Tag Archives: Google

Dan Savage makes the ten year best-of clip: “From the silly to the profound, from the personal to the political, we’re celebrating a decade of your creativity and self-expression. And, we’re doing it from A to Z.  With over 75 references and 18 filmmaking styles, we’ve tried to capture some of the richness and variety of YouTube from the last …

In response to the ongoing RFRA battles, a coalition of over 100 major tech industry corporations has issued a joint statement calling for full federal LGBT anti-discrimination protections. The values of diversity, fairness and equality are central to our industry. These values fuel creativity and inspiration, and those in turn make the U.S. technology sector the most admired in the …

Other corporate pranks include Google’s backwards search page, the Google Maps Pac-Man takeover, and the Chrome selfie app.

Stereogum recaps: Mark Mothersbaugh was born legally blind. It wasn’t until he was in second grade that he was finally diagnosed with myopia and got his first pair of glasses. In a new animated video made for Google Play, the DEVO member narrates how his discovery of the world led him to want to become an artist. Then, he recounts …

Via the Guardian: Google has backtracked on plans to ban sexually explicit images from its blogging platform Blogger, in the face of widespread opposition from users. The company had initially announced a ban on “sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video”, with just a few exceptions for content which offered “a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, …

Via CNN Money: In an announcement that was sent out to bloggers who use the company’s blogging website, Google said people will no longer be able to “publicly share images and video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity” on Blogger as of March 23. Google said those Blogger sites that continue to host pornography after March 23 will …

Via Business Insider: To celebrate YouTube’s incorporation ten years ago this month, The Daily Conversation put together a list of the 101 biggest YouTube videos ever and then compiled them all into one 16-minute supercut. Highlighting such gems as “Star Wars Kid,” “The Sneezing Baby Panda,” “Shoes,” “Surprised Kitty,” “Potter Puppet Pals,” and so many more, the video will send …

Yesterday would have been the 113th birthday of famed gay poet and activist Langston Hughes. Google marked the occasion with the below Google Doodle. (Tipped by JMG reader David)

(Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)

Russia can tear down their monument to Steve Jobs because Apple CEO Tim Cook has come out, but that won’t save their stock market. Via the Telegraph: Apple is now worth more than Russia’s stock market, new data have revealed. The US technology giant’s market capitalisation has overtaken the combined value of all Russian public companies for the first time …

(Tipped by JMG reader Phil)

The White House yesterday appointed out Google executive Megan Smith as the Obama administration’s new Chief Technology Officer. Smith, the new U.S. CTO, is an MIT-trained mechanical engineer and entrepreneur with deep roots in the California tech world. She currently serves as a vice president at Google[x], the company’s lab for ambitious next-generation projects, like its delivery-by-drone Project Wing and …

A reporter from the Guardian talked to Daniel Radcliffe about self-Googling. I wonder if he has ever Googled himself and seen the automatic search entries, but before I finish the question he’s started reeling them off: “Daniel Radcliffe alcoholic. Daniel Radcliffe gay. Daniel Radcliffe girlfriend,” he says, sighing as he does. Actually, I tell him, girlfriend is the top result …

Via TechCrunch: Orkut, the social networking service Google launched back in 2004, miraculously survived multiple rounds of spring cleaning despite the fact that it was never a huge hit outside of Brazil, India and a few other countries. It was always just a matter of time before Google was going to shut it down, however, and that day has now …

Forbes breaks it down: Google’s answer to VR? Cardboard. Or, rather, a DIY cardboard headset equipped with cheap lenses into which you slide your smartphone. Simply download the Cardboard app and you’re ready to roll, all for a few bucks in materials. Which is—let’s face it—about as weird an idea as anyone could dream up, but also sort of brilliant; …

Google has altered the sign on its massive Chelsea headquarters. Every year several hundred “Gayglers” march in New York City’s pride parade. Source.

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