Art Project – Google+ Google Reader Still Drives Far More Traffic Than Google+ lapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine TIME and Space | By Jeffrey Kluger Editors note:On Nov. 29, 2016, Google released a major update expanding the data from 2012 to 2016. Read about the update here. Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Over here is Dubai, growing from sparse desert metropolis to modern, sprawling megalopolis. It took the folks at Google to upgrade these choppy visual sequences from crude flip-book quality to true video footage. These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve. Chapter 1: Satellite Story | By Jeffrey Kluger It’s a safe bet that few people who have grown up in the Google era have ever heard of Stewart Udall. But in 1966, Udall and his staff had an idea. 1 of 20 1 of 14
Abandoning the Unprofitable: Google Reader and the Cruel Logic of the It-Gets-Better Business Written by Michael Thomsen (@mike_thomsen) Progress is only exciting in the first stages, when a fanciful idea becoming an attainable thing is most delightful. But if progress exists, it must also be maintained over long periods of time, to ensure its benefits remain in place even for those who've forgotten they're there. This week Google announced it will be closing its Reader service on July 1 for "two simple reasons," a decline in users and a desire to focus on a smaller number of products in the future. For many in the West the news was a reminder the dusty old service still existed, having long been surpassed by a number of reader alternatives more flexible and responsive to the increasingly varied habits of, and devices for, internet reading.The closure is also a reminder that progress always has a point of view, identifying groups of people as an audience worth serving while implicitly identifying others as unworthy.
Time to back away from the cookie jar? Introducing nutrition info in search Figuring out how to make smart choices about some of our favorite foods can often be a cumbersome and daunting process. So we’re hoping we can make those choices a little bit easier: starting today you will be able to quickly and easily find extensive nutrition information for over 1,000 fruits, vegetables, meats and meals in search. From the basics of potatoes and carrots to more complex dishes like burritos and chow mein, you can simply ask, “How much protein is in a banana?” This new nutritional information builds on our work on the Knowledge Graph, which brings together all kinds of information from across the web that wasn't easily accessible. This feature will begin to launch today in English and will be rolling out in the US over the next ten days.
RSS: Google Reader est mort, et c'est tant mieux Google vient d'annoncer la mise à mort de son service de flux RSS, Google Reader, d'ici l'été 2013. Laissez-moi d'abord présenter mes sincères condoléances aux millions de personnes qui utilisent Google Reader –dont certains qui ont appris la triste nouvelle le jour de leur anniversaire–, et ont été choquées par cette nouvelle brutale. Si vous faites partie de ces internautes, quelques conseils pratiques: Google explique comment exporter ses données, voici un Google doc listant toutes les alternatives au service de flux RSS (et les cinq préférés de Cnet), et voilà une pétition pour demander à Google de ne pas tuer Reader. Par ailleurs, si vous aimez Google Reader, c'est que vous aimez les flux RSS. Et si vous aimez les flux RSS, la mort de Google Reader peut en fait être vue comme une excellente nouvelle. publicité Le créateur d'Instapaper Marco Arment rappelle ainsi que quand l'outil a été lancé en 2005, avant les iPhones, «il a détruit le marché pour les clients RSS d'ordinateurs.
A Brief History of Google Places [Infographic] | David Mihm SEOs tend to work themselves into a frenzy over every minor news announcement that comes out of Mountain View–and one could probably say Local SEOs lie on the extreme end of the spectrum. In some respects, it's understandable. Our space is constantly evolving, and to ignore these announcements can put us at a significant disadvantage relative to peers who are paying closer attention. At the same time, this frenetic pace can lead to a bit of information overload, and an inability to see the bigger picture–both in terms of Google's algorithm itself, and more broadly in terms of where the company is headed as it tries to stay ahead of its many competitors. I focus exclusively these days on a very small niche of SEO–Google Places– and even in this tiny little sliver of the online marketing world, I've found myself struggling to keep up over the past several months. + PDF Version (8.5" X 11") + PNG Version (1600px X 1200px) What do you think? David Mihm January 3, 2013 Portland, Oregon
khomille: Euh, allô ? T'es Google et... gheat - heatmaps for Google Maps Google Maps gives you API for adding additional map layers. This software implements a map tile server for a heatmap layer. Gheat for ... Gheat for App Engine Gheat for Aspen (original version) Gheat for CGI (Apache, MongoDB) Gheat for Django Gheat for Google Earth (and offline use in general) Gheat for .NET Gheat for OpenGL and CherryPy Gheat for Pylons Gheat for Java Competitors Examples Please tell me (chad@zetaweb.com) if you'd like a link here. Earth911 uses gheat to show real-time recycling searches. Ben O'Steen made a student property heatmap. Tada is using pylons_gheat to visualize sales. Where Do You Go is using gheat-ae to visualize FourSquare checkins. NumberInvestigator is using gheat (with portions ported to PHP) to generate hourly maps of telemarketing victims. Color of Change used gheat to visualize stories of what Obama's election meant to voters and how they participated in the campaign. Full Documentation How it Works Dependencies
Google Reader est mort, vive le RSS ! Que fut le plus choquant : le fond ou la forme de l'annonce ? Hier soir, à l'heure avancée où les internautes hexagonaux auraient dû éteindre leur PC depuis belle lurette, est tombé le billet de Google sur son blog officiel. «Nouvelle session du ménage de notre printemps» , annonçait le titre... Vu la teneur de la première session, qui a consisté fin 2011 à fermer quelques uns des services Google les plus anecdotiques (Sidewiki, Fast Flip...), on aurait très bien pu choisir de ne pas lire ce billet-là. Bon, d'accord, on sur-dramatise un poil. Son rôle est de regrouper sur une même page des flux d'articles en provenance de différents sites web dont on souhaite suivre l'actualité. Oui mais voilà : «si le produit a une base d'utilisateurs fidèles, son usage a décliné au fil des années» , constate Google sans daigner se justifier davantage. Google... Les joies de la concurrence Il est donc temps pour toutes les victimes du jour de redécouvrir les joies de la concurrence. Feedly
Google Blogoscoped Google Operating System (Unofficial Google Blog) Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO Fitbit has discontinued their Fitbit One step trackers, which seems like a good opportunity to step back and reflect on wearing one for the last decade or so. I’ve enjoyed using Fitbit trackers, but the One devices seemed like they broke down too often. I’m pretty proud that I ended up earning all the activity-related Fitbit badges though: In 2013, I ran a 50 mile race and I took 110,472 steps that day. But the Rainbow badge was a little harder: 700 floors in one day. DC isn’t known for its high buildings. That’s how I found myself on a Sunday morning in July 2018. Wait a second–the badge is only for 700 floors, so why did I climb 800+ floors? Overall, Fitbit’s badges have probably pushed me to walk more, along with a goal to get 10,000 steps a day.
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