oddtag's posterous http://oddtag.posterous.com Most recent posts at oddtag's posterous posterous.com Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:19:43 -0800 A digital Googlenaissance http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-digital-googlenaissance http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-digital-googlenaissance txt: A digital renaissance: partnering with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage
The Renaissance, Europe's period of cultural, political and scientific rebirth, began in Florence around 600 years ago. At Google we're interested in a (small “r”) renaissance of a different kind — a digital one. Since the launch of Google Books, we’ve been working with libraries and publishers around the globe to bring more of the world's books to more readers around the globe. Any school child should be able to access the works of Petrarch, Dante or Vico (or, if they're so inclined, Machiavelli). In the case of these more famous authors, this is already largely possible, but what about the work of Guglielmo il Giuggiola or Coluccio Salutati? We want all of the great literature and writings of Italy to be accessible to the general public.
links: - MiBAC / Google: Conferenza Stampa di presentazione di uno storico accordo - Europeana

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:31:38 -0800 A random place in the world: Carnarvon Rd, Hong Kong http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-random-place-in-the-world-carnarvon-rd-hong http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-random-place-in-the-world-carnarvon-rd-hong Google maps is an impressive way to look the world. Like when the childs point a finger random on the globe, and dream about it. [googlemaps http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=it&geocode=&q=...,12.392578&sspn=16.458104,39.506836&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hong+Kong&layer=c&cbll=22.298978,114.173659&panoid=wzNIV23efnG8MhKFy6dKEw&cbp=13,203.24,,0,6.9&ll=22.396428,114.109497&spn=0,359.951763&z=14&output=svembed&w=500&h=400]

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Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:06:20 -0800 Some kind of nirvana http://oddtag.posterous.com/some-kind-of-nirvana http://oddtag.posterous.com/some-kind-of-nirvana txt Why Google Employees Quit - www.techcrunch.com
Those of us who failed to thrive at Google are faced with some pretty serious questions about ourselves. Just seeing that other people ran into the same issues is a huge relief. Google is supposed to be some kind of Nirvana, so if you can’t be happy there how will you ever be happy? It’s supposed to be the ultimate font of technical resources, so if you can’t be productive there how will you ever be productive?
video Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World: Live - universalmusicgroup on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=209ArurxVG4]

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Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:11:54 -0700 New art new money http://oddtag.posterous.com/new-art-new-money http://oddtag.posterous.com/new-art-new-money [txt] The Seeds of the Next Big Thing Are Being Planted Now www.techcrunch.com
What does this say about the nature of technological development and its relationship to the economy? That technological developments breed innovation, and that innovation can produce economic benefits with demonstrable impacts on the bottom line. No one knows what the next Google will be, but if it is not being built now, then someone will probably start working on it in the near future. Don’t stop working on side projects and ideas that interest you, because those ideas not only might turn into brilliant products or services but also might turn into the economic catalyst that spurs our economy onward.
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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:42:24 -0700 More is different http://oddtag.posterous.com/more-is-different http://oddtag.posterous.com/more-is-different txt: The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
The Petabyte Age is different because more is different. Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud. As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies. At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics. It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later. For instance, Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics. It didn't pretend to know anything about the culture and conventions of advertising — it just assumed that better data, with better analytical tools, would win the day. And Google was right.
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