds):

1. ihr seid uns scheissegal. auf euch können wir keine rücksicht nehmen, wir müssen nun an das grosse ganze denken. und das grosse ganze ist unser tolles google+. das funktioniert zwar noch nicht so super, ist noch immer leicht behindert (kein RSS, keine saubere, einfache möglichkeit inhalte auf fremde oder google-eigene plattformen zu transferieren (API), kaum filtermöglichkeiten ausser „circles“), aber na und? fresst oder geht sterben (exportiert euren scheiss doch einfach).

I specifically remember being excited about the launch of Google Calendar in 2006 because Google was a company cranking out hit after hit after hit. Great products. But recently, what have they done?

You can argue that Android is pretty solid now, but that’s after years of iteration. At first, it basically sucked. Chrome has been great, but it now seems to be getting more buggy, not less, over time. Google Voice? Decent, but not what it should be. Google+? Not bad, but issues. Google TV? Yeah. Google Music? Ha. Google Wave? Sigh. Etc, etc, etc.

That’s maybe my biggest problem with Google. They release something, and I no longer have any faith that it’s going to be any good. It’s hard to get excited about a company like that. It’s the same reason why it’s hard to get excited when Microsoft and Yahoo release new things. The track record just isn’t there any more. The faith is gone.

Googles Schritt ist einer von der Qualität hin zur Masse. Er zwingt einer Community, die für sich in Anspruch nimmt, modern mit Nachrichten umzugehen, einen konzeptionellen Schluckauf auf – bringt nicht um, nervt aber –, dessen Ende nicht absehbar ist und opfert dafür das einzige funktionierende (!, wenn auch kleine) soziale Netzwerk des eigenen Portfolios. Ohne Not und zu Gunsten eines Hypes, von dem es ”nichts versteht”.

A Google Reader/Google+ integration is not inherently a bad thing. I like and use both services and I have thought for a while that each could be improved by linking it with the other. But on the details, this integration is a let-down. Ultimately, what it shows, is that Google was willing to kill off Reader's sharing communities to save Google+. It's easy to see why Google would make that choice, but that doesn't lessen the disappointment and anger of those who just lost their favorite place on the web.

die gesamte dontdoevil-narration ist natürlich so viel wert wie klopapier, wenn sie sich mit facebook – und also das erste mal mit einem echten herausforderer – konfrontiert in einen moron verwandeln, der seine infomonopolistischen marktmacht ohne rücksicht auf verluste (auf seiten der user, wohin sollen sie den gehen, muhaha) ausnützt, um dem eigenen hoffnungsträger g+ ein gewisses momentum zu verleihen; wobei sie das alleine natürlich nicht evil macht, aber – wie diplix schön sagt – billig, schlampig und doof.

Those of us who are still playing with Google Plus are eagerly awaiting its further integration into other Google services (in ways other than the red box in the top right corner). The updates are coming slowly but surely; Google Docs is now integrated with Hangouts, Google Maps can be shared as posts, and Plus posts are starting to appear in Google Web search.

But Google Plus is built around sharing, and one of Google's best sharing services is missing: Google Reader. It's the free RSS reader that lets anyone subscribe to any website's feed, and it's behind some of the most popular RSS client apps, like Feedly. But there's no built in way to share articles from Google Reader with your circles on Plus. Fortunately, you can make one pretty easily. Here's how.

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These are the steps to add Google Plus as a service on your Google Reader. Once you've set this up, all you have to do to share an article is the bit in the last step.

Go to Google Reader, click the gear icon, and choose 'Reader settings'

Click the 'Send To' tab

Scroll down all the way and click 'Create a custom link'

Enter the following into the fields that appear:
Name: Google+
URL: https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/confirm?hl=en&url=${url}
Icon URL: https://ssl.gstatic.com/s2/oz/images/favicon.ico

Click 'Save,' and Google+ will appear checked, with the nice icon next to it:

Now, when you go back to Google Reader and click on any article, you'll see Google+ in the 'Send to' drop-down menu at the bottom.

