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Zeitgeist 2010

Zeitgeist 2010

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.

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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. At one point in the interview Rose ask Mayer about Yahoo. 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.” See Charlie’s recent interviews with the MySpace founders, Reid Hoffman, Larry Lessig and Marc Andreessen. Full Transcript (with sections bolded for emphasis): Charlie Rose: We are back in San Francisco this evening with Marissa Mayer. Marissa Mayer: Thank you. Charlie Rose: Oh, it’s great to have you here. Marissa Mayer: In ten years. Charlie Rose: Right. Charlie Rose: Yes.

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. Personally, I find this type of Google project the most exciting. Google is in a unique position to tackle large-scale projects like this one because of its clout and resources.

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. Vous ne pouvez plus partager votre position via Latitude, mais vous pouvez toujours utiliser vos informations de localisation à diverses fins : Partager la position sur Google+ Vous pouvez partager votre position avec vos amis sur Google+ via l'application Google+ sur votre appareil Android ou iOS. Remarque : Les paramètres de l'historique des positions et de la mise à jour de la position ne sont plus compatibles avec Google Maps pour mobile 6.14.4 ou version antérieure. Vous pouvez observer d'autres changements : Les check-ins ont été désactivés sur Google Maps pour mobile.

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. Perhaps most intriguing is the following video provided by Google that shows how quickly users glance around result pages: The bigger the dot, the longer the person sat looking at a particular part of the page. This heatmap-like image, which is named the “golden triangle”, also suggests that people spend a lot more time evaluating the whole results at the top of the page than the ones further down. For more, see our previous coverage of Google’s usability lab.

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. Google had planned to activate the feature on Wednesday morning, but a spokesman said there would be a short delay because of technical difficulties. Of the 7,000 buildings in the 1.0 version, around 250 are extremely detailed. Mr.

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