10 Great Google Slideshows Yesterday we dug out a cool slideshow which tries to tell us, in a mere 34 slides, everything there is to know about Google. It's not the only Google-related slideshow out there, though; in fact, we've found dozens of them. Here's a selection of ten we've found to be either very useful or interesting. Google for Life Science Researchers A couple of useful tips for Life Science researches which are, in fact, applicable to everyone. An introduction to Google Analytics Need to quickly explain someone what Google Analytics is and what it does? Google Analytics: Measuring Interactions A presentation discussing ways to make Google Analytics measure interactions on a website (instead of mere pageviews). Google: Strategic Analysis A short but solid analysis of Google's position in the search engine market. Google & Apple Common Brand Values A short study discussing the similarities between Google and Apple brands. Google Facts Some interesting facts about Google, its market share, and its competition.
Love Google. Hate Facebook. Here’s Why | Epicenter Recently, I’ve been working on a big research project. Yesterday, I had Delicious links, PDFs, spreadsheets and Word documents open on my desktop when I came across a couple of useful presentations on Scribd. I’ll have them, I thought. So I clicked. What happened next surprised me: I was given the choice of logging in via Scribd or Facebook. Nudging is a risky business. Facebook? Specifically, my business. Nudging is the name given by the authors Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein to describe the art of influencing user behavior by presenting options in specific ways. Last month, TechCrunch spotted a good example. Previously, Facebook forced users to choose between Confirm and Ignore. So what? Nothing. Or is it? Some companies do it less than others. Aggressive nudging causes problems. Something like this, I suspect, happened to Windows during the past decade as Microsoft struggled to cope with the emergence of the web. Continue reading …
for iPad on the iTunes App Store Quick Search Box Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web. With Quick Search Box you can search for information from just about anywhere. You can then perform actions on the search results, such as launching applications, emailing friends, or playing a song. If you are interested in participating in the Quick Search Box development process, download the app or build it from source. We are eager to involve users in the development process and will be posting new builds frequently. Over the coming months we'll be posting a few articles about the architecture and interaction we are exploring, and we look forward to your feedback. To find out more, please visit the GettingStarted page.
The 9 Least Retweeted Words Ranked By SmartData Collective url?sa=t&rct=j&q=lino&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDYQFjAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Flino-sticky-photo-sharing%2Fid416718906%3Fmt%3D8&ei=DwHCUceAFdCjqwG8noCoAQ&usg=AFQjCNElYDdts5N-D6pDRi3j_M8nOWGWXw&bvm=bv.47883778,d How to use the new Google web search RSS feeds Google's been the lone hold out among major search engines on RSS but the company quietly enabled feeds for web search results this week. The offering is pretty limited and frustrating, you have to go through Google Alerts to get an obscure RSS URL, but we offer a tutorial and some strategic advice in this post. Web search RSS is useful for being alerted whenever search results for your keywords or link have changed; subscribing to at least a few searches will let you know when Google users are seeing something new in the first few pages of search results for your company name, for example. How to Get the Feeds All the other major search engines make it really easy to grab a feed for any web search, but Google is probably concerned about spammers finding bizarre and unscrupulous uses for its feeds. To get a feed for a Google search you have to go to the web page for Google Alerts and set up an alert for your search. More Advanced Options Here's how we're using the new Google search feeds.
My Last Post – Some Things I’ve Learned at BBH Me in the Googleplex ball pool, September 2010. I stumbled through the door of BBH London on March 29 2005. I was terrified. Three moments defined my first few months there. Like every new hire I had a brief meet & greet with Nigel Bogle in week one. Anyway, in week one (literally Day 2, if I recall correctly) I found myself pitching for Google. Third, just weeks after BBH won the Google pitch, I was on the British Airways pitch. Anyway, all rather dull historical context. In any case, here are a few of the things I’ve learned along the way, from BBH London days (Google & BA), through Head of Account Planning & ZAG leadership in NY, BBH Labs start-up and (once again) to Google days over here in NYC, & my most recent Innovation role. Only people matter They matter more than clients, more than teams, more than fancy buildings, smart suits or posh titles; they matter even more than the ideas. Awesome is always scary The vast chasm between really good and extraordinary is filled with fear.
App Discovery | Developer Tools | Premium Marketing Network Send in-app & push notifications Collect and answer user feedback like never before Drive organic reviews in the App Store/Google Play Store Cross-promote your apps for free Let’s put you in touch with your users. How to recover your Google account From Wired How-To Wiki Recently some high-profile people have found themselves suddenly locked out of their Google Accounts. The lockouts have started some rumbling in the blogosphere that maybe, just maybe, we’re all a little too reliant on Gmail and the rest of Google’s very handy, but potentially unreliable, services. It’s about time we started waking up. However, while Stallman thinks the cloud itself is a bad idea, in reality putting all your eggs in one basket — whether that basket is your hard drive or your Gmail account — is plain stupid. This article is a wiki. What to Do if You Can't Access Your Account Now If you do get locked out of your Google Account for some reason, be prepared to wait. The two pages Google offers to reinstate your account are available here and, to create a support ticket, here. What Preventative Steps Can You Take Now How do I do that, you ask? Create some backup accounts — This one is so obvious it's always surprising to hear not everyone does it.
The future of web standards Contrary to popular opinion, the phrase 'Web 2.0' was not coined by Tim O'Reilly and did not, originally, refer to web applications like Facebook and Twitter that enable Muggles, er, non-web-professionals, to share information online. More than a decade ago, Darcy DiNucci predicted that: "The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfulls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. This first use of the phrase 'Web 2.0' was a vision of what we now call ubiquitous computing and what marketers call convergence. Certainly "your TV set" hasn't become the hippest place for hot Web 2.0 action in most countries, unless you consider downloading episodes of The Real Housewives of New Jersey the height of web-based interactivity. But DiNucci looks a positive oracle where her "cell phone" prediction is concerned, because the ubiquity of high-resolution CSS3- and HTML5- capable smartphones powered by WebKit is bringing real, empowering change to our medium. Convergence
Apps Gone Free (Best Daily Top App Deals) The Google Alphabet, 2008 edition Google has added Google Suggest to their homepage. When Google suggest first-launched Buster McLeod (AKA Erik Benson) checked the suggested term for each letter to create the Google Alphabet, 2004 edition. When Google News Suggest launched in 2006 I did the same. Now in honor of Google Suggest graduating from labs here is the annotated Google Alphabet, 2008 edition: How does Google’s algorithms choose the alphabet, err top term? Here’s Yahoo! Its no surprise that Spybot is gone, but I would have guessed that Skype would come out above Sears. The Olympics beat out second-place Orkut right now, but I wonder how long it will retain the top spot before coming back again in 2010. People are more likely to look for free stuff than the news, not surprising that Craigslist is ahead of CNN: It’s been a long, close battle, but Photobucket has definitely beaten out Paypal and Paris Hilton.
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