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I wonder if the app is asking for permission to do it. If not, in my neighbourhood we call it "spyware". Seriously, it is a clever idea but I hope they are doing the right thing and asking the user for approval.

Good point, I do not either what he meant. I think importance would be difficult to measure, but volume growth would be easy for Google to do. I imagine that Schmidt is not talking blindly, he has access to the growth rates of content and the forecast may be accurate.

Well, may be a lot of people that currently uses if because it is free would stop using it.

Well, it is and overflow tweet. =)

via @leolaporte and @jmatuk

I like the ranked feed and I like to have an option to see it unranked (as live feed). I wonder if FB has an option to set the default to either rank/unranked. In the past many of my friends have these annoying applications that fortunately are not showed in the ranked news (may be because the algorithm learnt that I did not like them as I use to hide them).

I always thought (until some years ago) that Red Hat would do what Ubuntu (or Canonical) has done to bring a friendly Linux Desktop to "normal" users.

I agree with lazy but dumb I do not think so. In fact I think that good programmers are lazy and smart.

HDTV and PC vendors will converge to a similar product. In Europe the iniciative is called Hybrid Broadcast Broadband (http://www.hbbtv.org/). One of the pushers I think is the BBC.

Thanks, good to know.

I imagine that they are only for OLPC because of some copyright agreement. Anyway it would be nice that they were available to the rest of the Internet (or may be they are and I did not read well the news).

That's why we are "sapiens", our physical strength is not as good as ancients homos but we are smarter. Smarter proved to be better than faster or stronger. We may be wimp, but we survived.

I have seen three at least.

I will keep using Chromium (and manual updates if necessary) until Google releases an official beta. I do not why but I trust more in the developers in Chromiun that in Google itself.

Yes, you right. Never thought about it

He could have use "the_real_timberneslee".

Nevertheless I do no see why the fuss. Yes, it is the inventor of the WWW but people is seeing this like "the blessing" of Bernes-Lee to the now-omnipower twitter. I think is not, it is just another user that has been catch for the wave.

I tried the "magic" and at least I feel that it is more fun to read. News are not sorted by date any more, which it gives me some "feeling" of randomness reading that I like. The new sorted news "seems" to be ranked according to my previous history of reading. Not sure if it is better but so far I like it a lot.

Well, it is better late than never.

I do not know if they are going to do it, but it would be nice that you can customize it with your preferences about type of news (sports, politics, etc.), location, etc. For what I have read it includes many "social media" sources but it lacks in personalization.

Some months ago the BBC also changed its web site to make it more "Web 2.0". You can personalize it at some level. For example local weather forecast, type of news, type of tv shows in the iPlayer, financial data, etc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Not as fun as the "Robot Cop" in Wallace and Groomit "A Grand Day Out". I tried to find a bit of the movie but no luck.

May be you want to search for a tweet, a link, a video or a photo that one of your friends posted. Today the search in FB and Twitter are very bad, so using Google may help. Also, they may try to merge organic search results with data from your friend in order to give better results. This under the hypothesis that you may be interested more in something share by your friends than in the organic results. Nevertheless, I agree with the other reply; probably is to profile you better and give more targeted ads.

Is Chromium for Mac = Chrome Mac?

I ask because when I read the title I imagine that suddenly Google had released the Chrome for Mac, then after reading I realised that is a review of Chromium for Mac.

Now, I have been using Chromium for mac for a while with almost no complain. I alternate its use with Safari but I could say that at least for me, it is a very mature product.

You can use Arduino. These gadgets are quite good and not very expensive, I have seen pretty clever hack projects using them (GPS, Lego Mind Storms, webserver, etc.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino

I think you can use an arduino board as the interface between the car and the netbook. Also, they are quite good and you could even make the robot with the arduino itself (they have modules for Bluetooth and Ethernet. I would imagine that they also have a wifi one).

It seems a nice experiment to search all around your friends and connections. Would it make the results better if they are incorporated in the main search? I do not know ...

Well, that could backfire. I would imagine that the parents complaining about the WiFi radiations are very probable to be non-smokers.

Cool, they finally add the Google login. Nevertheless the site is still as ugly and unusable as it has been since I registered for the first time. I do not what it is, but Orkut is so unappealing for me.

I am with you. This is going over and over, the FIA, the FIFA, the NBA, the NFL, and now the IOC. Sometimes I am just so tired to hear about the abuse/misinterpretation of Copy Right laws that I do not want to talk about it. However I always ended saying how silly these companies are in trying to "protect" their "rights".

It wouldn't surprise me. Lately the Australian Gov. has done crazy stuff related to Copy Rights Laws, "Net Security" and Net neutrality.

Not working for either. As many others I think that both (MS and Google) tried to win the other with lame PR and a broken application. The result is embarrassing for both.

Too early to really judge. Let's see how Bing's results from twitter are and then wait for Google. I think that a success will be how they will mine the results. Today from the search results in twitter-search are pretty lame and useless. If Bing or Google can reduce the noisy ratio an get useful results, then we will have a winner.

I did the same but using the site in advance search in google. I will try the other methods. However a small search field would be nice.