Clicking this will open a new window to add that article as a +snippet, which you can share with any circles or individuals you choose on Google Plus. That's it!

Not all blog posts will turn into nice +snippets, but that's up to the site from which you're sharing. Until Google creates some simple integration of these services, this method will have to do. Once it's set up, though, it's easy to share your Google Reader articles with your Plus-buddies.

Are you new to Google Plus? Check out Dan Rowinski's excellent introduction, How To Use Google Plus.

Thanks to How-To New for finding those share-to URLs.

Discuss

Sehr praktische Sache. Ähnlich wie Teamviewer initiiert das Addon den Zugriff über einen zentralen Server (Google) – danach läuft die Verbindung Peer to Peer. Allerdings ist sie hier noch etwas am Ruckeln. Ferner steht ausschliesslich der Remotezugriff zur Verfügung, erweiterte Funktionen wie Dateitransfer oder Chat fehlen derzeit noch.

Warum denn nun Google+?
Diese Frage zu beantworten ist mir in einem Satz nicht möglich. Es ist schon allein deshalb schwierig, weil wir für manche Digitalität einfach noch keine richtigen Worte haben. Hier und da zeichnen sich schon Worthülsen ab, doch fehlt es da oft nach an klarem Inhalt.
Auf dem eigenen Block kann ich mir es ja einfach machen und derweil meine eigenen Worte nutzen.

Für mich ist es keine Systemfrage. Ob Facebook, Twitter oder Google+, keines ersetzt mir das andere. Es ist auch nicht so, dass ich Facebook oder Twitter weniger als vor G+ gebrauche. Eher ist es so, dass ich Google+ richtig gebrauche. In dem Sinn bitte zu verstehen, das es mich frühzeitig gepackt hat und dann habe ich Sachen erlebt, die ich bei Facebook nicht erlebt habe. Ausdrücklich möchte ich betonen, dies liegt vor allem an den Menschen die ich getroffen habe und wie sie mit mir umgegangen sind.

Da ich mich in Zukunft regelmäßig mit dem Googleversum befassen möchte, werde ich dem geneigten Leser sicher noch einige Googlenauten vorstellen können.
Für mich ist Google+ genau der Schmelztiegel von sozialer Mindpower, den ich mir seit meiner ersten BBS (1980er) wünsche.

Dann bin ich seit den ersten Wochen dabei, konnte mich also gut einleben. Die Beziehung zwischen der GUI  und mir kann ich ohne rot zu werden intutiv nennen. Google+ ist neben einem Fundus an aktueller Information, zeitgenössischer Prosa, Fotos der Welt, fruchtige Links und eine täglich frische Auswahl von herzlichem Katzen-Content vor allem ein Gefühl für mich. Daran sind die Hangouts nicht ohne Zutun. Mit maximal neun anderen Googlenauten erkundet der Mensch im Hangout, was ihm und seiner Technik zur synchronen Kommunikation in Wort, Videobild und Chat möglich ist. Dazu wird der jeweilige persönliche Dunstkreis sichtbar. Abgründe des Denkens verbergen sich jedoch oft hinter einem stehenden Profilbild.

Man kann sich leiden oder auch nicht und doch bemüht man sich auch den wirrsten Gedanken noch irgendwie mit einem freundlichen Lächeln hin zu nehmen. Wer sich noch an die Kriege um die Förmchen im Sandkasten erinnern kann, wird schnell erkennen, dass Erwachsensein nicht vor Kindereien schützt.
Genau in solchen Momenten wurden dann doch auch wieder Brücken gebaut und Verständigung gesucht. Da war auch viel angenehmer Stammtisch.
Für eigene Erfahrungen ist eine WEB-CAM dringend angeraten.

