Google Australia launched Gday today, a new search engine that allows users to search a day in advance of real time:
Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast [...]
With a few notable exceptions, the hard-living, party-hearty, carbon-pumping world of rock ‘n roll excess doesn’t earn many green points. But that’s going to change, thanks to Tommy Lee and Ludacris and a new show on Planet Green called Battleground Earth. Yep, rock and rap are going head to head in a battle against the [...]
I recently discovered that April is dubbed, Keep America Beautiful month. I am happy to live in a well-maintained field, but here there is evidence of abuse and neglect of the earth. I suppose God simply shaking his head in disappointment at the way in which we treat this beautiful world He created. 1 [...]
Facebook isn’t just messing around with a few European language translations any more. They’re using their new user-powered translation engine to get Facebook into 22 more languages, on top of English, French, German and Spanish.
It will take some time for users to translate the sites, and Facebook likes to stagger launches to maximize PR. If [...]
TheFunded, a site where entrepreneurs can leave anonymous feedback about their experiences with venture capitalists, has created quite a stir on Sand Hill Road. Rarely do I meet with a VC without the subject of it coming up, and how unfair it is. The fact that the site is now publishing confidential term sheet clauses [...]
Google’s Web-based word processor, Google Docs, can now be used offline to view and edit documents in your browser. That means you no longer need to be connected to the Internet to write a letter or draft an agreement. When you connect again, all your changes are updated. Google Docs now joins [...]
Seattle based wiki-startup Wetpaint has been talking to a number of big content sites about a new product they’ll be releasing soon, we’ve heard. The screen shot above is a mock-up that Wetpaint is using to pitch potential partners.
The product is an embeddable wysiwyg wiki. That alone is interesting, just because there aren’t any easy [...]
