Google Earth: Rückspulen jetzt bis 1943
Die sich quer über die nördliche Innenstadt erstreckende Wolke zeigt es:die Westfalenhütte ist auf Sendung Read more...
hebig.org/blog, Today, 1:12pm
These little fees add up
We are all getting used to the idea of freemium but I am wondering if this will not implode because things are starting to add up. I really noticed when recently thinking (again) about how to restructure my services. Read more...
Blog, Today, 1:14am
Foursquare will fail
At least in terms of becoming the next Twitter. Sorry to say that. I know people are starting to rave about Twitter but the first really good post came from Jason Kincaid on Techcrunch: Watch out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate Geo. Read more...
Blog, Today, 1:14am
WordPress: DB Cache und Fehlermeldungen
Bei der WordPress-Installation eines guten Freundes gab Fehlermeldungen wenn man versucht hat eine bestimmte Seite (Page) zu bearbeiten. Nach dem Speichern bzw. Aktualisieren der Seite gab es folgende Fehlermeldung zu lesen:
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /…/wp-includes/post.php on line 1980
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /…/wp-includes/post.php:1980) in [...] Read more...
Peruns Weblog, Yesterday, 6:04pm
Foodspotting ist Dönerstag mit anderen Mitteln
Nein, man braucht Foodspotting nicht, um den Tag zu überstehen. Aber wenn man Inspirationen rund ums Essen sucht, dann wird man hier schnellstens fündig. Keine Restaurantkrtiken, keine Rezepte, sondern einfach nur Fotos von tollem Essen. User laden diese sog. Sightings hoch, andere User können ausdrücken, ob sie das Essen interessant finden oder gar unbedingt auch [...] Read more...
Lummaland, Yesterday, 4:34pm
Als noch gemabbert wurde
Matthias Heine führte für die FAS ein Interview mit dem Linguisten Lothar Lemnitzer mit der klingenden Überschrift Ein bisschen mabbern zum Mondscheintarif. Klingend deshalb, weil Mabber mein Startup war, das vor 5 Jahren versuchte, Instant Messaging auf dem Desktop, dem Web und mobil miteinander zu verknüpfen, und dabei u.a. viel zu früh am Markt war, [...] Read more...
Lummaland, Yesterday, 11:42am
Google Street View Hong Kong
Google released Street View imagery for Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a fun and busy place where it's easy to get lost, perhaps less so with these photo maps. [Thanks Keith!] Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Yesterday, 5:03am
Links for 2010-03-10 [del.icio.us]
President Obama Appoints Edward Tufte--Big Victory for Data Visualization And Transparent Government - BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek: Obama appoints Tufte. We need more Designers in Goverment! http://bit.ly/9W2ZWO #fb4 #dynamicinfo
Der Berliner Szenemensch | Spreeblick
Irgendwie empfinde ich diese Satire eher als Tatsachenbericht: Der Berliner Szenemensch http://bit.ly/bSBAvi
KommtEssen! Gesund und klimafreundlich essen.
Re-branding Branding
1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully... Read more...
details of a global brain, Yesterday, 3:00am
Reader Play, Google's Slideshow of Interesting Stuff
OK, I can see myself waste some time with this. Google Reader Play is a casual, push style way to feed yourself distracting/ enlightening/ inspiring snippets, imagery and videos. You can star a specific page, Like it or share it, but just jumping from page to page using the bottom navigation works too.
Note Reader Play is personalized. Google writes, "We use the technology behind Recommended Items in Reader to populate Reader Play with the most interesting content on the web. While you don’t need a Google account to use Reader Play, your experience will be personalized if you ... Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 10, 6:13pm
Metropolis
Heute abend wird auf der Berlinale die rekonstruierte Fassung von Fritz Langs „Metropolis“ uraufgeführt. arte übertragt im TV, ab 19:45 gibt es zusätzlich einen Livestream. Filminformationen (PDF) bei berlinale.de, Besprechung des begleitenden Buchs der Deutschen Kinemathek bei schnitt.de. Read more...
hebig.org/blog, Mar 10, 1:12pm
No, we can't translate "Yes we can"
Ten years ago, the best-available translation software analysed the source text to determine its structure: subject, object, nouns, verbs, phrases, etc. From the structure tree, a new text could be generated in the target language.