Social Magic. Und ich berichte hier dann, wie es sich entwickelt. Wer interessant einkreist, kann viel aus dem Stream picken und dann dazu was Twittern.

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"Listened to Don Norman yesterday and I think this article misses some information (which I don’t know if he mentioned at dConstruct). He clearly stated yesterday that we are the product of Google and that in a certain way that is strange (and maybe worrying). HOWEVER, he also states, as he did yesterday, that he “is not a fan of the Apple business model” and therefore uses an Android phone. I think his comments on Google actually show a concern for the company and for the overall issues of privacy for all of us. Moreover, he also highlighted yesterday that “Google is run by a group of really honest and good-hearted people”."

Google+ is the smartest social network I’ve ever used and it has more potential to change how I use the web than anything I’ve seen in a decade.

What is it?

Facebook without the noise & junk.
Twitter with context & 1000x more functionality.
Friendfeed without the cacophony of aggregated content.

Why it matters?
Circles
It is the first social network to begin to replicate real relationships.

Twitter & Facebook offer 2 choices: friend or follow. No middle ground. Life isn’t like that and Google+ circles allows you to segment & mix relationships however you choose. It’s asynchronous, like Twitter, so a reciprocated relationship isn’t required to connect.

Hangouts
Perhaps the most social feature I’ve ever seen. At its core it’s just group video chat but it’s different when enabled in a large social network where you are already present. I’ve visited with friends today I never get to chat with and met friends of friends just by “hanging out”. It’s a perfect name and killer feature. Skype should be very concerned.

Interface
It looks good & feels good. The UI is intuitive and the platform screams “interact with me”. It is omnipresent on google services so you can be sure most of us will often be a click away from connecting.

Relevance
I just handed Google my social graph and I fully expect my search results are going to get much better in the coming months.

Conclusion+
I might be overly exuberant due to shiny-new-object syndrome but it has exceeded all my expectations. It’s polished and just lovely.

Google learned the lessons of wave & buzz and I think they have a hit on their hands.

Will it kill Facebook in the foreseeable future? No. But competition is sorely needed & Google+ just changed the game.

No idea where it’s headed but I’m a fan.

+me at http://netkno.ws/plus

Update: And you don’t have to take my word for it.

Jesse Stay & Mari Smith (THE 2 Facebook experts) both have very positive impressions.
My wife, a regular person who is seldom impressed, even said “that’s cool” when I showed her circles & hangout.

For more reading about Google+

Google just beat Facebook to the Future by @Jesse
Inside Google+ – How the Search giant plans to go social by Wired

As seen in the streaming of Google IO 2011, physical computing and interactive enviroments are one of the main topics opening the conference. The Android Open Accessory Kit is going to allow Android related devices receive data from different sensors (just via USB, for now).

The Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK) provides an implementation of an Android USB accessory that is based on the Arduino open source electronics prototyping platform, the accessory’s hardware design files, code that implements the accessory’s firmware, and the Android application that interacts with the accessory. The hardware design files and code are contained in the ADK package download.

The board is  based on the Arduino Mega2560 and Circuits@Home USB Host Shield designs, since it communicates to the phone in its “accessory” mode. You can get the custom library / firmware to make it run & test with the shield pictured on top.

more info on the [Android Developer site], via [engadget] source [Google IO]

Great summary of the opportunity that Delicious represents. I wonder if this leak about Yahoo’s intentions turns out to be the best thing for them and I wouldn’t be surprised if they changed their mind and figured out a way to monetize it. Kind-of like the “New Coke” failure for Coca-Cola in the 80′s, maybe? Anyway, you make a great case for Google to buy it.

Is there anything else to do by the end of the year than looking back and review the past year? So let’s have a quick look at what was happening in 2010 regarding the open web. The review is probably incomplete but hopefully I didn’t miss an important event.

Google Buzz
The year really kicked off in February with the launch of Google Buzz. It’s been the first mainstream consumer product that relied heavily on a number of open web standards.

