| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
New Apps Arrive on Google Glass
— Google Glass, the company's Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote.
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Meet the new Google Maps: A map for every person and place
— What if we told you that during your lifetime, Google could create millions of custom maps...each one just for you? — In the past, such a notion would have been unbelievable: a map was just a map, and you got the same one for New York City …
| Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: |
New Google Maps Interface
— Google is about to launch a new interface for Google Maps. The update will remove the sidebar and will display everything on top of the full-screen map. One of the new features lets you restrict local search results to places recommended by top reviews or your Google+ circles.
| Jeffrey Rosen / New Republic: |
Google, Twitter, Facebook and the new global battle over the future of free speech
— A year ago this month, Stanford Law School hosted a little-noticed meeting that may help decide the future of free speech online. It took place in the faculty lounge, where participants were sustained …
| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings
— Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business listing: a dedicated app that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. — There's no official announcement that I can find about the app …
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Who's Winning, iOS or Android? All the Numbers, All in One Place
— Who's winning the mobile platform wars, Apple's iOS or Google's Android? It's one of the blogosphere's favorite tech topics. Every new nugget of competitive information is fodder for an avalanche of coverage.
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Google sold Frommer's Travel — but kept all the social media data
— People wondered why Google sold Frommer's Travel barely nine months after acquiring it in the first place. The answer is that it's keeping a huge number social media followers from sites like Facebook. — Mystery solved.
| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Google Upgrades Its Google Places Dashboard With Google+ Local Integration
— Google has begun a staged upgrade of its Google Places Dashboard — the backend tool that allows local businesses to manage their business information that appears in Google's search results.
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps Beefs Up Its Live Transit Information With Updates For NYC, DC And Salt Lake City
— One of the things that's frustrating about Apple's Maps is that you don't get the integrated transit information that's the lifeblood of living in a place like New York City or San Francisco.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).