Is GMail Snooze basically building Mind Traffic Control into your email client? Well, it’s about time Google did something radical to improve GMail. There’s still so much untapped potential in the mail-box. And at least email is an open protocol that we should defend against moving to walled rivers like Facebook and Slack etc.
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Is Google breaking the Android file-system?
Over at the comments on Use Dropbox in place of iTunes I pointed out that, far from Android working straightforwardly, the problems I posted about here suggest that Google is actually breaking the “just working” file-system model that Android used to have. Maybe this is in the name of security. Or efficiency. Or following Apple …
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Fargo and Google
Couple of quick notes : 1) I’m too dependent on Google. Unlike the case of Facebook, I can’t just cancel my account. Google is too deeply entwined with my life. But I am taking steps to disengage if not 100% at least a significant chunk. 2) I’m playing around a bit more with Dave Winer’s …
Google's Dart
So Google’s Javascript replacement language, Dart goes public. Looks awfully like Java with a smattering of CoffeeScript. I like the empty compact constructor and the one-liner functions. But I’m not sure what those colon ones are doing. Presumably some jQuery-like action with the document.query(). Looks a little bit messy, but then Javascript has got kind …
Nice Quora question about code at early Google. What I take away from these stories is that pushing out ugly prototypes of your products will not prevent you from building a world-class engineering organization in the future.
The end of Google Wave?
Interesting testament to Google Wave
Jocelyn Paine is one of the more interesting thinkers about evolving spreadsheets. Here’s some recent stuff about components in Google Sheet.
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Wow! Manuel Simoni is on fire! with BuckyBase development : – Import into Google Spreadsheet – Google Gadgets Visualization – RDF triples (ah well … if it makes him happy) – and is this a TreeGrid??? This is seriously exciting.