Our hearts and condolences go to the victims of the explosions at Boston Marathons.
Google Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosion
Conehead and Google Glass
For some obvious reasons I really think that one of these Glassholes is a Conehead. Apparently it is only Marc Andreessen.
Seriously, the term “Glasshole” would be so appropriate.
p.s. John Gruber also says “Glassholes“
Blink and Servo
It is a back to back news on web browsers.
First, Mozilla and Samsung are working together on new Servo web browser engine for Android and ARM. Servo itself is written in Rust, a programming language developed by Mozilla.
Should Samsung ever want to fork Android, they would have their own web browser.
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Second, Google announces Blink, a new open source rendering engine based on WebKit.
In a sense that Google is in a disagreement on what direction Webkit should go.
Bring on all the different web browsers, as long as they adhere to one HTML standard.
Google Glass in 2010
This is what Google Glass look like back in 2010.
Screenshots are from Futurama “Attack of the Killer App” – iTunes | Amazon
By the way, Bender will be back this summer 2013; Futurama will be back too.
WordPress reacts to the impending shutdown of Google Reader
WordPress.com invites Google Reader users to import their subscriptions to WordPress Reader.
Google Reader is scheduled to shut down on July 1, 2013. Many services such as Flipboard, NetNewsWire, Feedly, etc. integrate Google Reader into their Apps. Since the news of the impending shut down, many companies are working on alternatives to Google Reader.
Google removes ad-blocking apps from Google Play.
It is apparent that Google is having a who-cares-about-the-users-Wednesday. After announcing that Google Reader to shut down on July 1, 2013; Google apparently removes ad-blocking apps from its Google Play Store for Android.
From Phandroid:
It’s hump day, but there’s no time for middle-of-the-week celebration if you’re the developer of ad-blocking software on Android. According to several sources, Google has started sending notifications to developers with ad-blocking software in the Google Play Store regarding these apps’ removal. Players like AdBlock, AdAway, AdFree and more are being whisked away.
So why, exactly, is Google bringing the ban hammer down on these unfortunate souls? Well, they seem to violate section 4.4 of the Play Store developer agreement. Said section states:
You agree that you will not engage in any activity with the Market, including the development or distribution of Products, that interferes with, disrupts, damages, or accesses in an unauthorized manner the devices, servers, networks, or other properties or services of any third party including, but not limited to, Android users, Google or any mobile network operator. You may not use customer information obtained from the Market to sell or distribute Products outside of the Market.
AdBlock is one of the casualties.
Meanwhile, Android is still open.
Strike that!
Android is Still Open™.
It is such a weird Wednesday with Google. Earlier today, Google announced Andy Rubin stepped down as head of Android™ team.
Google Reader to Shut Down July 1, 2013.
Be ready to say goodbye to another Google product. Google Reader to shut down on July 1, 2013.
There are still a lot of people that are actually using Google Reader, unlike the trumped-up Google+ number of users. RSS readers such as NetNewsWire give users option to sync with Google Reader,
As usual, Google provide users the ability to download their data through Google Takeout.
Feedly immediately jumped on the news, welcoming the soon to be ex-Google Reader users.
