Every year I like to ask what charities people are leaning toward.So here we go: what organizations, charities, or good causes are you supporting this year? Lately I’ve been interested in transparency and reform in government, so organizations like the Sunlight Foundation, MAPLight (Money and Politics), and Change Congress are on my list. I’m also [...]
When I was a kid and we visited family in New Jersey, I loved getting hoagie sandwiches. I’ve been looking for the best recipe of Italian hoagie for years. Here’s one that’s very good:3 slices Provolone4 slices Genoa salami4 slices cooked salami4 slices pepperoni4 slices Capicola hamLettuce, tomato, onionSalt, pepper, and oreganoOil and vinegarSweet peppers [...]
I’m not going to do a full live-blog, because it’s going to be well-covered by:- Danny Sullivan- Jason Kinkaid- Kara Swisheramong others. You can also register and watch the event as a webcast.Search by VoiceMarissa Mayer did a brief intro, then brought up Vic Gundotra. Vic is going to show a series of mobile demos [...]
It’s that time again! Tomorrow afternoon I’ll record some new videos. I created a Google Moderator page where you can post questions or suggestions and vote topics up and down. I won’t be able to answer every single question, but I’ll tackle several popular questions plus a few interesting questions. Please ask questions that lots [...]
I’m sitting in a room at Google waiting to hear more about Google Chrome OS. You can watch the webcast along with me if you like.For starters, here’s what Google announced about Chrome OS back in July. At that time, Google called out “speed, simplicity and security” as the key ideas behind Chrome OS. Google [...]
Last week I was in Las Vegas for PubCon, a conference for publishers, and I wanted to share the slides from my main presentation:When I get a chance, I’ll also re-create the talk on video and share the video with you, but in the mean time Lisa Barone did a nice live write-up and coverage [...]
Back in August we mentioned a developer preview of Caffeine, which is new technology that improves our indexing infrastructure. The feedback on Caffeine has been very positive, so we’re ready to move from the developer preview to the next stage of the roll out: going live with Caffeine at one data center. This means that [...]
This year for Halloween I tried to do a see-through hole in your body costume:It worked okay, but not great. The biggest problem was that I didn’t have a gadget lying around the house that could output live composite video. Both my normal video camera and my digital camera had exhausted batteries that wouldn’t recharge, [...]
One of my favorite personal blog posts is about not trapping users’ data. In late 2006, Eric Schmidt declared “We would never trap user data.” Many of the major Google properties (search, Gmail, Calendar) make it trivial to export or download your data.In the past, Google Docs would let you export a single doc at [...]
This year we’ve been making and posting videos on an official webmaster video channel, and earlier today we hit our one millionth video view. Making these little movies has been a ton of fun and we’ve covered dozens of topics for site owners.We decided to celebrate in a couple ways. First, we added captions to [...]
