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About - App Inventor for Android. Zeitgeist. Marissa Mayer's Next Big Thing: "Contextual Discovery ... Today at LeWeb ’10 in Paris, France, our own Michael Arrington took the stage to talk with Google’s Marissa Mayer. Mayer recently took a new job within Google. Technically, she’s now the head of consumer products for the company. So what’s she working on? Well, as we’ve all heard, location is a big part of it.

“The idea is to push information to people,” Mayer said. Mayer said they’re still thinking about how the UI for all of this should look, but they have some ideas. “We’re trying to build a virtual mirror of the world at all times,” Mayer said. Below, find my live notes of the entire discussion (paraphrased): MA: So, you now have a new job MM: We’re calling it consumer products broadly.

MA: Why give up search and do something different? MM: Well I had done it for about 11 years. MA: Let’s talk more about contextual discovery. MM: The idea is to push information to people. MA: Latitude is one of your products. MM: (Laughs) I use it. MA: But you are an avid Foursquare user. MM: I am. Home Page - Google TV.

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To sign up or for more information, contact us. Client-side APIs Web Services Maps Image APIs Places API Maps Mobile SDK Other API documentation includes: Tracks API, Coordinate API, and the Google Maps Engine API. Dive Into The Five Great Lakes With Google Earth. Marissa Mayer On Charlie Rose: The Future Of Google, Future Of Search. Charlie Rose, who’s been focusing lately on Silicon Valley personalities, interviewed Google Vice President Marissa Mayer last night.

In a long and broad ranging discussion, Marissa talks about the product development cycle at Google as well as the future of search and other key areas of technology. At one point in the interview Rose ask Mayer about Yahoo. Her diplomatic answer – an independent Yahoo is best for the web. She also says the biggest problem facing them is their loss of human talent over the last couple of years. Regarding search, she says its a big and growing problem. On social networking, she admits Google’s Orkut has largely fallen flat (other than in Brazil and India). And, oddly enough, she says that one of the goals behind developing Google’s Chrome browser is to “make the web as fast as turning the page in a magazine.” Marissa Mayer: Thank you. Google’s PowerMeter Project: For When The Web’s Data Is Not Enough. Google has announced its plan to help consumers gain better information about their personal electricity usage. The plan, which is listed on Google’s philanthropic website, promotes the adoption of smart electricity meters in homes across the world.

These smart meters are better than regular meters because they can provide detailed information about usage rates throughout the day, theoretically letting consumers make smarter decisions about when to leave the lights on or when to run the dryer. But since installing these devices in homes won’t automatically make the information they gather available to users, Google is also developing a software tool called Google PowerMeter (presumably a web app) that puts this information at people’s finger tips. We can only guess that the graph below is something that this application would produce, since Google hasn’t showed any of it off to the general public yet. Personally, I find this type of Google project the most exciting. Latitude.

Google Latitude a été supprimé le 9 août 2013. Les produits supprimés sont entre autres les suivants : Google Latitude dans Google Maps pour Android, Latitude pour iPhone, l'API Latitude, le badge public, le widget iGoogle et le site Web de Latitude à l'adresse maps.google.com/latitude. Qu'est-ce que cela implique pour moi ? Vous ne pouvez plus utiliser Latitude pour partager votre position.

Nous n'avons pas intégré Latitude à la nouvelle version de Google Maps pour mobile pour Android, et l'application Latitude pour iPhone n'est plus proposée sur l'App Store. La liste de vos amis sur Latitude n'est plus visible. Vous ne pouvez plus consulter ni gérer vos amis. Ces derniers ne pourront plus voir votre position via Google Maps pour mobile pour Android, Latitude pour iPhone, le badge public, le widget iGoogle ni sur le site Web de Latitude disponible à l'adresse maps.google.com/latitude, si vous continuez à utiliser ces produits.

Vous pouvez observer d'autres changements : Google Sets Its Sights On Your Sight. Google has published a bit of an insider’s look on how the company conducts eye-tracking studies to evaluate the effectiveness of its search results. In addition to holding interviews, field studies and live experiments to improve the usability of its products, Google has special hardware and software that tracks test participants’ eyeballs as they scan results for the perfect link.

The official blog post doesn’t detail any groundbreaking discoveries that have been produced by this testing technique. It sounds as though it has mostly helped Google confirm the obvious: that the first few results it returns are indeed usually the most relevant, and its so-called “universal search” effort (where it mixes rich media results like images and video thumbnails among the standard text results) doesn’t distract users too much but has actually proven rather useful. Perhaps most intriguing is the following video provided by Google that shows how quickly users glance around result pages: Exploring Old Rome Without Air (or Time) Travel. Soaring above a virtual reconstruction of the Forum and the Palatine Hill or zooming into the Colosseum to get a lion’s-eye view of the stands, Google Earth’s 400 million users will be able to explore the ancient capital as easily “as any city can be explored today,” Michael T.

Jones, chief technology officer of Google Earth, said Wednesday at a news conference at Rome’s city hall. Ancient Rome 3D, as the new feature is known, is a digital elaboration of some 7,000 buildings recreating Rome circa A.D. 320, at the height of Constantine’s empire, when more than a million inhabitants lived within the city’s Aurelian walls. In Google Earth-speak it is a “layer” to which visitors gain access through its Gallery database of images and information. “In this case the layer is above ground and not below where it should be” from an archaeological point of view, said Bernard Frischer, the director of the ’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.