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In the Google documentary on ARTE somebody told a story about how his grandmother discovered Google: she typed ingredients she would like to eat in the search bar and Google returned recipes for dishes with exactly those food combinations. Today, thinking about lunch, I tried the same and it worked very well.
Wouldn’t that be a nice fridge feature?
Based on the food what’s left, the fridge looks up and suggests recipes. Nowadays one could extend it even with some community features. Like last.fm tracks the music users play on iTunes, the fridge robot scans the food in the fridge and recommends recipes, based on profiles of other users with similar fridge content and taste.
Since a few days I don’t see any AdSense ads anymore. I guess now I have it confirmed, while being logged in somewhere else than at my FON access point, that’s a FON problem, again.
No big deal, I don’t need to see AdSense ads. Well, I mean, sometimes I would like to check which ads appear on my sites, but it’s not that important.
Unlike for Google as I suppose: I doubt the FON sponsor is very happy about the fact that Google AdSense won’t be displayed in parts of the FON network.
Can’t be, no AdSense ad is showing up. Nowhere. Even on a high traffic sites like Digg the ad banner remains empty. Or maybe it’s just a local problem within my network.
However, I guess now I understand what does it mean to depend on a single revenue stream: no AdSense server, no income.
Livin’ la Vida Google: A Month-Long Dive Into Web-Based Apps
Full ACK. Especially Gmail’s web interface – had to switch to it a few weeks ago because FON is experiencing some troubles with Gmail’s pop servers and therefore I couldn’t download emails using my local email client any longer – is one of the most convenient ways to handle and manage emails I’ve seen so far.
Google Reader too, it helps you to easily oversee a large amount of feeds and posts (even if it’s the only Google application that still lacks of a search function).
My main concerns are of course about privacy. I really don’t care if Googlebot parses “buy tomatoes” in my Google Notebook and shows me a tomato ad at the next available AdSense spot, but I never ever would put confident or sensitive data on Google’s servers.
Ed Parsons, former Ordnance Survey CTO, joined Google as Geospatial Technologist for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). A brilliant move and Ed is surely a tremendous asset to Google.
It’s important for Google to have someone with his visions on board and bring traditional geospatial industry and neogeography closer together.
Congratulations!
I’m wondering how Google Desktop will handle indexing on the Mac?
On Windows Google Desktop index files grow up to multiple GB file sizes. So the question that came to my mind is: does Google Desktop make use of the Spotlight index or will Google create it’s own local index from scratch?
Spotlight obviously stores its index somewhere on the hard drive and I think it must be already quite large, supposedly more than a GB on my MacBook. I don’t want another local search application to create a second index, parallel to Spotlight’s, containing more or less the same information – there is only one local drive to index – and clutter up my hard drive with a few GB of index files.
Besides, Spotlight does a fairly well job. Extended by some plugins it searches within my del.icio.us bookmarks, Open Office documents or online on Google.
This is great news for simple location encoding formats: Google announced today native support for GeoRSS in the Google Maps API.
So to view a GeoRSS flavored feed in Google maps just type the URL into the Google Maps search field or add it as query parameter like this.
What’s next? Maybe GeoRSS feeds getting indexed for searches within Google Earth? Just imagine for a moment the amount of content you could access out of Google Earth…
As response to the conspiring thoughts brought up yesterday, an employee of Spot Image assured today that the Google deal won’t affect any other clients so far. Such deals are a matter of heavy economic pressure and Spot Image currently faces strong US competition.
However, concerns about possible input data shortage in European research programs as a result of “American commercial interests” were expressed during the discussion too. It was not the intention to blame anyone, just to stress a new situation Europe has to deal with.
So please US enterprises, play nice with European R&D initiatives…
Don’t know how many PowerPoint presentations I’ve seen today, definitely too many, I hope after that PowerPoint overdose I can keep it out of my dreams tonight.
Anyways, one talk ended with some interesting conspiring thoughts about the recent Google – Spot Image deal (without knowing any details of course): What if Google bought multi-annual exclusive rights on Spot’s high resolution imagery?
Not only they would have excluded their direct competitors like Microsoft or Yahoo! from using the same imagery, no, such a deal would have impacts on the work of some European agencies (e.g. EEA) too. High resolution imagery data is also used as basis in research projects on environmental security (e.g. GMES). So, on the one hand Google would deliver the data to any Google Earth user for free, but at the same time such a deal would possibly constrain development of EO based products, often used as basis for decision-making in spatial and environmental policies for instance.
That was indeed a very interesting point brought up today. If I had to choose either view exciting backround layers and bird views in Google Earth or enable scientific projects in order to improve environmental security, I would vote for the latter…
Another interesting news today was the freely (open source principle) available and revised SRTM data at the JRC Soil Portal.