I came across this video the other day, and in the middle part it has some interesting concepts about Home Automation. For example, if it was freezing overnight, the alarm clock would automatically go off 5 minutes earlier to give you time to scrape off the car.
Android Multi-Touch tablet prototype
May 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Zedomax blog has a preview of an Android tablet running Android at the Adobe exhibit at Web 2.0. Although the preview shows off a lot of the functions (including the ability to run Flash and Air applications on the tablet), there are two distinct disadvantages for an Android/Flash tablet:
- The number of apps available for Android versus the iPad
Currently Apple has more than 180,000 apps, versus Android about 50,000 apps. I hate to quote Balmer, but “Developers! Developers! Developers!”. If I have a platform where the 1 millionth device just shipped, versus a new platform, I’d go with the 1 million device user base. - The different user interface a (touch) tablet requires versus a mouse drive app.
Examples of this are hover functions, double-click, etc., which have to be redesigned for a touch interface.
One of the big advantages would be the ability to put an app on an Android tablet without having to go through a vetting process at Apple that is less than transparent. Also, chances are the device will be cheaper, based on Google‘s philosophy that the more people use the web, the better it is for Google.
I guess we’ll have to wait until the end of the year to see what the Android tablet will look like, how much it will cost, and how it will perform.
Google Follow Finder finds people to follow for you on Twitter
May 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In This Week in Google of a week or two ago, a tool was mentioned to find people on twitter that match your social graph. The tool is available at http://followfinder.googlelabs.com/ and simply asks you for a Twitter user name.
After entering your name, Follow Finder looks at your followers, and finds people that are similar to the people that you already follow, and people that have similar followers to you. The result page then shows you two columns:
So, if you’re looking for more people to follow on Twitter, try Follow Finder, and see if the people it suggests are what you’re looking for.
New search results in Google?
May 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I just entered a search query for Notepad++ in Google Chrome, and the results page looked slightly different from what I’m used to:
Most notably, the left hand side is much cleaner. Clicking on the drop-down below “Everything” will show you the different categories (Images, Videos, etc.). The Search tools option lets you choose between “Any Time” and “Last 3 months”, and expanding it will show you a new list of options:
- Limit to a time period
- Social graph results
- Visited or not
- Display of results
- Standard results
I’m still trying to get used to it, but it looks like the result page is in line with Google’s minimalistic philosophy.
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