Google Docs Basically Sucks
The quality of the generated HTML is poor and we need to be able embed custom stylesheets … and do something about those nasty URLs!
Vox Populi
A paper by Sir Francis Galton first published in the March 7, 1907 issue of the scientific journal, NATURE. The paper provides what appears to be the first solid explanation for why Google’s ranking algorithm, not to mention the form of government we've come to know as “democracy”, are so capable.
analogies.google.com
Need an analogy but don’t have the time to actually think of one your self?
Not to bring up an old topic but..
Who Owns Your Browser revisited.
Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s infrastructure
Interesting. I've been using the jquery-1.2.3.js hosted on google code for a few months now. Maybe I should have read the TOS…
Google Doctype
What Mark Pilgrim has been working on at Google for the past year or so: an encyclopedia of web development.
Clouds Rolling In: The Google App Engine Q&A
Stephen O'Grady with the obligatory Q&A, which is excellent as always.
App Engine and Open Source
Ian Bicking: “Many people are excited about how far up you might be able to scale something based on App Engine, but I’m excited about how far it could be scaled down.”
Google App Engine
Christmas in Python land! Run Python/WSGI code on Google’s infrastructure. This is an incredibly H U G E win for the Python web community and further validates WSGI’s architectural awesomeness.
20 Year Archive on Google Groups
I'm apparently the last person on the internet to see this. The rise of internet culture as recorded on Usenet. It’s beautiful, really.
Google Super Tuesday Twitter Map View Thingy
Watch tweets pop up around the country on a google map as people comment on the goings-on of Super Tuesday.
Google Chart API Developer's Guide
I would use this ASAP if not for the privacy requirements around the data I'm charting. There’s really no good general purpose graphing libraries that use nice and simple vector shapes and styles.
Advanced Python (or Understanding Python)
Thomas Wouters covers a ton of ground (quickly) on lots of Python’s interesting features. This may be the quickest way for newbies (or refugees) to come up to speed with the language.
Adam Bosworth Leaves Google [searchengineland.com]
I'm convinced that anything health related will be a tough space. It’s a bit surprising at how little the Google Health team put out, though, given that Bosworth has one of the best track records in technology. Weird.
Can't save in Google Docs? Disable Firebug!
Grrrrr. This has been driving me crazy for almost two weeks. I don’t understand why the main google search doesn’t include google groups – I thought the whole point was to put everything behind a single search box. Bha.
Lever and fulcrum
“Jim Gray reminded me that TerraServer does offer SOAP interfaces. And yet those interfaces demonstrably have not inspired a flurry of innovation. Why not?”
Gizoogle - Fo all you beotches who wanna find shiznit
All yo resizzle is shizzilated and shizzle, nizzle..
The New York Times : Letter to the Editor : Are Google's New Libraries a Good Thing?
hahah ahahahah ahahah ahahaa! BBbwwwwhhahahahaaa! ha. hhhaaa. huuh…. ohhhhhh..
Help the Googlebot
Tips and techniques for helping Googlebot. If you are a symantic markup perfectionist, you probably already have most of these right.
Google.rss - Serves you Google's search results as RSS feed.
This could be really really really big.