From Google Blog

Personalized Search Video

This video explains how Personalized Search works.  Are we getting closer to Web 3.0?

What do you think?

Thank you Wendy and Mike.

From The Today Show

Esquire Magazine Augmented Reality Video

What do you think?

Thanks Shawn.

From Wired

API explained with examples.

Geeks to Music Industry: APIs Can Set You Free

From the article ” Behind every mashup of two or more online services, there’s an API. That’s short for application programming interface, a set of commands that lets programmers write new code that controls an existing piece of software. Many APIs are proprietary, but the net is full of open APIs that let anyone, say, play a YouTube video on their own web page or overlay bike routes on a Google map”

When will you suggest that your company build an API?

Thanks Mick.

From MSNBC     Send in the drones

Robots Standing in for Docs

So, what do you think, would you be ok with being seen by a “robot” as described in this article?   Will this disrupt our healthcare system?

From the Harvard Business School Blog…..

How will Augmented Reality affect Your Business

Check out the five “things”.  Personally, of these, the “nature of location” will have the most profound impact.

What do you think?

Thanks Hugh

Here is another data visualization example.    Be sure to try out the controls.

Crime Spotting

Cool eh?    How could you use this for something other than crime spotting?

Here we go, the rumors are starting?  The New Your Times’ Bill Keller ranting about the end of newspaper publishing (the coming of Googlezon?) and the potential of an iTablet?  Is this good marketing — pre-announcement?  Market Research?  Apple iTablet

What do you think?  Marketing?  Rumors?  Advance, off the record, notice?

Thank you Wendy for your suggestion.

The article “Google’s ingenious plan to spruce up the browser” or Chrome for Clunkers is an interesting article and short video sabout browsers.  Personally, I like the CHROME browser from GOOGLE especially for accessing webmail (it seems to be faster), I also like the fact that it is a GOOGLE Search tool and browsers where I can be lazy and not even type a URL, I just type what  am looking for.

The article also promises that it will be a big part of GOOGLE Wave — which you have perhaps read about in this blog.

So what do you use and why?   If you have used Chrome, do you think it is faster, or just anti-Explorer?

A brief slideshow  on CIO Magazine’s website points out how many vendors and companies are flocking to VMWare and virtualization.

Virtualization From the site: “ Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources.”

Why do you think that “virtualization” is getting so BIG?  Are you hearing more about it lately, or is this a totally new term to you?

Marissa Mayer, VP of Search and User Experience at GOOGLE talks about how and why they work with Open Apps and the development of iGOOGLE. 

YOU TUBE Video    This video is nearly an hour, however, even a short watch/listen yields some lessons learned.

I like the story about why the home page is designed as it is and why simple design is often the best.

What did you take away from it?