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fonting the web

vevmesteren — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:34:37 +0000

Google just announced a very functional font resource with an API which will help using custom fonts within web pages. The days of when you receive an art directors mock-up and you have to ask them whether you can’t use standard web font seem to be over.

Yet another excellent Google initative. And while I am at a Google post, make sure you take another look at Wave, as they updated their UI, and seems much less buggy now, then when launched.

the 6$ job interview

vevmesteren — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:36:51 +0000

Interesting alternative to the tedious process of updating your CV. Buy some words on google, create a simple site, and land the interview. And if all goes well the subsequent job…

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Chrome vs. Potato

vevmesteren — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:26:26 +0000

From part II I thought a new title fitting, as this series just seems to be going and going and going…

Now for the Google Chrome Speed Tests:

Google Maps with Google Earth

vevmesteren — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:33:59 +0000

Earth Day may have just passed, but the Google Earth team loves it too much to let it go. So we’ve found our own special way to celebrate Earth Day (a little late) by making an announcement that we’ve been working toward for a long time: Earth view in Google Maps.

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Google Chrome Ads – part 2

vevmesteren — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:19:23 +0000

Back in December I posted these ads. Now, as Google engineers are leaving Facebook in droves, they are publishing a new ad.

Facebook having announced their own push into the search market, as well as wanting to push their own new standards (even rumors about a Facebook tablet) and their union with Microsoft (via docs.com), there is yet another front opening up. Watch this space. Adobe screaming murder in apple’s direction. Bing and Yahoo’s failed union vs Google. Now Microsoft’s trying it again with Facebook. Interesting indeed.

100$ TV campaign

vevmesteren — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:45:41 +0000

Interesting experiment with Adsense for TV.

Google present the Nexus 1

vevmesteren — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:07:31 +0000

It has been in the making for quite some time now. And today (or right now actually) Google are presenting their Nexus 1. What Google’s message though seems to be though, is we are not launching their phone here. They are launching themselves as a retailer, rather then launching ‘their’ phone…

Disappointingly though, this store is shipping to the US, Singapore and Hong Kong though…

13 ways the Nexus One is better than the iPhone
5 ways the iPhone is better than the Nexus One
5 ways the iPhone and Nexus One equally suck

google.com/phone

87 cool things

vevmesteren — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:51:52 +0000

http://sites.google.com/site/experimentsindigitalcreativity/

Google’s feeling lucky

vevmesteren — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:25:02 +0000

It seems that Google is Feeling Lucky about something. Feeling good about the new year. If you go to Google and just press “I’m feeling Lucky” without typing anything in the Search Field, you will see a countdown. Seconds counting down. So the question is, are they only looking forward to 2010 or will there be yet another announcement made on January 1st. The countdown is linked to your system time, so if you update your own system clock, the timer will listen, jumping ahead in time (pas new years eve) just makes the counter disappear. So only time will show, I guess…
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Can you see the button

vevmesteren — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:17:41 +0000

A new tool by Google tries to help you to optimize your design.

How many times have you come to a website, where you want to buy, order, download or just find something, but you don’t see it right away. A sign of designers using their wonderful large (read humungous) screens, not thinking of netbook users, or just regular 15″ screen users. Simple, yet terribly useful tool to check out how your design will work in the real world.

Google Chrome – Ads

vevmesteren — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:30:42 +0000

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Autocompletion weirdness

vevmesteren — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:31:40 +0000

I couple of weeks ago we stumbled across this weirdness in the new and improved google.com.

And it turns out there is a whole blog for that…

autocompleteme.com

Google Goggles

vevmesteren — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:16:52 +0000

Search Stories

vevmesteren — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:10:57 +0000

What makes google click

vevmesteren — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:23:51 +0000

Inside your Search dot com

World’s most popular search engine finally reveals the secret to its success.Weetabix is taking us behind the scenes…

What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years

vevmesteren — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:54:52 +0000

According to Google

Only 11 years

vevmesteren — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:45:05 +0000

I remember the day I dropped altavista for google…
When I created my gmail account, of an invite that I got…

got any memories you want to share…?

Google Wave Developer Preview

vevmesteren — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:51:19 +0000

Very interesting new platform that was announced earlier this year. Very geeky but very intriguing indeed.

meet wolfram

vevmesteren — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:18:44 +0000

Finally, it seems, there is a new kid on the block.

” Web tool ‘as important as Google’
Stephen Wolfram says his new search engine will be ‘a paradigm for the web’

A web tool that “could be as important as Google”, according to some experts, has been shown off to the public.

Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram.

The free program aims to answer questions directly, rather than display web pages in response to a query like a search engine.”

From the BBC

How hot…

vevmesteren — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:55:52 +0000

…is any product, brand or thought (for that matter) that you can come up with…

GoogleTrends knows…