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“Wesley Chan, a top production designer, fundamentally disagrees with Page’s ideas on product design. But he has learned that instead of arguing his case with Page, a better strategy is “giving him shiny objects to play with.” At the beginning of one Google Voice product review, for instance, he offered Page and Brin the opportunity to pick their own phone numbers for the new service. For the next hour, the two brainstormed sequences that embodied mathematical puns while the product sailed through the review.”
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Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language. It bundles tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider, HTML DOM parser), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface, syntactical + semantical n-gram search algorithm, tf-idf + cosine similarity + LSA metrics) and data visualization (graph networks). (via Pattern | CLiPS)
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How Do You Count Visitors? or The Scary Truth About Counting with Google Analytics
(Thanks to Jer for another enlightening/frightening link.)
And I also get why the deal wouldn’t get done. Valve and their gaming platform—used by a whopping 70% of the PC gaming industry—is doing pretty well on their own, thank you very much.
Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet With President Obama Thursday in San Francisco
I’d love to hear anything Steve Jobs has to say in a conversation about fixing things in this country. And while I’m sure Schmidt’s presence will only fan the flames of Glenn Beck’s towering inferno of crazy (see below), the former Google CEO has got some time on his hands and could make a great political advisor. As for Zuckerberg: if he couldn’t stop sweating on stage with Swisher and Mossberg, I hope he brings the prescription-strength anti-perspirant tonight.
Google unveils brilliant strategy to remove trolling, quasi-literate Glenn Beck devotees from its online communities.
The folks at Red Bull (and whoever was their digital agency on this) did a great job with this street art chronicle built using Google Maps’ StreetView.
As the article notes: that makes Apple worth roughly an HP (market cap: $105bn) more than any other tech company.
Meanwhile Google is catching on Microsoft fast (Up over $100/share in the past year, GOOG’s market cap is now only $28bn behind MSFT). And coming up in the rear, there’s Facebook, who’s on pace for a $10 trillion IPO in 2012 last I checked.
