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Google acquired image editing site Picnik today. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but you can read the announcements by Picnik and Google on their respective blogs.
This is interesting to me for a few reasons.
First, Picnik is the default image editing software built into Yahoo's photosharing site Flickr. While nobody has yet suggested that Picnik will be getting the boot from Flickr, it would seem to me an awkward relationship at best for a Yahoo property to be using a Google owned service for part of their offering. I suspect that Picnik gets dropped by Flickr and replaced with some sort of new offering.
But second, you have to ask yourself why Google would buy Picnik and why now.
The most logical application for Picnik at Google, would be for Google to integrate the software into their photo sharing property Picasa which competes with Flickr. The fact that Google would allocate $$$ towards Picasa right now may signal that they are getting serious about finally mounting some reasonable effort at trying to displace Flickr as the photo social sharing King of the internet.
What else makes me think this? Google Buzz. While I consider Flickr superior in a lot of ways to Picasa today, the biggest advantage that Flickr has always held over their competitors is how strong a grip they've had on the social aspect of photo sharing. But now that Buzz has arrived on the scene (and your Buzz photos go into Picasa albums by default by the way), it would appear that Google finally has a viable social network to compete with Flickr's own internal social network inside of Flickr. By combining the social power of buzz, with an enhanced version of Picasa, Google could mount a formidable competing offering to Yahoo's Flickr.
Personally I hope this is the case. Why? Because Flickr needs competition. Not only have they grown lazy in terms of innovation (because they can), they treat their users and their users' data disrespectfully (because they can) censoring users and nuking whole communities on their site. With a stronger competitor out there it may force Yahoo to finally begin beefing up Flickr as well as treating their users better than they have been.
I've been actively using Picasa for the past few weeks after not really using them for years, mostly because of their integration with Buzz. They are still a long ways away from Flickr. Flickr today is a much more elegant offering with far better organizational capabilities and a huge body of work already on the site which carries weight. But with the right engineers hacking on Picasa and the right $$$ being allocated from Google, I'm pretty sure Picasa could in fact build a better Flickr. Combining the social sharing aspects of Buzz with a beefed up Picasa from Google, would be a formidable offering on the social photo sharing space.
Certainly integrating Picnik into Picasa (weird how their names are so similar) will enhance Picasa a bit. But here are the things I think Picasa should also be working on if they want to offer viable competition to Flickr.
1. Picasa should redesign the service around the concept of the photostream. By default Picasa only has album views. But people think in terms of streams much of the time. Flickr has a stream AND albums (sets). Picasa just has albums (and sort of clunky albums at that). By retooling the site with a photostream as a primary view, Picasa would feel more comfortable for people who wanted to migrate away from Flickr and towards Picasa. Picasa could still have albums (just like Flickr has sets), but a photostream should be the primary main view.
2. Picasa needs better organizational tools. Flickr's organizer is *amazing*. In fact, it's probably what I'm impressed with more than anything that they've ever done. The ability to batch organize photos is powerful. Picasa's not as much. One very easy thing Picasa could do right away to improve their organizational capabilities would be to introduce SmartSets. SmartSets allow you to build albums/sets around the concept of tags. I can say, for instance, put all of my photos that are tagged/keyworded "neon" into my neon album/set. There could be better support this way for overlapping albums as well. I might have a Golden Gate Bridge album (for instance) that had all my Golden Gate Bridge photos. But those photos could also be in a SmartSet for my San Francisco photos too.
3. Picasa should make blogging photos easier. Flickr has super easy html code that you can easily cut and paste and then use to blog. Picasa allows this too but with more complicated tables that are difficult to custom size and are harder work to use. Picasa could easily copy flickr's approach and get more traction from bloggers wanting to use Picasa to host their photos.
4. Picasa needs a better "Recent Activity" view. "Recent Activity" may be the most viewed page on Flickr for active users. Picasa needs a better way for you to easily and quickly view what's going on with your photos. Likes/comments/tags/etc. in a central page view on Picasa.