OneSocialWeb
Surprising to many people, Vodafone Group Research and Development developed a prototype of a federated social network called OneSocialWeb. It is built on XMPP, which is mostly known as an instant messaging protocol. OneSocialWeb is also using a variety of open web standards like Portable Contacts for profile information, XFN for friends, of course, and Activity Streams for a news feed.

Unfortunately, it’s been rather silent about OneSocialWeb in recent months.

OExchange
The OExchange protocol for sharing any URL based content with a variety of services has gained some more popularity among web services. It’s supported by such diverse companies as LinkedIn, Digg, Instapaper, Posterous, AddThis, and Yiid. Even German social networks studiVZ (which also adopted XMPP for its messaging system) and Xing started supporting it in 2010.

OStatus
This is a rather new player in the open web world. OStatus is an open standard for distributed status updates. It leverages standards like Activity Streams, OpenID, the Salmon protocol, Webfinger, and PubSubHubbub. Though as far as I know, it is only implemented on StatusNet sites currently. That’s obvious because it was developed there.

PubSubHubbub
This is probably the open standard which has seen the most widespread adoption in 2010. By now, PubSubHubbub is implemented at WordPress.com, LiveJournal, Posterous, Tumblr, Blogger, Netvibes, Google Reader, Feedburner, and many more. So basically, the entire blogging and RSS/Atom environment is PubSubHubbub enabled. Great!

DataPortability Project
The DataPortability project released its Portability Policy in June. This policy can help web services making their Terms of Service more understandable in terms of data portability aspects. An early adopter of this policy is startup Shwowp. Hopefully, more companies will adopt this policy; a policy generator is also available.

Windows Live Messenger Connect
Microsoft surprised many people when launching Windows Live Messenger Connect. It’s a set of APIs that enable Windows Messenger and Hotmail users to communicate and connect with users on other sites. Standards used include Portable Contacts, OAuth WRAP, Activity Streams and OData. Many open standards for a company which had been notorious for using proprietary code so far.

Random Mentions
XAuth was launched to recognize service providers of authenticated users and then minimize login or sharing options for those users.

AOL implemented Webfinger on its website.

Sadly, Cliqset closed shop.

Google released an OpenID sample store and published relevant documentation for it.

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SwiftKey, the software keyboard that can read minds, has been updated to version 1.0.8 in the Android Market.  Not a big change log, but what is there is nice to see.  Makes us all feel like we aren't being forgotten after we've spent our money.  The two big changes, at least in my opinion, are the new languages supported for dictation (English, Spanish, French, German and Italian) and contractions now include apostrophes in the auto correct area.  Now I can't blame my typos on the keyboard any longer!  The short version of the change log:
Fixed issue with contractions/apostrophization auto-correction issueFixed prediction/voice dictation bug in fields with drop-down suggestion text fields.The Market entry has also been adjusted so the price is in U.S. dollars instead of British Sterling, as some banks have issue accepting charges in foreign currency through Google Checkout.  One last thing to mention -- the sale price of 99 cents goes away on Sept. 30, and the price goes up to $3.99, so don't say we didn't warn you.  Now go update, and put it through the paces.  If you haven't tried SwiftKey yet, download links are after the break. [SwiftKey]
Find more in the Swiftkey Developer Forums

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com.touchtype.swiftkey


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e are at the verge to lose the openness of the Internet as we’ve known it for the last 15 – 20 years. He is right. We, as a society, taking the openness of the Internet for granted, because it was born into this world as an open system. Nobody had to fight for it’s openness, because the people who are responsible for its creation did an excellent job of establishing an equal access to it. People like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg don’t believe in equality, because they believe that they ‘know better’. That’s why we have products like the iPad, which is ironically being described as ‘curated computing’. What’s next? A curated version of the Internet?