The precise details of Google's translation algorithms are not published, but the structure tree is not the main mechanism. Instead, there is a corpus -- an enormous database of parallel works. These are works available in more than one language as a result of a previous human translation.
Based on equivalents found in the corpus, Google obtains translations for various multi-word fragments from the source text, then blends those together into what is usually a coherent sentence in the target language.
The system doesn't work so well on fragments that weren't translated in the c ... Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 10, 10:37am
Chrome OS is not more multitasking than the iPad
I am starting to wonder if people have no clue or if I am just clueless and I seriously do not want to believe that. The thing is that everybody is complaining that Apple's iPad is not doing multitasking. Fine by me. Most things do not really need multitasking though and if the modal screens for push messages is improved you can stay online in your skype account or do other things. Sure it would be nice to be able to move a video to a small screen and continue browsing the web, but we will survive. Read more...
Blog, Mar 10, 1:15am
WordPress: Datenbank reparieren
Vorhin begrüßte mich ein fettes "Error establishing a database connection" als ich dieses Blog aufgerufen habe. "Na toll" dachte ich mir und ging von schlimmsten aus: Blog gehackt, Server explodiert etc. Als ich mich dann in phpMyAdmin einloggen konnte, war ich etwas beruhigt und sehr schnell konnte ich das Problem erkennen. In der [...] Read more...
Peruns Weblog, Mar 9, 4:01am
Is the iPad just a new BeIA?
It was nagging me for some time and now I found back the pages about the wonderful BeIA. Remember the time Apple bought Next? The other company that was in the pitch was Be, Inc. At the time Be, Inc. had BeOS as a Desktop operating system and was getting ready to release the first versions of BeIA, a tablet OS. Read more...
Blog, Mar 8, 1:12pm
Variable Speed for YouTube Videos
If you've opted in to YouTube's HTML5 experiment, the videos will play in your own browser's player, instead of in an Adobe Flash player. This was discussed in the Forum a few weeks ago.
YouTube can serve HTML5 videos if you have an HTML5-capable browser with the h.264 video codec (i.e. Chrome but not Chromium, Safari v4+, or IE with Google Chrome Frame). Videos containing ads continue to use the Flash player.
YouTube has implemented a variable speed control for their HTML5 videos. Next to the play/pause button is a small arrow. When clicked, it opens up a panel containing a slider and two icons: a hare and a tortoise.
As you can probably gues ... Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 8, 8:16am
Gekürzte Feeds und Blogs monetarisieren
Das Thema "vollständige vs. gekürzte Feeds" ist ein Thema das ständig auf Sparflamme im Hintergrund läuft um sich alle paar Wochen für eine kurze Zeit in den Vordergrund zu drücken. Wie neulich durch die Entscheidung der Betreiber von Basic Thinking den Newsfeed zu kürzen.
Meine Meinung zum Thema "gekürzte oder volle Feeds" habe ich schon mehrfach [...] Read more...
Peruns Weblog, Mar 8, 6:50am
WordPress 3.0: Updates bekommen einen prominenteren Menüpunkt
Nach dem Feature Freeze am 1. März geht es in die finale Runde der derzeitigen Entwicklung der WordPress-Version 3.0. Was hat sich neben den hier schon beschriebenen Änderungen in den letzten Tagen getan?
Der Menüpunkt Updates wurde von den Werkzeugen in den Menüpunkt Dashboard verschoben. Er wurde zudem erweitert um den Punkt Themes. Themes, die upgedatet [...] Read more...
