I haven't had a chance to really dig deep on it yet. Honestly, I am as curious about the programming API as anything else!

And yes, I have some invites. Comment here if you are looking for one. Edit: Sorry!. That's all the invites I am giving out for now.

Note: Invites are not sent by Google immediately. You might have to wait a day or so.

In the spirit of my previous post, I thought I would point you to Google Moon; an interactive map of the lunar surface with markers for all of the Apollo missions. If you drill down on a mission you can see what points the astronauts actually visited and view pictures of those places ( Read more... )

A while back I wrote a short essay about Using your Google Brain where I described mainstream media scare stories about the Internet which reminded me of:. . . similar articles from the 1970's describing how kids were starting to use calculators in school, all of which invariably ended in dire predictions of impending innumeracy.
Now someone has ( Read more... )

The pseudoanonymous 'Robert Cringely' is going to the moon! OK, actually, he has announced his entry into the Google Lunar X Prize. Cringely plans to timebox it at 18 months, succeed or fail. It isn't clear if this is going to be a PBS special, but the smart money goes that way.

One hopes this effort will be more successful than his last foray ( Read more... )

According to the Mercury News, the Bush administration is asking for a court order to get Google open their database of search records to Federal inspection. The reason given? The government is trying to show a pattern of searches for pornography in an attempt to prove Child Online Protection Act is the only way to protect children from sexual ( Read more... )

Over the last year I've been using a new party discussion gambit which consists of positing that "Google makes me smarter." The resulting discussion quickly separates the digiterati from the illinternet sheep ( Read more... )

Google's ten rules for managing geeks.

Rinf.com has 9 disturbing facts about Google. My favorite part is the prominent Google AdSense ad on the page ( Read more... )

Scott Beale is using Google to find local meth labs.

Interesting presentation on what could happen if Google and Amazon merged:In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC?
Definitely thought-provoking! (Flash warning.)

(Hat-tip Stephen Fishburn.)