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Back from the Google Wilderness

Some time ago, I noticed the traffic on this site dropping off rapidly.

Google Prediction API – Google Code

The sentiment analysis part of this API might be useful for several project students who want to look into the statistics of public opinion without spending a lifetime writing the core software.

Google European Doctoral Fellowships

Students considering (or already studying) a PhD might like to take a look into Google’s funding opportunities.

Authentication and The Google APIs

Introduction to Google’s three main authentication systems: AuthSub, Oauth and ClientLogin.

Prettify

Library for prettifying code. Nice.

Breaking URLs the AJAX Way

A while back this “Making AJAX Applications Crawlable” article identified a means of making AJAX more crawl-able. The idea of squeezing the path into the fragment and handing this via JavaScript is silly. Everything shares the same URL. Bad Google, no biscuit this time.

Google Webmaster Central Channel

Webmaster details. Stuff you want to know if you run a website. Not the designer HTML look and feel stuff. Just the day-to-day practicalities of how Google does stuff. Their virtual monopoly ensures you need to know their interpretation of this, or fall by the wayside.

Cloud Edits for Google Project Hosting

Previously @jresig tried a Google Chrome laptop (Cr-48) and hihlighed that for hardcore coding it’s not up to snuff. This looks like the first response that begins to make cloud-based contribution to open source projects really very easy.

Google APIs

APIs, thousands of ‘em. Don’t code ’till you see the #FFFs of their eyes lads.

Google Spreadsheets PHP API

Potentially very useful!

Google Custom Search

Google’s custom search service: makes it very difficult to use anyone else given the quality and potential “monetization” that agenda-modified search results can generate. A monopoly is born through quality.

Apache Wave

Google Wave is dead. Long live Apache Wave.

Google’s Evil Tax Haven Use

Brilliant for short term business profits. Attrotious for long term support of the territories in which they operate. I’ve been saying for a long time that Google’s UK tax dodge is evil, so it’s nice to know Prof Briloff agrees.

Rich snippets and structured markup

Google’s notes on semantic & structured markup using microformats and RDFa to enhance content.

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Google’s Rankings are Remarkably Well Correlated

SEO has a lot to do with LDA, it would appear.

Google Wave Developer Blog: Wave open source next steps: “Wave in a Box”

Google announce their intent to opensource most of the rest of Wave to enable third parties to build on top of it. This makes sense. Lots of the underlying collaboration technology is no doubt useful to Googl, and they’ve stated their intent to keep baking it into other products, so supporting third party wave protocol …

Google Code Playground

Sequential Email Addresses are Silly

A simple hint for email administrators everywhere. If you have a large number of users with unique sequential ID numbers, it may be tempting to use that ID as a primary email address, or an alias, but don’t do it. It’s an open invitation to spammers to target your users with the minimum of effort. …

Geo-Tagged Photos

For the last few weeks I’ve been testing out some geo-tagging software on my camera. The concept is fairly simple, whenever I take a photo, the built-in GPS works out where I am and records this metadata within the photo.

Mr. Deity

Mr. Deity shows what can be achieved with a static camera, a simple script, minimalist set design and great acting. Episode 5 was released yesterday. By releasing an episode every 2 weeks the producers hope to garner enough interest to turn it into a full TV series.