If you’d like to add a couple of extra smileys and images to your emails, you can now opt in to the Labs feature called Extra Emoji. Read more
Save the setting; now when in rich text editing, you can click the smiley, and then tab through several image sets, partly with animation. [Thanks Mbegin!]
The Google Mobile App for iPhone just got an update. This new version includes:
Joe Clark published a rant over what he considers Google’s “antidesign” stance, in relation to the quitting of designer Doug Bowman. Joe argues, “Google was founded by extreme-male-brain nerds and, by all outward appearances, seems to hire only that type of person, not all of them male.” [Thanks Manoj!] Read more
A map showing markers for swine flu suspects and confirmations is available on Google Maps. [Thanks Juha-Matti!]
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Above map of the US was built using information like the latitude/ information of geotagged Flickr photos. It’s from a research paper [PDF] by David Crandall, Lars Backstrom, Daniel Huttenlocher and Jon Kleinberg from Cornell University. From the abstract: Read more
This quote is via Elzr.com (I believe I first read the anecdote in a book by Dale Carnegie):
While he was prime minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill once hosted a posh state dinner, attended by dignitaries from around the world. At one point, he was taken aside by the head butler, who quietly informed him that Lady So-and-so had been observed stealing a silver salt-shaker and placing it in her purse. “How do you suggest this matter be handled?” asked the butler.
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The Google Toolbar got its own Labs, at least for Internet Explorer. The special toolbars currently available for download are “My Location” which finds “locally-relevant search results on Google when local information is available” (among other things, as Google suggests)... as well as a differently layouted Chinese toolbar (connected to partly self-censored web search, news, and more). The Google Blog has more. Read more
Philipp Lenssen from Germany, author of Google Apps Hacks, shares his views and news on the search industry in the daily Google Blogoscoped. Items here are reprinted with his permission.
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