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Friday, August 22, 2008, 07:00 PM: Simulations of Society with Loren Cobb
Loren Cobb will present his peculiar 15-year journey into sociological model-making for various military entities, including US Southern Command, the Swedish Ministry of Defence, the British Ministry of Defence, the United Nations, and a miscellany of Latin American countries (Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, ...).
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Google Health, codename "Weaver", is Google’s planned health information storage program.
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Answering Questions About Google’s Effort at Standardizing Social Network Widgets, and the Creation of Your First OpenSocial Widget.
Table of Contents:
Background.
Questions About OpenSocial...Answered.
Building Your First OpenSocial Widget.
Limitations of OpenSocial.
Conclusions.
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A Chinese company has taken Google's China operations to court over what it says is an infringement of the Chinese translation of its name, "Guge," according to court documents.
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When Google unveiled its OpenSocial developer initiative at the end of October, observers hailed it as the future of the social Web.
But is the search king already too late to the party?
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Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future. On a lark, she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google, then a Silicon Valley start-up with 40 employees. She was offered the part-time job, which started out at $450 a week but included a pile of Google stock options that she figured might never be worth a penny.
After five years of kneading engineers’ backs, Ms. Brown retired, cashing in most of her stock options, which were worth millions of dollars. To her delight, the shares she held onto have continued to balloon in value.
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With the revived comprehensive immigration reform bill expected to come up before the Senate this week, several high-tech companies like Microsoft have mounted a campaign to get more foreign skilled workers into the United States.
Bill Gates and Steven A. Ballmer of Microsoft have led a parade of high-tech executives to Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to provide more visas for temporary foreign workers and permanent immigrants who can fill critical jobs. Google has reminded senators that one of its founders, Sergey Brin, came from the Soviet Union as a young boy.
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Digital privacy advocate and secret smoker Kevin Bankston was outed on Google's Street View. So, what else does the Internet know about us?
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SAP will be forced to cannibalise its own customers by offering new software that is delivered over the Web as it adapts to a world irrevocably changed by Google. Hasso Plattner, a co-founder of the world's biggest maker of business software, said SAP's on-demand A1S software, slated for launch early next year, would be one of SAP's best-ever products but would compete with its current way of doing business.
"This model will compete with our current model, and 99 percent of our installations are on site."
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Mozilla and Google are collaborating on an effort to make web applications work offline.
Firefox 3 will be the first internet browser to offer offline web application support when it launches at the end of this year.
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Picasa's redesigned mobile interface supports the iPhone's design and sports a new iPhone slideshow feature.
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Some time last week, Google expanded Google Earth with Google Sky. As fascinating as Google Sky is, that's not the focus of this post. Along with the latest update comes a hidden feature of which I cannot seem to find any other information about. What I'm talking about is a flight simulator embedded within GE.
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Google is good for so many things, among which is searching for all sorts of files, including MP3's. Here's a quick primer:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Nirvana"
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最近几周，Google继续成为业界谴责的目标，原因是所收集的私人信息实在太多。
人们一直在关注，Google究竟利用这
些信息来做什么，这些数据究竟被保存多久，并购DoubleClick之后，Google可能利用这些数据来做什么。
最近，Google新推出的“街景”地图服务又遭到抱怨。据悉，该服务可以清楚地看到苹果CEO史蒂夫·乔布斯的房间。
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It appears that Google is working on integrating IMAP into Gmail. Download Squad reader eD! Thomas sent in a tip letting us know he came across the new IMAP setting while snooping around Gmail. However, it is only appearing in select few Gmail and Google Apps for domains accounts at the moment.
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Just like the good folks promised, the early look software development kit for Google's soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets... er, internet. From what we can tell, the OS is as comfortable on larger, VGA devices as it is on more traditional smartphone layouts. Oh yeah... and it plays Quake. Here's what we know the software will support out of the box:
Touchscreen,
3G, Webkit-based browser, Optimized Java runtime layer (known as Dalvik Virtual Machine), Threaded text messaging, MPEG-4, h.264, MP3, and AAC file formats, Accelerated 3D graphics.
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The end goal of acquiring a company may be aligned with Google’s overall mission. We can paraphrase it as 1) grab all the world’s data, 2) make that data useful and accessible in order to direct user attention towards it, 3) profit from ads displayed with the data. Google’s hardware business aside, the company indeed just sells attention. If you look at it from a bird’s view, you could perhaps split up Google’s goals into the two philosophies make money (more the manager or ad sales types) and build the ultimate AI (the developer types).
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