[GAME-INSPIRED] GeoGuessr transforms Google Street View in a game! Lost somewhere in some random area captured by Google's camera, you have to guess your location
[WTF] A lifetime summed up through Google's autocomplete. The suggestions of a simple search for "I'm [age] and" give us a glimpse of the most common concerns affecting the millions of people using Google everyday.
[CONCEPT] Teehan+Lax were looking for a way to make the process simpler using Google Street View but they actually ended up with a tool capable of creating hyperlapse videos with the data from Google's mapping service.
[MUST-HAVE] Details about the highly-anticipated Google Glass were just released today. A new video gives us a better look at the functionalities and design of the device and will make you totally desperate for one.
[WEIRD APP] This Chrome extension can remove all the text from the pages you browse. Just click on the smiley face and any kind of word will disappear.
[WEIRD APP] You are finally going to be able to find out what is behind each Instagram picture. A search on "The Beat" shows you images with the same tag as well as the Google Street View of the location the photograph was posted from.
[GAME-INSPIRED] After last week's Alt-Minds, the alternate reality game produced by Orange, here is another foray into the genre, this time by Google.
[WEIRD APP] You can finally get a baby-free Facebook Newsfeed. The Chrome extension "Unbaby Me" will replace any pictures of babies with stuff you like.
[CONCEPT] A photography of the Internet at the end of 2011. More than 350 thousands websites from 196 countries are represented on the map. You'll never get lost again.
[WATCH&LISTEN] "The Bravest Man In The Universe" is an interactive journey through space only for Android and iOS users.
[CONCEPT] This project "aims to bring to live the wonders of the Modern and Ancient world" thanks to Google Street View.
Securing the top spot in a Google search is a huge traffic boost. A whole industry, called Search Engine Optimization or SEO, has sprouted to help website owners reach this goal. Every kind of SEO is about getting more links to your content, and making your code and content more palatable to search engines. But some SEO guys are willing to infringe Google’s terms of service to buy or build their own network of “backlinks”, artificially propelling websites up the search results. These people have been labelled the “black-hat” SEOs. I had a drink with one of them, and, with a certain amount of bluster, he gave me a crash course on his art.
[PICTURES] The evolution and especially the future of Apple's, Microsoft's, IBM's, Google's and Nokia's logos ... But what happened to Nokia??
German artist Sebastian Schmieg did an intriguing experience with Google Image search engine : he simply asked for similar looking images of… a transparent PNG file! Intrigued by the result (a picture of outer space), he launched another search with this new image, and so on… Finally, his video ”Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1” compiling…
On today's menu (much like every other meal) : web browsers, search engines, social networks. Yummy !