To that I would need to say: no, thanks. And I can only plead that more people stand up for the fact that those companies don’t take away what we hold precious and that is fundamentally right. Equal, uncontrolled and modified access to the Internet should not be a privilege, but a right.

These questions may sound tough and embarrassing. I hope they’re not avoided, because Google is in a tough and embarrassing position. A blind-folded approach isn’t going to help. And we desperately need Google to challenge Facebook.

Das Vertrauen seiner Nutzer, resultierend aus einem sicheren Umgang mit deren Daten, ist Googles höchstes Gut und die Grundlage seines Geschäfts. Ein größerer Skandal, und Google wäre schlicht weg vom Fenster (weswegen ich auch überhaupt kein Problem damit, Google bestimmte Daten von mir zu überlassen).

in this case the iPad can be thought of more as a home appliance then a computer. I think it is completely wrong to call it a PC. Like Jim said on a technical level yes it has a CPU, memory and all the other components which make up a computer-like device but the similarities end there. The device is a super-refined task oriented device that lives in a closed (closed does not mean limited btw) ecosystem

So here's my request to the open source community: make a webpage for your project that summarizes your community's development resources & process. And then link the hell out of it. Link it from all over your project's documentation. Make sure you have a CONTRIBUTING file, but don't put the current information in the file.... it'll just get stale. Instead, put your contributing documentation URL in your CONTRIBUTING file. Tools and processes change, but tarballs get old, and distros are rarely bleeding edge.

Google engineers and the open source community have begun laying the groundwork to support an open social Web. The group has been working on a protocol that would aggregate conversations at the source, bring them back to any Web site related to the stream, and avoid spam and duplicate posts as well.

The Salmon protocol aims to connect social networks that today cannot share posts and information. The goal to syndicate and aggregate conversations related to the original post that live in silos across the Internet would create what Google calls a social graph.

hmm, I like Umair and all but this ain't right IMHO

“Although Google’s getting into the game late, the timing may be just right. The game is no longer just about “what are you doing”. As microblogging has become more popular, the stream has become more busy, and people are getting tired of sifting through the noise. So, now that pretty much everyone has shown up for the party, the value is moving to discovery, context, and relevance. The question we increasingly feel our social inbox should answer better is: “given what you know about me, look at everything I subscribe to, and show me only the updates I care about most right here, right now.” In one word: Search. And who has the advantage there? We know who.”

Google's new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week. Here's how to customize and use Buzz--or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely.

The good thing about Facebook is that is has a dedicated ‘Pages’ view showing only these subscription-like updates. Unfortunately, ‘Pages’, like all lists, respects the general settings of the ‘News Feed’, so if you hide something there, it is also hidden here. This makes it impossible, under the current interface, to separate pages you have become a fan of from friends and to keep your stream relatively clean. One of the first hints that Facebook wasn’t designed for news reading.

One problem I see with Twitter & Facebook as main information sources is the availability: not all websites or blogs have Twitter accounts or Facebook pages. On the other hand, RSS is built-in to most blogging platforms, if not all, so the author doesn’t need to set up anything extra. Google Reader also recently evolved beyond feeds to deliver updates from any webpage, making it the next best thing to an universal source of updates. ... My sentiments exactly. I'm playing around with using Twitter, Facebook a

step-by-step instructions for installing EtherPad, the open-source real-time text editor recently acquired by Google

What’s your guess? My guess is that Blackberry will be the third standard, Nokia will eventually leave Symbian for Android, and Microsoft will buy Palm but then screw it up, losing its position almost entirely in the mobile client space where smart phones will soon dominate, selling up to a billion units per year.

Ganz vieles an der Argumentation der Verleger ist so böse falsch, trotzdem bin ich sicher, wir werden so ein mistiges Leistungschutzgesetz bekommen, egal wieviel Aufklärungsarbeit da noch in Blogs (und ja nur da!) geleistet werden wird.

