google logos

i think the thing w/any twitter killer - which is to say a sort of a la carte broadcast signal - is that it truly has to be a platform - like twitter and facebook sort of claim theyre platforms but they also want to be free to be apps when they want and squeeze out developers

def one of the scenarios in the future for twitter/facebook failure is that a lot of what they do gets taken over in a ho hum nbd way by an open standard and it just becomes like email or w/e and no one even really notices cause its such a mundane thing by then

thats kind of what dave winer is thinking abt http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/03/rebootingRssRevisited.html

anyway as far as this im skeptical that google can succeed w/a copycat 'social network' - fb/twitter imo at this point are too big to be taken down by something that obviously looks like them - its the new idea that theyve got to worry abt

also i mean lol orkut and buzz - third times the charm right

http://circles.google.com/ was redirecting to a Google search page for 'Circles' earlier, now it's a 404.

A representative for Google told NetworkEffect unequivocally that no such service is launching at SXSW today. She would not say whether something called Google Circles was in the works.

so tomorrow

The funny thing about the fb vs myspace scenario was that fb offered significantly less...formatted profiles, no area for "customization", everything condensed into menus. But it came at a point when myspace was at it's most excessive and obnoxious.. ppl seemed to welcome that, as well as the "maturity" that came with fb and all that bullshit...

imo the latest facebook profile revision (as of feb, when i deleted my account) was verging on eyesore, with those massive collages of "HERE ARE MY FAVORITE BANDS - ALL 744 OF THEM" . but fb's still managed to counter that w/ the drop-down.. and plus just the fact that it's a social staple. i don't think anything is capable of "killing" another platform instantaneously... if anything would overtake facebook, it would be progressively. fb was around for years in "coexistence" w/ myspace until kids started deciding they couldn't hear Fall Out Boy on auto-play for the 3248203 time.

i guess what i'm trying to say that if circles is to prove any sort of success, it can't just mime what facebook has and expect the google moniker to carry them into graceland. it should monopolize on something fb's doing wrong.. which, atm, i can't think of anything.

It's awful at privacy scoping. People bascially have about five social circles -- family, work, close friends, acquaintances, public -- and Facebook flattens them all into one. If you try to hide stuff from certain people they'll get in yr grille about it, fam demanding to know why they're limited profile, work ppl making comments about nto seeing any pics. And because you can't go public in any controlled way at all, ppl use a whole diff service (Twitter) for that.

"Circles" sounds like they're going to make a stab at fixing that.

yeah i guess the challenge is making it user friendly - like facebooks experience w/trying to institute these type of controls is that even tho people claim to want the functionality they still never use it - its k a design issue really

im imagining w/circles, just judging by the name, google is trying to make it work by having that aspect be completely overt and central - kinda doubt google has the ux chops to get it right tho

the thing i would like is being able to customise the kind of content i get from a feed, i mean i subscribe to the nytimes art feed but there's all the theatre stuff and like news stories and really i only read holland cotter and ideally i could customise the kind of content i get better, or even better have the option of automatic content filtering based on my history.

Like
http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/bunsen11-hp.png

The vertical position of your mouse pointer controls the height of the bunsen flame, horizontal position controls the flame colour, and some combination of the two controls the relative levels of the blue and red liquids.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2011/0331/Robert-Bunsen-The-man-behind-today-s-Google-Doodle

Oddly, after the first paragraph, this website calls him Bensen throughout.

(This is the first link if you click on the Google logo)

http://i56.tinypic.com/2h8cpl1.jpg

a tribute to the pioneering Civilian Conservation Corps astronaut Yuri Gagarin

^ best one yet imo

otm, so great

"О да, действительно!

the Richard Trevithick tribute is great and subtle too:

http://i55.tinypic.com/mc43ux.jpg

although I wish it chugged and belched out steam when you moused over it

Wonder what they'll do for Richard Speck's upcoming centennial.

video!

Today is a fakey Charlie Chaplin video

kill marketing dept

not to sound like a corner writer or anything but celebrating yuri gagarin on the anniversary of the start of the (american) civil war kind of rubbed me the wrong way

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljx53oH6FP1qgy35io1_500.png

they should've gone with hitler's birthday

(could've reused chaplin video 8)

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-1.jpg

rah!

Yeah and it changes to a new Mr Mans/Womans when you refresh too :D

my favourite...
http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-5.jpg

Damn I didn't mean that one - I meant this one...
http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-14.jpg

love all these

love today's martha graham animation

Yeah it was beautifully done! So elegant!

it's not an animated gif, lol

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/graham11-hp-sprite.png

Huh, I never think of animated pngs. How'd you aslpode it like that? When I do view img it only shows one frame.

right clicked on the page in Firefox -> page info -> media -> list of all media on that page, including that overview picture

Neat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlj-n0ouPFo

(for those who haven't got google)

http://i.imgur.com/pdjDK.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/scarry11-hp.png

from the other day (small)

sort of love the google logos that are utterly illegible even though you know what they're supposed to say (hint: google)

I like the Scarry logo (we didn't get to see it in the UK).
Also I like how the Les Paul logo can be played, either by strumming the strings with the mouse pointer, or by using the keyboard.

Interesting open tunings on the guitar!

But shouldn't a Les Paul tribute be an electric guitar? (sounds like an acoustic to me, but maybe it's just my crappy laptop speakers)

The keyboard mapping is a hoot - I'm trying to play stuff on it now; it actually works more like a piano keyboard.

Sounds like an electric to me, like a twangy country style one.

I guess that's what an electric guitar built around a railroad log sound like, then....

okay, i hadn't realized you could play this it! so awesome. sounds electric and twangy, but not at all distorted. like a clean les paul!

Very 2003 retro Takashi Murakami Kaikai Kiki up today:
http://www.google.com/logos/2011/murakami_summer-hp.png

so google launched another social network today http://grabby.tinygrab.com/cCqe

http://i52.tinypic.com/nb6udc.png