Recipeasy
This is my idea to use Wave to make my life easier. A Wave bot which detects food names from your conversation and adds them to a gadget which suggests recipes. If a supermarket chain built this they could deliver the missing ingredients to your house!
Read more about it on the Google Developers Blog >
Recipe tear off cards in supermarkets, advertising the bot:
Chrome adds less ads
“It’s unlikely that ad blockers will get to the level where they imperil the advertising market, because if advertising is so annoying that a large segment of the population wants to block it, then advertising needs to get less annoying.
“There will always be some group of people who want to block ads for personal reasons. But if we do a good job on the advertising side, people won’t want to block ads. People will find them actually useful.
“I think there will be a nice equilibrium. If people get too aggressive with ads, then ad blockers will become more popular and companies will get less aggressive with ads. The market will sort itself.”
- Linus Upson via >
This is what james cameron should have done
instead of making that stupid movie. This is way cooler.
Funny wifi names
This reminds me of when we first moved into our 48th floor apartment in the middle of Sydney and the net wasn’t connected yet. There were plenty of wifi networks, but the only one which wasn’t secure was called “FUCK YOU PEOPLE STEALING MY INTERNET”. Lol.
Another reason for twins
Could this even be a Christmas present idea for Boyfriend’s twin siblings? (one is a male with big build and the other a super skinny female) perhaps more funny if they look nothing alike?
[edit] he thinks it’s a terrible idea and pointed out that one of them won’t understand it at all.
Here’s the original from Macworld 1986:
A tribute to web 1.0
I always liked angelfire better than geocities because it was easier to code my own websites. However it is sad to hear this important part of our childhood is being deleted.
To commemorate the death of geocities today, xkcd.com have destroyed their homepage with broken images, blinking text and an annoying background.
Speaking of horrible websites, how funny is it that Yvette’s Bridal and Formal comes up first when you google search “worst bridal website”? That’s some good SEO.
Wonderwall website
My uni teacher, Paul White, said that a good ad is one you wish you’d come up with yourself. That philosophy can certainly describe how I feel about the wonderwall website via swiss miss >
Google wave geek group
photo by @gadgetfarmer
Last night we went to this thing at Google (that’s me in the red cardigan). There were lots of geeks, and pies.
I still have yet to establish how this product will be useful for non-nerds, can you think of anything?
If you were a scrabble piece which letter would you be?
So you read The Game, and now all the girls recognise your “pick up” moves and think you’re a complete loser. Yes, I truly do mean you, also unsubscribe from the Stylelife EDMs it’s embarrassing for everyone involved to see those in your inbox.
Sexism on Google Wave, it’s finally here
I started a public Wave asking if there were any girls around, and if so where they all were (I have only seen posts from men). The first response I got was “tits or gfo”, but before I could even read that and cringe another man edited the comment out (and also sent me some cool women to talk to on Wave).
It was like the XKCD comic below:
I’ve got a Wave account…
I was pretty sure I would be in the first round of Wave invites; I signed up in the first hour, the company I work for spends lots of money with Google, I get invited over there for lunch etc. But it seemed they did not like my haiku and I missed out in the first 100,000.
So next plan? Dress up like a surfer and go down to the Sydney Google offices and ask Doctor Wave himself for an account… and it worked! (Photo above Doctor Wave and Anna Rose).
I’ve given out four of my invites to those who I speak to on gmail/ share calendars etc with already, but have four more invites to give out so if you’d like one go to annarosekerr.com/wave and find out how to get one.
I will post a review of the system when James gets his invite and I actually have someone to Wave with. Exciting!
A gallery of Google logos
I’ve always thought that designing the special event Google logos would be a dream job for me. Above is my favourite, from when the LHC was turned on.
See Over 300 Unique and Creative Google Logo Designs here
Don’t add your boss on facebook if you’re a n00b
FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants.
Was this the muse for the firefox logo?
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Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Goat’s Horn with Red” |
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I’m thinking it probably wasn’t – given that firefox is a fox not a goat and all. But it is always interesting seeing comparisons from art to logos.
from ArtsJournal >