“It is harder and harder for me to spot an IT sector in which Google does not offer products and services,” Mathias Schindler pondered in the forum, “Can you think of any IT sector where there is no Google product (yet)?” Competition has a tough time, unless they happen to get bought up by Google, not only because of Google’s cross-integration power, but also because it would take mindblowing budget to reproduce Google’s cloud server farm. Google after all arguably owns the world’s biggest super computer, one with an AI that becomes better and better with more data. But the giant is growing taller by the second, and I’m curious if there will be a couple of instances where we’ll see him stumble over his own feet in 2010.

it works!

The Apple iPhone is the hottest web access device around, and like Facebook, while it connects to the web, it plays by a different set of rules. Anyone can put up a website, or launch a new Windows or Mac OS X or Linux application, without anyone's permission. But put an app onto the iPhone? That requires Apple's blessing.

There is one glaring loophole: anyone can create a web application, which any user can save as clickable application on their phone. But these web applications have limits - there are key capabilities of the phone that are not accessible to web applications. HTML 5 can introduce all the new application-like features it wants, but they will work only for web applications, and can't access key aspects of the phone with Apple's permission. And as we saw earlier this year with Apple's rejection of the Google Voice application, Apple isn't shy about blocking applications that it considers threatening to their core business, or that of their partners.

Wenn man nun einmal ein paar Schritte zurücktritt und das Gesamtbild auf sich wirken läßt, dann erkennt man Muster: Alles in allem wirkt der Ansatz von Google auf mich wie eine Firma von Physikern oder anderen Experimental-Forschern mit akademischem Background, die beschlossen haben, einmal 'so richtig' in die Wirtschaft zu gehen und ihre Methoden dort hin zu portieren. Man baut Modelle, identifiziert Abhängigkeiten und eliminiert sie konsequent und man hat keine Angst, dabei auch richtig groß zu denken und Neuland zu betreten.

Auf eine Weise betreibt man Grundlagenforschung, aber nicht in der Abgeschiedenheit von Menlo Park oder einem anderen Elfenbeinturm, sondern gleich in der Produktion.

One, will it catch on? Yes. It could take a few years to get big, as Twitter did, but because it's on Google's Toolbar, has a seductive interface (a little tab on pages with comments), and can become viral as users spread it, it's going to grow.

Two, what should marketers and site owners do? First, claim your site. Second, monitor and respond to comments. (With the Sidewiki API available, it will likely soon be built into tools like Radian6.) And third, add your own social features, now.

If you add social features like ratings and reviews, comments, and forums to your brand site, your media site, and your blogs, they'll be far more convenient for visitors. They'll generate discussion, but discussion you can moderate to your own standards. And if the interesting discussion is on your site, people won't be compelled to comment with Sidewiki.

ich warte und warte und warte

Facebook has become a much more powerful and penetrated platform than AOL ever was. But I hope this growth will stop. I don’t want a single company to decide for me what the web looks like. I want an ecology of companies competing and cooperating, making our experience better and better. Without asking us to give up the one thing that is precious to us. Our freedom.

Facebook is the biggest walled garden there is. I think it’s big enough already, what do you think?

As the Google Wave APIs continue to expand, even more robust modules can be written to take advantage of Google Wave's unique features. One such idea would be a robot for Drupal that acts in much the same way as Bloggy: publishing waves as pages to a Drupal instance, and allowing the management of a site's contents primarily through wave.
One of the things I find most exciting about Wave is that it comes in a time when so many services online are available through SOAP/REST/XMLRPC interfaces, and budding developers like me can theoretically integrate all of these services with Wave

Today, we're launching an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to download, use, and share their work via Google Books.

Creative Commons licenses make it easier for authors and publishers to tell readers whether and how they can use copyrighted books. You can grant your readers the right to share the work or to modify and remix it. You can decide whether commercial use is okay. There's even an option to dedicate your book to the public domain.