Peruns Weblog, Mar 8, 6:02am
Criticism of Google at Wikipedia
Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to criticism of Google. Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 8, 3:43am
Do Some People Confuse Public and Private Buzz Messages?
Do some people confuse public Buzz messages with private email conversations? I don't know, but some of the following conversations I found using Gmail's Buzz search sounded a bit odd. One of the conversation, for instance, was by a person who only follows one person and only has one follower. Then again, how would this misunderstanding come about, if that's the case, as Buzz says "Public on the web" next to the Post button, and doesn't offer a field to address only a single person? Gmail puts private emails and public buzz messages in one app, one click away in the interface... is that enough to trigger misunderstandings? I've obfuscated some parts in these screenshots. Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 8, 3:41am
Links for 2010-03-07 [del.icio.us]
Harmony - Procedural drawing tool
Popular Search Engines in the 90’s: Then and Now Read more...
details of a global brain, Mar 8, 3:00am
The Ask-Our-Computer Service (from 1967)
This snippet is from Popular Science, May 1967, page 94:
[Hat tip to George R!] Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 7, 11:48am
I just ordered the International Kindle
I just ordered an International Kindle and boy am I looking forward to it. There has been some discussion going on about the prices for Books in the USA and for example here in Germany. Just read this on the Guardian. Read more...
Blog, Mar 7, 1:13am
Kindle: The Good, The Bad, And The Weird
I am starting to use my Kindle more and more. Hence it was time to finally write about it. To start with, I have to say that I really like it, just so you have a frame of reference for the rest of this article. I will try to go into some of the bad things as well as things that I would categorize as weird, as well as the good sides, finishing of with some basic ideas of where this will go in the future. Read more...
Blog, Mar 7, 1:13am
These little fees add up
We are all getting used to the idea of freemium but I am wondering if this will not implode because things are starting to add up. I really noticed when recently thinking (again) about how to restructure my services. Read more...
Blog, Mar 7, 1:13am
Foursquare will fail
At least in terms of becoming the next Twitter. Sorry to say that. I know people are starting to rave about Twitter but the first really good post came from Jason Kincaid on Techcrunch: Watch out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate Geo. Read more...
Blog, Mar 7, 1:13am
What Google Chrome OS really means
All focus is currently on Google Chrome OS and what it will mean for our beloved NetBooks. I somehow have the feeling people are not thinking far enough because our geeky NetBooks are totally irrelevant. Read more...
Blog, Mar 7, 1:13am
Blippy just Rocks!
Boy do I love Blippy! Seldom has there been a service where I am so pissed that internationalization is hard. The thing is the only account I have that works with the service is my Amazon.com Kindle account. Even iTunes doesn't work as it is the German one. If you are unfamiliar with Blippy read this intro on Techcrunch as well as the follow up where Blippy announces tracking $1 million in transactions only one day after opening their doors. People are already talking about Blippy being the next Twitter, which is really mostly to mean that the Twitter idea is starting to be so big that it can be split up into more tiny niches, with Blippy being one. Read more...
Blog, Mar 7, 1:13am
Frage an die Mac-Nutzer: Texteditor
Ich habe da eine Frage an die Macianer unter meinen Lesern. Gibt es bzw. wie heißt das Bordtool auf dem Mac OS X um Code-Dateien (.php, .htaccess) zu erstellen bzw. zu bearbeiten. Also das Gegenstück zu Notepad auf Windows.
Der Hintergrund ist folgender. Wir haben in unserem WordPress-Workshop zwei Teilnehmer die Mac haben und die üblichen [...] Read more...
Peruns Weblog, Mar 6, 7:58am
und jetzt alle: Neustart für die Netzpolitik
“Gefahr! Risiko! Oh Nein! So geht das nicht! Wir müssen regulieren!” – So oder anders hört man es gerade in vielen Gesprächen mit Politikern, sobald es um das Thema Netzpolitik geht. Sicherlich sind etliche Heilsversprechen der 90er Jahre in Bezug auf das Internet nicht eingetreten, dennoch kann man attestieren, daß das Internet eine gewaltige Kraft [...] Read more...
