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LUCIAN PARFENI
The web's been changing our lives for almost two decades now, and it still seems like things are only getting started. With the latest wave of web technologies, HTML5 and friends coming into their own, things will only get more interesting.
I've been interested in computers and anything related to them as far as I can remember, when the web was just getting started.
Watching it grow from a few pages of text, links and images - that you had to wait tens of seconds to load, to something that is close to replacing traditional operating systems and to something where you can find all of man's knowledge, any movie or song you'd ever want to watch, or friends you haven't seen in years, has been fascinating. Getting to write about it is even better.
Still, there comes a time when you need to 'log off', which for me means either trying to create something resembling music with only the help of '0s' and '1s', or getting out and snapping photos of anything I find interesting, which, for me, means a surprising amount of things.
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One of the great things about Google I/O is the swag. It may not be the thing most people talk about, but for the developers and geeks out there, getting access to the latest and greatest gadgets and devices is a real treat.
This year, Google isn't skimping, as everyone there will be getting a Chromebook Pixel,... |
16 May 2013
10:31 UTC |
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Google may be introducing plenty of new products and features at I/O, but it's also removing a few, though with much less fanfare. Google has announced that it is retiring Google+ Games as of June 30.
There's no word on why Google is doing this, but it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. No one i... |
16 May 2013
08:43 UTC |
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There are now more details on the US investigation into Mt. Gox which resulted in the government freezing accounts associated with the BitCoin exchange and its owner, Mark Karpeles. Dwolla, a payments company, revealed that the government ordered a freeze on any account associated with Mt. Gox, but could not provid... |
16 May 2013
08:29 UTC |
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As expected, Google unveiled Hangouts, codenamed Babel, at its I/O developer conference, a new messaging service that is supposed to replace Google's existing options.
It does just that – on Android it replaces Talk, and in Google+ and Gmail it replaces the built-in messenger. Updates are rolling out, so you ma... |
16 May 2013
07:59 UTC |
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It hasn't been that long since Google+ Sign-in was introduced, complementing Google’s existing login system for third parties with social features.
But it was just the start; at Google I/O, the company introduced cross-platform single sign-on (SSO), a new service with a rather descriptive name.
"Cross-platfor... |
16 May 2013
07:03 UTC |
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We knew that Google Maps is getting a huge revamp at I/O, and Google isn't disappointing. A brand new Google Maps for the web is being unveiled and it's essentially a complete rewrite. One of the big focuses of the new maps is personalization. Now, Google Maps won't be the same for any two users. The ... |
15 May 2013
19:16 UTC |
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Google is stretching far and wide these days, but at the core, it's still about search. So there's no surprise search is getting some attention at Google I/O. It's also no surprise that the Knowledge Graph is the star of search at Google.
The Knowledge Graph is now available in more languages, not an ... |
15 May 2013
18:16 UTC |
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After plenty of rumors, Google's next-generation messaging system, codenamed "Babel," is here. It's called Hangouts, and it makes sense perhaps, even though it's actually a separate product from Google+ Hangouts. The new messaging service is cross-platform, like Facebook, as Google thinks communicatio... |
15 May 2013
17:57 UTC |
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Google+ is Google, that's what Larry Page has been always saying, so there couldn't be a Google I/O without any mention of Google+. After all, the social network was launched here a couple of years ago.
In fact, Google+ has already been part of the keynote, with Google+ Sign-In, for example, or with the Go... |
15 May 2013
17:43 UTC |
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Chrome has been billed as the most popular browser in the world for a while now, and Google seems to be confirming this. There are now 750 million monthly active users of Chrome, up from 450 million last year. That's a huge number and, at this point, Chrome is by far the biggest browser in the world. And there... |
15 May 2013
17:10 UTC |
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Google's second big announcement, perhaps the biggest, is the music streaming service. We've been hearing about this for a while, so there's no big surprise.
But it's still a major upgrade of Google's existing music service which, so far, offered a cloud music storage and a music store.
No... |
15 May 2013
17:00 UTC |
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Google started its I/O conference with a focus on APIs for Android, a way to underscore that this is a developer conference after all. But the first real announcement is the Google Play game services.
This new service makes it possible to save game status in the cloud not only across devices, i.e. a phone and table... |
15 May 2013
16:33 UTC |
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The 2013 edition of Google I/O is off to a running start. With only one keynote and plenty of announcements to make, Google can't afford to lose too much time, even if it's got three hours.
Yet the company spent quite a lot of time detailing just how great its products are doing.
Normally, if you see Sund... |
15 May 2013
16:21 UTC |
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Internet access has again been cut off in Syria, barely a week after the last country-wide outrage. While the government blamed cut internet cables for the problems the last time around, the ongoing and increasingly bloody civil conflict in the country is to blame. The government doesn't want rebels using the i... |
15 May 2013
15:49 UTC |
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Google I/O may be serious business, but it's a great place for developers to get to meet each other and the Google team.
