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Marissa Mayer flexes Google’s imagination muscle

May 29, 2008 – 9:06 am

When you focus on the things people use every day, you solve big problems.

iGoogle gadgets are a new form of advertising.
The orginary and the every day.
Occam’s razor for logic: the simplest answer is probably right.
The Google homepage. Sergey created the original homepage. What inspired him to make it plain?
“We didn’t have a webmaster. And [...]

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Social data at its finest

April 15, 2008 – 5:20 pm

Today, Facebook launched a few new features including chat and something called Feedcrawler. But the most interesting release today is called Lexicon. Think of it as Google Trends but for social data.

One of the Facebook engineers working on the projects sent me the above query, but the possibilities are endless. This tool will be [...]

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