Lummaland, Mar 5, 5:24pm
15 YouTube Killer Features of 2025
In the year 2025, perhaps we'll be seeing:
1. YouTube Super Zoom
What it is: When watching a video, you can press the pause button and zoom in on smaller stuff you see in the background. For example, we see a mayor walking through a museum, and there's a painting by Vermeer in the background. Hit pause and the zoom icon, and click on the Vermeer painting, which is highlighted with a "zoomable" color (as are some other objects in the scene). It will be enlarged up to the point where you can see individual paint strokes.
How it works: Google's image comparison engine will run in the background as soon as you select the zoom tool. For instance, the comparison engine will notice that images of the region containing Ver ... Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 5, 9:35am
YouTube With Auto-Subtitles Option for All English Videos
TechCrunch reports that YouTube announced they will roll out auto-captions to all English videos now, for content creators who want this (before, only a portion of videos received this option). As a disclaimer, Google noted that (quote TechCrunch) ...
... Just like any speech recognition application, auto-captions require a clearly spoken audio track. Videos with background noise or a muffled voice can’t be auto-captioned. President Obama’s speech on the recent Chilean Earthquake is a good example of the kind of audio that works for auto-captions.
When video creators now choose a platform to upload their video, a feature like this -- well in sync ... Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 4, 1:48pm
10,000,000,000 Tweets heute Nacht erreicht
GigaTweet zählt die Tweets derzeit hoch und demnach soll heute Nacht die Zahl von 10,000,000,000 Tweets erreicht werden. Davon sind über 23.000 Tweets von mir, natürlich alles Qualitäts-Tweets. Read more...
Lummaland, Mar 4, 4:52am
Sorrell sieht düstere Zeiten für Media-Agenturen
Laut FT stellt Sir Martin Sorrell, Chef der weltgrößten Kommunikationsgruppe WPP, das Engagement von Werbetreibenden auf Social Media Plattformen in Frage:
But Sir Martin warned on Tuesday that social media sites are ”less commercial phenomena, they are more personal phenomena”, more similar to ”writing letters to our mothers” than watching television.
”Invading these [social] media with commercial [...] Read more...
Lummaland, Mar 4, 4:18am
Ads Can Provide The "Best Answer" For a Search Query, according to Google
SiteLinks are now appearing in Google's Sponsored Links. An AdWords SiteLinks unit consists of a regular text ad with four additional links. These ad units were sighted in August 2009, and trialled in November 2009 in conjunction with some of Google's Agency Partners, including Gillissa in the UK.
Each link can be up to 35 characters. Up to 10 links can be entered by the advertiser, although only 4 will show at a time. The links are not always displayed, and none will appear unless the ad is the only ad being shown for the search term. The ad ... Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 3, 6:17pm
Onion: "Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology"
Fake news site Onion has a piece titled Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology.
[Thanks Scjm] Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 3, 12:31pm
Topeka, Kansas Is Now Google, Kansas
Bill Bunten, the Mayor of Topeka (the capital city of Kansas, USA) has signed a proclamation declaring that during March the city will be known as Google, Kansas.
This is being spun by the press as a name change, but that's not the case. The city's official name remains Topeka, even though during March it will be (also) known as Google.
The wording of the proclamation is interesting. It starts by asserting that Google "is a corporation who maintains a small company feel", then lists ten core principles of Google's philosophy. (Somehow, the list still includes "It's best to do one thing really well".)
Then we get to the p ... Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 3, 12:03pm
Deutschland läuft digital hinterher
Der von mir sehr geschätzte Stefan Glänzer vertritt in der FAZ den Standpunkt Europa hat in der digitalen Medienwelt den Anschluss verpasst. Stefans Artikel kann ich vollumfänglich unterschreiben, dennoch will ich den Kern seiner Aussage hier noch einmal anführen, um dann noch einige ergänzende Punkte hinzuzfügen:
Um in der digitalen Welt Erfolg zu haben, sind [...] Read more...
