13 Things Companies Now Know About You
The corporate world is mining your life for juicy, personal details. Should you be paranoid? Read and decide.
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The Glamorous Gals Of "Game Of Thrones" Lead The Evening Links
Plus professionally-animated Calvin and Hobbes, bizarre commercials starring musicians, and stunning photos of molten lava.
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Google 1999: An 11-Year-Old’s Documentary
This is what Google was like in 1999 as seen through a 5th-grader’s eyes. Basically, FREE SNAPPLE.
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Google’s Creepy FBI Chart
Just how often does the FBI demand information from Google?
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How Google And Bing Maps Control What You Can See
Behind the scenes of the most powerful maps in the history of the Earth. And how Google, Microsoft, DigitalGlobe, and the world’s governments decide what does — and doesn’t — belong on its surface.
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A Whopper With A Side Of Eternal Rest Leads The Midnight Links
This guy really, really, really liked Burger King.
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Why Does Google Still Reward Content Scraping?
How a copied-and-pasted excerpt of a story can still outrank an 8,000-word original. And why publishers aren’t the ones to blame.
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Police Data Requests On The Rise, Google Says
Google’s new transparency report is out, this time with information about subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders.
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We’re Entering The Worst Period In Modern Search History
Google is becoming less useful, and Facebook search isn’t ready yet. Welcome to the search desert.
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Google Chairman Visits North Korea
Google’s Eric Schmidt took a peek at North Korea’s extremely limited and sanctioned Internet access. An unofficial U.S. delegation that included Schmidt and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson toured Kim II Sung University in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday.
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Google Search Is Only Going To Get Googlier
Hope you like some Google in your Google in your Google. Because you have only yourself to blame.
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Instagram Could Speak To Us In English, If It Wanted To
So could Facebook, Twitter, Google, and every other website we use on a daily basis.
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Why Instagram Hopes You Won’t Mind The Ads
They’ll be so good, you won’t even know they’re ads.
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The Design Rebellion We’ve All Been Waiting For
And it’s right under our fingertips. Against the tyranny of the feed.
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Google Accidentally Savages Itself In Strange Ad
More than a little awkward.
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The Year In You
The real year-end review for 2012 is a review of ourselves. And auto-nostalgia has its limits.
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Why The New YouTube Design Will Drive You Insane
It makes it extremely hard to see into the past. And isn’t that a big part of what YouTube is for?
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There Is No Product That Google+ Will Not Eat
With Communities, Google’s rebuilding the whole experience of forums, right on top of Google+. Which it now says “is the fastest-growing network thingy ever. “
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Why Mobile Maps Are Actually Getting Worse
It’s the one part of your phone that might not be getting better. Why every major mobile company is re-creating reality from scratch.
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Someone Invented A $400 Million Google Deal — And May Have Made Money From It
For a couple hours, Google’s ICOA purchase seemed real. Now the “acquired” company is saying it was a hoax that “originated from Aruba” — but stock charts suggest someone made a killing.
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Google Hangs A Tiny Little Sign In New York City
Just in case people didn’t already know that Google owns the historic Port Authority building. You know, and your soul.
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Google’s Reality-Warping New Game
A new game from Google takes place in the real world. And there’s something weird about that. (via)
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Why Google, Not Facebook, Knows Your Darkest Secrets
The quiet terror of Dark Search.
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Time For The Republican Party To Discover The Internet
Google is not a social network, and other elementary errors.
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What Apple’s Spending Says About The Rest Of The Tech Industry
It’s perhaps a look at the shape of things to come.
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Yep, Google Looks Different Now
The search results page just got a little cleaner.
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Exclusive: Lady Gaga Cuts Video For Marriage Equality Vote
The video from The Four 2012 backs marriage initiatives on the ballot in four states this year. “No one speaks more to young people than Lady Gaga,” says Ellner.
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Inside Tech Companies’ Private Bus System
Tech shuttle buses have taken over San Francisco’s streets, creating a transportation caste system. I wanted to know what it was like inside. So I got on.
