I don’t remember when I stopped making my searches at Google and began doing them at Youtube; but the fact is that I use Google just for looking into blogs, or specific things like a piece of javascript code I want to work with; and that’s it. If I want to see an upcoming movie release, I just Youtube-it and find the trailer/teaser or even the Behind the Scenes. Same thing happens to games, and to books in some cases (I even catch a Stephen King book reading a couple of weeks ago!)
Google has made a great job for the web, it is actually the fahter and mother of today’s Internet, clear, simple and cool enough to let us use it without showing us stupid yellow/red banners blinking all over the place (Altavista, Yahoo, AOL, where are you guys?). Google has made the Internet, what is today (in part). Youtube is what’s coming if you ask me. Haven’t you noticed how new gadgets now don’t come with a “Google” feature? but with a Youtube feature? (iPhone anyone?). I know I know, Youtube was bought by Google, but hey, Youtube isn’t Google, and it wasn’t made by Google. That means Google bought their competitor and made it their own partner, that’s very cool actually.
I’m not saying Google will disappear, it will just go for a vacation until it reorganizes itself. Blogger wasn’t a hit. Google Video wasn’t a hit either. Google stats was definitely not a hit. Youtube, it is indeed, a good hit for Google, since most of us don’t even use it anymore to look for entertainment (cellphones review, gadgets review, games review, movies review, books reviews, etc) now we just Youtube-it.
Funny how things turn out right?
I don’t want to make anyone nervous, but what the heck is going on with Google Maps? Some people found UFOs everywhere, they move from place to place, no shadows, looks like glowing, and they look metallic. If this is a joke from Google, is a bad one (I don’t know how safe I would feel if I know there is something in a satellite photo over my home that appears to be invisible for human eyes)
This is one of the photos people found:
And here’s the link
Here is the same one but closer:
Someone may think this is funny, but again, the United States had a terrorist attack over 9/11 (I presume people at Google remember this right?) if they are uploading fake “UFOs”, people, is not funny, citizens may get scared just because someone wanted to be funny.
If not, if that’s something that really appeared there, it may be a meteorologic balloon, or something else (like something in the lens of the satellite) and there is no reason to be alarmed. It’s very unlikely that what we are seeing there on those pics, and here, and here are flying disks with martians inside playing poker; but for the other hand, it appears the anomaly only appear one day, and the next one has moved to a different position, and in some cases, it is gone for good.
What the heck!
(Found via GoogleSightSeeing.com)
I don’t know where I read this today, but if you go to http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=URL you will see any page ready for cellphones or screen readers.
Try this blog for example and see how it looks like.
It’s pretty handy, instead of install another .css in your server, you just can give the gwt url to anyone who wants to look at your page through a cellphone. Cool ah? spread the word!
