google – Jonathan Frei https://jonathanfrei.com Based on a true story Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:00:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://i0.wp.com/jonathanfrei.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/favicon-160x1601.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 google – Jonathan Frei https://jonathanfrei.com 32 32 76405128 Meet your new robot overlords https://jonathanfrei.com/2014/01/meet-your-new-robot-overlords https://jonathanfrei.com/2014/01/meet-your-new-robot-overlords#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:26:56 +0000 http://104.131.64.180/?p=101 Google is building an army—a robot army—through a series of recent acquisitions. It’s interesting to see the variety of real world applications these robotics companies are already pursuing and imagine what they will be able to do in the future. Gizmodo recently took a closer look at what the eight most recent acquisitions are making.

Robot technology would help with self-driving cars, certainly, but the range of these acquisitions hints at even broader ambitions. Again, we don’t know much. They’re all a part of the Google X division, which is top secret by definition. We do know what the new companies in the Google family are up to, though, and that might offer us some clues.

Personally, I’ll feel safer driving in South Florida once robots pilot more of the vehicles on the road. Robot drivers will be far more predictable than the ones on the road now. However, I’m not sure how I’d feel about this guy walking down the street towards me…

Meet Google's Robot Army. It's Growing.

…or have this thing galloping in my direction.

A Closer Look at Google's New Robot Army

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It was a good run, but I see you’re ready to move on. Maybe it’s for the best we’re splitting up. I’m sure I’ll find somewhere else to read the Internet.

p.s. It won’t be Google+.

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It’s amazing that Chrome’s been out for four years now. It’s been my portal to the web since it launched. It is unusual that a piece of software keeps getting better with such consistently. The link above has a very cool timeline of major milestones in the app’s history.

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Google’s Think Quarterly has a series of data nuggets about the vast amount of creative output is published to the web every day.

]]> https://jonathanfrei.com/2012/04/quantify-creativity/feed 0 1181 The Ciphers of Social Media https://jonathanfrei.com/2012/03/the-ciphers-of-social-media https://jonathanfrei.com/2012/03/the-ciphers-of-social-media#respond Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:05 +0000 http://104.131.64.180/2012/03/the-ciphers-of-social-media/ The Ciphers of Social Media

Kevin Kelly:

[B]eware of large numbers in social media. The larger the number, the more fluffy it is.

Google+ has big numbers in their user stats, but as anyone who logs into the site can tell, it’s a ghost town. Big number on social media are good for the ego, good for selling to advertisers, but not good for much else. Direct engagement is where the real value is held. 

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Google+ is in trouble. You can have all the “registered users” you want, but if no one is using your service, it’s going to tank. (via The Mounting Minuses at Google – WSJ.com)

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This is what life was like before Google fixed it. 

(via Shoebox » Chuck & Beans)

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Don’t use math. (via Dilbert comic strip for 12/19/2011 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.)

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