If you're a rightsholder interested in distributing your CC-licensed book on Google Books, you have a few different options. If you're already part of our Partner Program, you can make your book available under CC by updating account settings. If not, you can sign up as a partner. You can select from one of seven Creative

Calacanis ist der festen Überzeugung, dass sich das Wettbwerbsverhalten von Apple grundlegend ändern müsse, wenn man nicht von Wettbewerbern verdrängt werden wolle. Hier sieht er Microsoft und vor allem Google bereits in Lauerstellung. Gerade aus der Open-Source-Bewegung kämen viele gute, günstige und eben auch offene Angebote, die Apple das Leben schwer machen könnten.

Other impressive apps are Android exclusives. Last week, Apple refused to carry an iPhone app that lets the user route all his phone calls through Google’s new telephone service, Google Voice - but there is an Android version.

While the iPhone is produced by just one company, Android is a software standard that can be offered by many companies. Already, 30 cell carriers in 20 countries are peddling Android phones, and two of America’s biggest carriers will start selling them this year. The iPhone will easily outsell any one of these phones, but collectively, Google’s cellphone technology could end up on tens of millions of handsets, and become the global standard for smartphones. The Android invasion is just getting started.

The bottom line: If one can live with the potential for Google lock-in, Google Wave will be a compelling option for many organizations looking at adopting Enterprise 2.0.

I have three unsolicited pieces of advice for Google's management. First, set and communicate clear criteria for how you make funding decisions. Make sure those criteria include quantitative elements (how big could the market be) and qualitative elements (how passionate are we about this). Second, create an "ideal" innovation portfolio that blends core improvements and new growth businesses. Finally, consciously seek ideas that provide "unique" diversification by using a new channel, reaching a new customer, or creating a new revenue stream

Broken down into deployment planning and user adoption, the new resource is basically a treasure-trove of information on rolling out Google Apps in your business. It's targeted specifically at larger organizations; for deployments of less-than 100 users, Google recommends their usual "Getting Started" guide. In the wake of yesterday's announcement of syncing with Microsoft Outlook, this is just one more reason why Google is getting serious about pushing Apps into larger enterprise deployments.

Snip "Google Wave is a new communication service previewed today at Google I/O. "A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."

One example of the many blogposts concerning Googlees new play, Wave. I noted some more general links in my blogpost herehttp://www.frogpond.de/index.php/archive/why-is-google-wave-a-tsunami/

blogged about Google Wave, with a humble effort to explain what makes Google Wave important from my perspective.

It's like they say that the toys of today are the tools of tomorrow, but there are of course more elaborate arguments included

If you're a developer and you'd like to roll up your sleeves and start working on Google Wave with us, you can read more on the Google Wave Developer blog about the Google Wave APIs, and check out the Google Code blog to learn more about the Google Wave Federation Protocol.

If you'd like to be notified when we launch Google Wave as a public product, you can sign up at http://wave.google.com/. We don't have a specific timeframe for public release, but we're planning to continue working on Google Wave for a number of months more as a developer preview. We're excited to see what feedback we get from our early tinkerers, and we'll undoubtedly make lots of changes to the Google Wave product, platform, and protocol as we go.

Tim gives a good rundown of Google Wave - as always more action is happening in the comments. There's a discusiion touching bases on many accounts (Think Ray Ozzie's Grrove, Jon Udell's Practical Internet Groupware and more), what it all means to Facebook, Friendfeed and whatever (personally I think that it's more of a threat to Facebook and not so much to the lifestreaming idea of Friendfeed)

So, given that that the toys of today are the (enterprise) tools of tomorrow, what do we make of this as Enterprise 2.0 people?

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Notes from a Google speech on #innovation

When people say they want enterprise search to "work like Google" what they mean is that they want a simple box to type words into, and they want to get the right answer on the first page, and they want it to be fast.

Anyway, I think adding a social dimension to existing search engines would go a long way toward improving the overall results without a huge investment in relevancy and weighting.

