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Volumes of data

February 9th, 2010

2.3 million photos with location data were uploaded to Flickr this month; 95,634,285 in total. That’s according to Brady Forrest’s post over at O’Reilly Radar on the appearance of Flickr photos on Google Street View. 2.3 million in one month!

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Drupal gets 20 slots in the Google Summer Of Code 2007

April 12th, 2007

Google will be sponsoring 20 Drupal projects as part of their Summer Of Code this year, that’s a phenomenal result for the Drupal community.

Thank you to Google for the unbelievably generous support. This represents $100,000 worth of financial contributions to Drupal development, $10,000 of which will be donated to the Drupal Association.

A few of the projects that will be worth keeping an eye on are the Jabber/XMPP integration, RSS/Atom improvements, an SMS framework, and an automated staging environment toolkit.

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Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn

October 10th, 2006

After all the speculation over the past few days it’s finally happened.

The two companies will continue to operate independently, Google said as it announced the news on Monday.

Damn, there go all the “GooTube” and “Yoogle” mashup parodies then.

Update: Interesting commentary about the deal at Read/Write Web:

There is a LOT of talk about the deal, but for me it’s significant as a watershed moment for the Web and online video. If Google is willing to spend $1.65B on the leading online video company, then they must believe that for both YouTube and the online video industry as a whole — there is a lot more growth to come.

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Run!!! They’re coming!!!

September 28th, 2006

Holy shit, that’s one big earwig. Run for your lives people!

(What the hell kind of pesticide are the Germans using?)

Hat tip: Boing Boing

Update: Damn my weakness at entomology. According to this post on the Google Earth forum it’s a thrips. Poor thing got squished between a glass plate and the film during scanning.

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Supercool

March 13th, 2006

Google Mars.

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