Lummaland, Mar 3, 11:55am
Knol: The State of Play
Knol is a Google service that allows anyone to publish an article about almost anything.
When Google's VP of Engineering, Udi Manber, announced Knol in December 2007 it was widely regarded as a "Wikipedia killer". If Knol's users could replicate the success of Wikipedia, the pundits proclaimed, then Google would gain an enormous commercial benefit. No longer would users leave the Google's search results to find their answers at Wikipedia; they would go to Knol instead.
Google, meanwhile ... Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 3, 6:32am
Jetzt wird alles gut: GK Netzpolitik der SPD
Nach dem sagenumwobenen Online-Beirat der SPD hat gestern nun der ebenfalls mit mystischen Kräften ausgestattete Gesprächskreis Netzpolitik der SPD getagt, der laut Jörg-Olaf Schäfers allenfalls “Appeasement und Opium für’s Netz” darstelle. Ich hatte auch erwartet, daß sogleich mit der konstituierenden Sitzung ein Ruck durch das Internet und die Politik geht und spätestens ab 9 Uhr [...] Read more...
Lummaland, Mar 3, 6:05am
Weirdchina With Thousands of Followers on Buzz
At Gmail Buzz I've been subscribing to Robert "Weirdchina" Kong Hai and noticed that some of his buzz posts received tons of comments. I've asked Robert about this, and here's his reply:
Your right, my posts do get a lot of attention, I'm having a fun time on buzz! I think the social media community is very surprised that my 19 posts have received almost 3000 comments and 1500 likes. This might even be the most on Buzz. I also have more then 13,000 followers right behind Mashable, so I could be the 2nd most followed person on Buzz at the moment.
I'm in a unique situation, I have built up a world community based around the Chinese netizens. For a long time I have been sort of a bridge b ... Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 3, 4:03am
2 Google Wave Invites zu verschenken!
Drüben im Wavetank habe ich mich dazu hinreissen lassen für den Dienst an der Sache 2 Invites zu verschenken. Firster waved first. Read more...
Google's Special Oscars Result
Caleb writes, "There's a strange snippet for the query [2010 academy awards]. It's longer and more carefully constructed". TomHTML in the forum wonders "if there is any partnership between the Oscars and Google". (I asked Google for a comment and will post an update if there's more info.) [Thanks Caleb and Tom!] Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 2, 3:03pm
Interview With Google's Norvig
Google's director of research Peter Norvig has video-answered some questions from Reddit (Reddit has an overview of the questions that lets you jump straight to the specific bit). Read more...
Google Blogoscoped, Mar 2, 2:47pm
Nichtig
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat also die konkrete Ausgestaltung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung für „nichtig“ erklärt. Die gleichen Personen, die das zugehörige Gesetz, vorsichtig ausgedrückt, bewusst verfassungswidrig formulierten, dürfen es jetzt nochmal versuchen. Ansonsten passiert – nichts. Malte Welding: „Personelle Konsequenzen gibt es bei vagen Hitlervergleichen, fragwürdigem Dienstwagengebrauch und Flugzeugmissbrauch – die Verfassung zu schänden ist unproblematisch.“. Read more...
hebig.org/blog, Mar 2, 1:12pm
Metropole Ruhr
Das Ruhrgebiet, so hämmern es uns die 2010-Ideologen unentwegt ein, ist eine Metropole der neuen Art, deren Werden wir miterleben dürfen. Übersetzung: einen Telefonanschluss in einen Dortmunder Geschäftsraum legen zu lassen, dauert vier bis sechs Wochen. Und das erleben wir jetzt mit. Read more...
hebig.org/blog, Mar 2, 1:12pm
Links for 2010-03-01 [del.icio.us]
20 Must Know Recent CSS and CSS3 Resources and Tools Read more...
details of a global brain, Mar 2, 3:00am