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2006
Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project
by mbertier (via)Thanks to Google's sponsorship, we've been able to significantly improve the project's Quality Assurance process by creating a completely automated and distributed testing environment. Every single commit results in BIOS images being built for all mainboards, and tested on real hardware located all over the world. So whenever you want to download a LinuxBIOS image, you can now know that it works on a reference machine before flashing it to your system.
Google and Creative Commons
by mbertier (via)Because of the important work Creative Commons accomplished over the past year, Google has decided again to donate $30,000 to their cause. Here's an update on some of the awesome work they've been doing:
Goggles :: The Google Maps flight sim
by François Hodierne & 15 others (via)Un "mini simulateur de vol" basé sur Google Maps. Incroyable.
2005
phil ringnalda dot com: Google News feeds: meh
by François Hodierne"Yay, Google News now has RSS and Atom feeds. But, boo, they have RSS and Atom feeds. Both. With no real reason to choose between them: both have heinous escaped table-and-font HTML as the only content, both have escaped numeric character references in the titles "
Gmail adds feed reading
by François Hodierne & 4 others"there's a new feature in Gmail called Web Clips, which displays little headlines above your inbox or message and is fed via, um, feeds."
Butler
by François Hodierne & 6 others (via)Butler enhances Google search results by adding links to competitors. It also removes ads, changes typography, and a few other useful things.
How To Find MP3's With Google
by mbertier & 33 others (via)This How-To will teach you how to use google to find mp3s.
Google Toolbar AutoLink
by François Hodierne"As content providers, let's not try and reach into our readers' computers and dictate what they can or can't do with the copies of our content that they've downloaded for their personal use" Amen
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