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.
― yeah (kelpolaris), Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― yeah (kelpolaris), Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― stet, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 March 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Likehttp://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/bunsen11-hp.png
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Thursday, 31 March 2011 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Thursday, 31 March 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 March 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i56.tinypic.com/2h8cpl1.jpg
a tribute to the pioneering Civilian Conservation Corps astronaut Yuri Gagarin
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
^ best one yet imo
― Grotjahn in the Moma (Pillbox), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
otm, so great
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"О да, действительно!
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
the Richard Trevithick tribute is great and subtle too:
http://i55.tinypic.com/mc43ux.jpg
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
although I wish it chugged and belched out steam when you moused over it
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Wonder what they'll do for Richard Speck's upcoming centennial.
― Øystein, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 07:18 (thirteen years ago) link
video!
― koogs, Friday, 15 April 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Today is a fakey Charlie Chaplin video
― Mark G, Friday, 15 April 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
kill marketing dept
― if u see l ron this weekend be sure & tell him THETAN THETAN THETAN (Edward III), Friday, 15 April 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― goole, Friday, 15 April 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljx53oH6FP1qgy35io1_500.png
― mizzell, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
they should've gone with hitler's birthday
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
(could've reused chaplin video 8)
http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-1.jpg
rah!
― no xmas for jonchaies (nakhchivan), Monday, 9 May 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah and it changes to a new Mr Mans/Womans when you refresh too :D
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Monday, 9 May 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
my favourite...http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-5.jpg
― these are my everyday balloons (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 9 May 2011 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Damn I didn't mean that one - I meant this one...http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-14.jpg
― these are my everyday balloons (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 9 May 2011 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
love all these
― no xmas for jonchaies (nakhchivan), Monday, 9 May 2011 12:06 (thirteen years ago) link
love today's martha graham animation
― Roz, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah it was beautifully done! So elegant!
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not an animated gif, lol
http://www.google.com/logos/2011/graham11-hp-sprite.png
― StanM, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh, I never think of animated pngs. How'd you aslpode it like that? When I do view img it only shows one frame.
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 06:40 (thirteen years ago) link
right clicked on the page in Firefox -> page info -> media -> list of all media on that page, including that overview picture
― StanM, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 06:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Neat.
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 06:48 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlj-n0ouPFo
(for those who haven't got google)
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pdjDK.jpg
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 9 June 2011 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/scarry11-hp.png
from the other day (small)
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 June 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
sort of love the google logos that are utterly illegible even though you know what they're supposed to say (hint: google)
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 June 2011 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Thursday, 9 June 2011 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Lee626, Thursday, 9 June 2011 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like an electric to me, like a twangy country style one.
― “this dog won’t hunt” doesn’t appear in the Book of Proverbs (Trayce), Thursday, 9 June 2011 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
I guess that's what an electric guitar built around a railroad log sound like, then....
― Lee626, Thursday, 9 June 2011 07:28 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 June 2011 07:58 (twelve years ago) link
Very 2003 retro Takashi Murakami Kaikai Kiki up today:http://www.google.com/logos/2011/murakami_summer-hp.png
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
so google launched another social network today http://grabby.tinygrab.com/cCqe
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://i52.tinypic.com/nb6udc.png
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
what was wrong with buzz I'd like to know
― snowball's epc in hell (Edward III), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
what a company cant have multiple failed social networks now
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
do any of you use google reader? does anyone comment or share on items in that? not particularly interested in doing so but i'm curious
― ~edgy~ (goole), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
today's Calder is nice. (shadow too!)
― koogs, Friday, 22 July 2011 09:14 (twelve years ago) link