A little bit of alcohol will come in handy and Google has just the bartender to serve it, a robot bartender that knows every drink out there and will make it perfect every time.
The robot, ... |
15 May 2013
15:35 UTC |
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It's not just Twitter that gets a Comedy Week, YouTube is on it as well. The site is clearly in a better position than Twitter to run something like this, if only because it can host actual videos.
Starting next week, 150 of the "biggest names in comedy" will take part in the first ever YouTube Comedy Week. Ex... |
16 May 2013
00:11 UTC |
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Chris Hadfield has certainly kept busy while in space, and we're not talking about science experiments or keeping one of the largest and most expensive international projects ever running smoothly.
We're talking about the dozens of videos, thousands of photos, the Reddit sessions, the Twitter, and everyth... |
15 May 2013
21:51 UTC |
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This year's Google I/O will sprawl over three days and will feature more of the same, more sessions, more attendees, and so on. But there are a few things that are different, even if they are subtle.
The biggest change perhaps is that there will only be one keynote, to open the conference, after that it's ... |
15 May 2013
14:40 UTC |
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Google keeps on expanding the search experiment in Chrome. The company has been working on building the search engine, complete with Google Now, into the browser, albeit via an API rather than actually making it an integral part of Chrome.
The built-in Google homepage and search box is only available in the dev chan... |
15 May 2013
14:22 UTC |
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Spurred by the great success of blocking The Pirate Bay and recently several other large BitTorrent sites, it seems that the music industry is now pushing to have several more file sharing and streaming sites blocked in the UK.
More than several, in fact, as this is going to be the biggest move of its kind in the c... |
15 May 2013
14:01 UTC |
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Humans have been gazing at Orion for millennia, but they've never seen it as beautiful as this. Granted, we can't actually see it like the photo above would suggest, as the fiery glow is only visible to telescopes tuned to submillimeter radio frequencies. Luckily, the European Southern Observatory has jus... |
15 May 2013
13:10 UTC |
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Online mapping is difficult, this is why there aren't that many companies doing it. Generally, Google dominates, and for good reason, as it has the most accurate and the best looking maps. It's also got hundreds of people working on them, from the infrastructure powering the service all the way up to peop... |
15 May 2013
12:23 UTC |
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Google hasn't quite decided what to do with the black navbar found on most Google sites. It's been experimenting with a menu-based system lately, but there doesn't seem to be a consensus on what to do next.
But you don't have to wait for Google to make up its mind. The Black Menu Chrome extension... |
15 May 2013
09:39 UTC |
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If you needed any more proof that Google is about to unveil a revamped Maps website, there's now actual evidence that the new Maps is being unveiled at Google I/O.
Someone at Google jumped the gun and revealed the signup page for the new Google Maps. It seems that the changes are great that Google will be rolli... |
15 May 2013
08:50 UTC |
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While Peter Sunde still has to deal with the prison term he has to serve for his involvement with The Pirate Bay, he's looking forward to the future as well. In fact, seeing as he's been the site's spokesperson, a political career may suit him.
He now plans to run for the Finnish branch of the Pirate ... |
15 May 2013
07:33 UTC |
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The US Department of Homeland Security has ordered Dwolla, a mobile payments company, to stop making payments to Mt. Gox, the largest and best known Bitcoin exchange.
The reason for the order is unknown, and Mt. Gox itself says it has not seen any documents and has not been served with anything. All it knows is fro... |
15 May 2013
07:18 UTC |
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Google is said to be launching a streaming music service at Google I/O, associated with the Play Store and Android. The company is also launching a separate service associated with YouTube.
Google has been working on this for years and it's already got a basic service, but on-demand streaming has been out of t... |
15 May 2013
06:34 UTC |
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For several months last year, Google CEO Larry Page was unable to attend events or even investor meetings explaining that he had lost his voice. He recovered sometime after Google I/O last year, enough that he can speak, though it's not a full recovery.
However, there never was an explanation for the cause of t... |
14 May 2013
23:41 UTC |
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Facebook's Timeline had plenty of critics when it was first introduced, but that's true for all new Facebook features. But one criticism stood out, namely the annoying two-column layout.
Thankfully, that look has been completely eradicated, as Facebook has finished rolling out the improved single-column Ti... |
14 May 2013
22:51 UTC |
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Firefox 21 is here, bringing with it a new experimental feature which has the potential of making life a lot easier for Firefox users.
The Firefox Health Report, as the name suggests, keeps track of the browser's status and will eventually provide means to improve performance or fix issues.
For now, all it do... |
14 May 2013
22:00 UTC |
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