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zridling:
[via Jean-Louis Gassée]


http://code.google.com/more/table/

Would love to see DC do something like this! I like the table more than the article, and while Jean-Louis Gassée makes some valid points based on the history of big, fat software megaliths, Gassée's premise is based on "could" and the fact that he thinks 13 tabs in Gmail settings are overwhelming (really?). He does strike at the heart of Google's weaknesses -- underestimating Facebook, missing Twitter altogether, and the bigger Google gets, the bigger target (as in threat) they are of governments around the globe.

fenixproductions:
Is elements half-life taken into consideration here?

zridling:
@fenix:
Ha! Google just dumped their Health Records and PowerMeter Services.

zridling:
Speaking of Google, here's a good NYTimes piece on combating adsense spam from content farms, the very trash that is hitting Kindles via Amazon:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/googles-war-on-nonsense/

cyberdiva:
I came to this thread hoping to find some new information about Google's deprecated Translate API.  Didn't find it, but I loved the extremely interesting article about content farmers and Google's efforts to combat them with Panda.  Thanks very much, Zaine, for calling attention to it.

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