Category Archives: Google

Where are the filters for Google Reader?

Posted on October 29, 2009 by jay

If I can create filters for GMail, to push notes to certain folders or automatically star things, then why can’t I create similar rules for my RSS feeds? RSS has quickly become at least as important to me as email, … Continue reading →

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Who’s Really Testing Chrome?

Posted on July 6, 2009 by jay

Just a quick gripe to share with anyone using Chrome. For all of Chrome’s new high performance design, there’s a very simple way to bring your tabbed experience to it’s knees, Print something… In my case it was a 100+ page … Continue reading →

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Mashing up the Dashboard

Posted on July 1, 2009 by jay

This post is for anyone interested in any of the Government Transparency inituatives. If you’ve been following this topic then you’re probably aware that Vivek Kundra sees a dashboard as a way of accelerating the transparency and transformation of the … Continue reading →

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Google’s Unspoken Security Vulnerability

Posted on January 29, 2009 by jay

Your personal life, which was once kept secure through email, is now open to the network via RSS. Continue reading →

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Taking (and keeping) your temperature!

Posted on January 2, 2009 by jay

I swear I don’t have a penchant for medical terminology but this ioBridge stuff is making me feel like that time I stayed at a Holiday Inn… so refreshing, I think I could perform surgery! After my heart hacks (see … Continue reading →

Posted in code, Google, hardware, iobridge, python, visualization | 10 Comments

Suggestions for Google Friend Connect

Posted on December 15, 2008 by jay

I’ve been building my personal site and one of the things I’m excited about is the chance to interconnect my work with the larger social networks out there. I believe every site should do what it’s best at and my … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome fails the Google incognito test

Posted on September 9, 2008 by jay

There’s been a lot of talk about Google’s new Chrome browser. If you haven’t checked it out I’d recommend it from a “neat” factor but it’s less practical then upgrading to Firefox 3. Chrome is fast and has some great … Continue reading →

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Can your datacenter handle this?

Posted on June 25, 2008 by jay

Google recently hosted their I/O conference and, during that, a Google Fellow named Jeff Dean illuminated some of their operational measurements; A single search query touches 700 to 1,000 machines in less then 0.25 seconds. They currently have 36 data … Continue reading →

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