Happy 130th Birthday, Franz Kafka
Why is Google dropping Google Reader & RSS? The answer is obvious.
This “killing off” of Google Reader and Chrome RSS AddOn is pretty blatantly an attempt to drive people to use Google+ for everything.
It makes sense. Honestly I haven’t used RSS for years, and was surprised so many people still do. I suspect most people get their news and information “feeds” through Twitter and/or Facebook at this point anyway. And unless G+ can compete with those services, it is not likely to survive.
The Google Doodle today is cute. #BrothersGrimm
Cell phones : before the #Apple #iPhone & after. #JustSayin
Jury Awards $1 Billion to Apple in Samsung Patent Case
A Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone, left, and an Apple iPhone 4.
Design decisions at Apple vs Google – The Auteur vs. the Committee
One person is the Decider for final design choices. Not focus groups. Not data crunchers. Not committee consensus-builders. The decisions reflect the sensibility of just one person: Steven P. Jobs, the C.E.O.
By contrast, Google has followed the conventional approach, with lots of people playing a role. That group prefers to rely on experimental data, not designers, to guide its decisions.
The contest is not even close. The company that has a single arbiter of taste has been producing superior products, showing that you don’t need multiple teams and dozens or hundreds or thousands of voices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/technology/what-apple-has-that-google-doesnt-an-auteur.html
Archive of all the old Google logo “doodles.” #quaint
It’s kind of amusing to look back at all the old Google logo doodles and how they’ve progressed over the years — you can view them all here.
In the meantime, the amazing Les Paul guitar player/recorded logo is still up today — go check it out if you haven’t yet.