5. Picasa needs a super easy to use Flickr-Picasa importer. Our photos belong to us. Not Flickr. So does the metadata (tags, geotags, etc.) associated with our photos. Much of this data today is trapped in the silo that is Flickr. Picasa should build an application that makes it super simple to (with the press of a button) transfer all of your Flickr photos (and metadata) easily over to Picasa. If Flickr won't grant Picasa a commercial API key for this, then Google/Picasa should make a point of publicizing that Yahoo/Flickr is not serious about user data portability and a more open and relevant web.
There is a ton more that Picasa could do to compete with Flickr. Hopefully today's announcement of Picnik is but a first step in a serious attempt by Google to build a viable competitor to Flickr.
Congratulations, by the way, to the Picnik team on today's exciting announcement.
I used this to illustrate my brief article about how most searches for the keyword term "PageRank" happen within the city of Mountain View california. Check out my blog article, "Google Employees Can't Find PageRank".
這樣的公司，吃上是絕對不能含糊。Google內部一條規矩就是，一百英尺之內必有食物。
曾經有一位工程師覺得並沒有做到這一點，就量了一下他與最近的食物之間的距離，果真發現超過了100英尺，距離是120英尺。於是他幽默地要求後勤部門改進自己的服務，對方的回答十分經典:你的頭頂就是餐廳，距離你絕對沒有超過100英尺!
Google’ın kurucu ortaklarından Larry Page’in Silikon Vadisi merkezli uçan otomobil projesi geliştiren Zee.Aero şirketine ortak olduğu ortaya çıktı. Larry Page’in, 2010 yılında Google’ın Mountain View’daki merkezinin hemen yanında kurulan Zee.Aero’ya kurulduğu günden bu yana yatırım yaptığı belirt...
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The animated live projection of current search queries from around the world - Only at the Google HQ main lobby in Mountain View, CA
Sant Atar Singh (1867-1927), of Gurdwara Reru Sahib at Rampur, in Ludhiana district in the Punjab, was born in March of 1867 at the village of Lopon, now in Faridkot district. He was the son ofLal Singh, the village headman. Atar Singh was married in 1885 to Bishan Kaur of Todarpur, a village near Samrala. A son, Indar Singh, was born to them in 1887. On 8 June 1887, Atar Singh enlisted in the 36th Sikh Battalion (present 2nd Battalion of the Sikh Regiment). While in the army, he received the vows of the Khalsa. He was promoted sergeant on 16 June 1896. Once, while his battalion was in the Peshawar region, he along with several of his comrades went to see Sant Karam Singh of Hoti Mardan, who was then widely known for his piety.
Atar Singh, a devout Sikh, instantly fell under the saint`s spell, and determined to lead a life of seva (service) and simran (meditation). Once, while on leave from his regiment, he visited Rampur where he found the old historical shrine, Reru Sahib, commemorating Guru Gobind Singh`s brief halt under a reru tree (Mimosa leucophloea) during his journey from Machnivara towards the Malva country in December 1705. Seeing the site in such a dilapidated state he became determined to have it rebuilt.
During his next leave, in 1901, he with the help of the local Sangat reconstructed Manji Sahib, the inner sanctum. He continued to spent his leave periods expanding the building and, after his retirement on 18 October 1907, he settled permanently at Rampur. He developed a Guru ka Langar, and initiated monthly congregations on fullmoon days. He also opened a school where young boys, especially the poor and the blind, were given instruction in scripture reading and Kirtan (hymn singing) with a view to training them as preachers of Sikhi.
After 20 years of service Sant Atar Singh died at Gurdwara Reru Sahib on 21 January 1927. He was succeeded by Sant Bhagvan Singh who kept the Reru Sahib legend alive. Sant Bhagvan Singh, in his turn, continued to manage the Gurdwara until his death in 1975 giving some 48 years of service to the Gurwara that was once almost forgotten save the love and care of Sant Atar Singh.