Exploring the difference between the raw service of Amazon EC2 to the high level web centered Google App Engine, the highlights are:

* Insight into the pay-as-you go aspect with no commits
* Analysis of cost with regards to peak and elasticity in face of unknown demand
* Cost of data transfers versus processing time
* Seamless migration of user to cloud processing
* Limits and problems with I/O on shared hardware

"I think it looks pretty sharp. It's simple and powerful - it will respond well to scale. I'm surprised that they called it a wiki. When I heard they wouldn't call a wiki a wiki [Jotspot was renamed Google Sites -ed.], then I decided I wouldn't call my searches Googles. Now that they are calling a wiki a wiki, I guess I'll call my searches Googles again....or should I call them wikis? I can't tell if they have a wiki there or not, it might just be a forum. Collectively editing thoughts is what leads to the unique wiki behavior and I didn't see that demonstrated in the video. They are going to get a lot of data. They obviously have the ability to wield information, let's just hope that we will all benefit. I don't think it's obvious that we all will benefit - but I guess I have enough trust in the behavior of a large number of people."

"Harnessing collective intelligence" isn't a different idea from network effects, as Nick argues. It is in fact the science of network effects - understanding and applying the implications of networks.

I want to emphasize one more point: the heart of my argument about Web 2.0 is that the network effects that matter today are network effects in data

Web 2.0 is ultimately about understanding the rules of business in the network era. I define Web 2.0 as the design of systems that harness network effects to get better the more people use them, or more colloquially, as "harnessing collective intelligence." This includes explicit network-enabled collaboration, to be sure, but it should encompass every way that people connected to a network create synergistic effects.

marginal cost of producing and distributing a new copy of a purely digital product is close to zero -> Google not only has the desire to give away informational products; it has the economic leeway to actually do it. Those two facts — the vast breadth of Google’s complements, and the company’s ability to push the price of those complements toward zero ... bmid!!!! galore galore

For more than a year the use of illustrations in order to ideate and visualize innovation both in products and services has been part of my Design Management seminars.

While preparing for the international version of this seminar in Lucerne/CH in November this year together with my colleague Erik over from http://www.zilverinnovation.com I've been happily stumbling across Google's announcement to release a new G-branded browser built from scratch. However it wouldn't be Google if they would have chosen the ordinary road of explaining innovation with plain fact sheets. Instead they've chosen the format of a 'Comic' in order to illustrate the new approach and rich features of the web browser.

Thanks to Scott McCloud I do now have a new (and better) example of great use of illustrations for business purposes.

I think another point is that Enterprises are not comfortable with storing all there data on Google servers. This is especially true with Government IT. A lot of data is sensitive or proprietary and should not be accessed or stored across an Internet connection. And it is not viable to split your systems so only non-sensitive data is stored on Google servers.

piwik is an open source (GPL license) web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak… and so much more. piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics. piwik is different from the competition because: 1. the features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. If you are a developer, you can easily build your own plugins! 2. you own your data. Piwik being installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using open APIs (publishing the data in many formats: xml, json, php, csv) 3. (NOW AVAILABLE!!!) the user interface is fully customizable, you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display, create the reports you want

Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.

Google hat - da unterstütze ich die zitierte TAZ-Position voll - sehr starkes Eigeninteresse daran, die Daten nicht zu missbrauchen.

Arbeitsprozessen innerhalb des Google-Unternehmens stieß ich u.a. auf eine beachtliche Corporate Google-Philosophie. Dort werden 10 Dinge genannt, “die für Google erwiesen sind”

The guiding vision or values that had to be translated into tangible outcomes. This thinking has many overlaps with our developed framework of emergent innovation, especially with the concept of enabling spaces

create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. The ten principles that contribute to a “Google User Experience” are: 1. Focus on people ...

Web 2.0, the internet operating system we're building, is much bigger than search. Search is an incredibly powerful subsystem of that OS, but it is just a subsystem