"I'm with you on the customization, I wish I could choose my color scheme.
But I think all this will become a non issue once the Gmail team implements Open Social's canvas view. Merge Google Reader and Gmail at last (just like Outlook, Thunderbird, and any other desktop mail program that's worth it's salt)." - Pat Hawks
"That’s dumb.
YouTube can transcode it’s entire library of content to H.264 in under a year, but Flickr can’t do the same to it’s relatively small catalog of 90 second clips?" - Pat Hawks
"WOAH!
I like seeing my unread count, but it doesn’t need to be freaking BOLD
Everything else looks fine.
Different, but I’ll get used to it, I guess." - Pat Hawks
"If you were worried about how your videos look, you’re already using Vimeo.
If you want traffic, you’re on YouTube, and this will only increase the traffic YouTube drives to the videos it hosts." - Pat Hawks
"Really?
Typing your email address was just too much?
Is it a good thing to make commenting more accessible to people as lazy as yourself?" - Pat Hawks
"Dooode.
Even I've never left a comment that fast. Incredible.
Yeah, I'll see you this weekend, some. probably.
But did you listen to the music?" - Pat Hawks
"So with the U.S. economy in a recession, Google is ratcheting back spending and cutting new projects. "We have to behave as though we don't know" what's going to happen, says Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt. The company will curtail the "dark matter," he says, projects that "haven't really caught on and aren't that exciting." He says the company is "not going to give" an engineer 20 people to work with on certain experimental projects anymore. "When the cycle comes back," he says, "we will be able to fund his brilliant vision."" - Bret Taylor
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"Many others [services], such as experiments with offering digital music and an online data-storage service, never took off" > What are they talking about? - Jérôme Flipo
I can only assume that by "online data-storage service" they mean Google Base. - Mihai Parparita
@Tanath Horrible headline! I too was worried "Google Gears" was being taken down - Pat Hawks
"And with geo-location, if a picture looked too much like a terrorists (say, greater than a 60% match), black helicopters could show up right away.
Great idea." - Pat Hawks
"Weird stuff happens sometimes. Sometimes the Yahoo pipe takes a while to
update. At any rate, I'm glad it works now.
Let me know if you have any issues getting it on your blog." - Pat Hawks