SANT ATTAR SINGH(18671927), of Gurdwara Reru Sahib at Rampur, in Ludhiana district in the Punjab, was born in March 1867 at the village ofLopon, now in Faridkot district. He was the son ofLal Singh, the village headman. Atar Singh was married in 1885 to Bishan Kaur ofTodarpur, a village near Samrala. A son, Indar Singh, was born to them in 1887. On 8 June 1887, Atar Singh enlisted in the 36th Sikh Battalion (present 2nd Battalion of the Sikh Regiment). While in the army, he received the vows of the Khalsa. He was promoted sergeant on 16 June 1896. Once, while his battalion was in the Peshawar region, he along with several of his comrades went to see Sant Karam Singh of HotiMardan, who was then widely known for his piety. Atar Singh, a devout Sikh, instantly fell under the saint's spell, and determined to lead a life of seva (service) and simran (meditation). Once, while on leave from his regiment, he visited Rampur where he found the old his torical shrine, Reru Sahib, commemorating Guru Gobind Singh's brief halt under a reru tree (Mimosa leucophloea) during his journey from Machnivara towards the Malva country in December 1705, in a dilapidated state and determined to have it rebuilt. During his next leave, in 1901, he with the help of the local sangat reconstructed Manji Sahib, the inner sanctum. He spent his leave periods expanding the building and, after his retirement on 18 October 1907, he settled permanently at Rampur. He developed Guru ka Langar, and initiated monthly congregations on fullmoon days. He also opened a school where young boys, especially the poor and the blind, were imparted instruction in scripturereading and kirtan or hymnsinging with a view to training them as preachers of Sikhism. Sant Atar Singh died at Gurdwara Reru Sahib on 21 January 1927. He was succeeded by Sant Bhagvan Singh who kept the Reru Sahib legend alive. Sant Bhagvan Singh continued to manage the Gurdwara until his death in 1975.
One day when Sant Baba Attar Singh Ji was visiting the city of Hyderabad, in the province of Sind, he happened to pass by the local mental institution. Sant Ji expressed a desire to see the mentally sick people who resided in that instituion.
A Singh who was with Sant Ji went and asked the person in charge of the hospital if Sant Ji could come and visit the patients. The person in charge of the hospital had heard about the greatness of Sant Attar Singh Ji and was therefore more than happy to let this flower of Dhan Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj enter and bless that place with his presence.
When Sant Ji first went inside the hospital, the patients were making all kinds of noises and doing all sorts of things which any normal person would not do. Sant Ji immediately sat down on the floor and began to do kirtan.
As soon as Gurbani began to resound throughout the hospital every single patient came and sat around Sant Ji with their eyes closed and their minds completely focused on the shahbad. When Sant Ji had finished doing Kirtan he did an ardas to Dhan Dhan Satguru Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj, the king of kings and the saint of saints. At the conclusion of this ardas Sant Ji told the man in charge that Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj has done his most amazing kirpa and had cured all the patients of all their maladies.
Many doctors who were working at the hospital at the time who had witnessed this event came and examined each patient individually. To their amazement every single patient was completely cured. All of them were subsequently discharged and sent home.
How do they do this? The % sparklines seem to have a baseline of 0, though the others seem to have a more dynamic range so that their base is > 0.
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched on May 25, 2007, in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include cities and rural areas worldwide.
On each of these vehicles there are nine directional cameras for 360° views at a height of about 2.5 metres, GPS units for positioning and three laser range scanners from SICK AG for the measuring of up to 50 meters 180° in the front of the vehicle (the scanners fitted to his car appear not to be SICK scanners). These are used for recording a rough 3D model of the surroundings, enabling faux-3D transitions between distinct panoramas where the environment images are momentarily mapped onto this 3D model while being crossfaded to create an animated perspective change as the user travels from one panorama to another.
Privacy advocates have objected to this Google feature, pointing to views found to show men leaving strip clubs, protesters at an abortion clinic, sunbathers in bikinis, and people engaging in activities visible from public property in which they do not wish to be seen publicly. The concerns have led to several temporary bans of Street View in countries around the world. Google maintains that the photos were taken from public property; however, an individual taking pictures of private property using a ladder to gain a view not normally available to a pedestrian would be prosecuted for invasion of privacy or harassment in many jurisdictions worldwide. Google has yet to address this concern. The service also allows users themselves to flag inappropriate or sensitive imagery for Google to review and remove.