#google (171 links)
Let's take a look at everything new in Google Stitch to find out if it's just more hype, or if it really is a gamechanger for UI/UX design.
- Introducing A2UI: An open project for agent-driven interfaces - Google Developers Blog developers.googleblog.com
A2UI was designed to address the specific challenges of interoperable, cross-platform, generative or template-based UI responses from agents. A2UI allows agents to generate the interface which best suits the current conversation with the agent, and send it to a front end application.
- Fonts Knowledge - Google Fonts fonts.google.com
- Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content vincentschmalbach.com
From my experience, Google now seems to operate on a "default to not index" basis. It only includes content in its index when it perceives a genuine need.
Hurrah.
- Google Workspace Admin Security Guide — Digital Defense Fund digitaldefensefund.org
Some reasonable tips here.
- Rules of Machine Learning: | ML Universal Guides | Google Developers developers.google.com
Rule #1: Don’t be afraid to launch a product without machine learning.
How to opt-out of FLoC as a web user: Don’t use Google Chrome
- No More Google nomoregoogle.com
- Maps to GPX mapstogpx.com
This tool accepts a link to pre-made Google Directions and converts them to a GPX file. This file can be uploaded and used in sat-nav and GPS units.
- AMP and the Web - TimKadlec.com timkadlec.com
- Self-Hosting Google Web Fonts | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Google Authenticator is not iOS 7 compatible, will erase your tokens | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
There are alternatives to Google Authenticator? Good stuff.
- gdocs2md github.com
<blockquote>Convert a Google Drive Document to the Markdown format, suitable for publishing.</blockquote>
- The declining profitability of Google Adwords | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
<blockquote>Investing too heavily in someone else’s proprietary system for too long rarely ends gracefully, but when it bites us, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.</blockquote>
- Underscores vs. dashes in URLs - YouTube youtube.com
Freshest info (August 2011) from Matt Cutts.
- Say hello (or olá or halo or salam) to automatic message translation in Gmail gmailblog.blogspot.in
We'll also be retiring some less popular labs over the next few days: [...] Hide Unread Counts [...]
*cries*
- Google HTML/CSS Style Guide google-styleguide.googlecode.com
Not revolutionary but solid. Some moderately contentious parts.
- the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support theunderstatement.com
The Android landscape looks a bit screwed.
- How to style Google Forms | Morning Copy morningcopy.com.au
Lazy man's data capture.
- Customize Google Docs Forms googlesystem.blogspot.com
More bad, bad hacks.
- Google Web Fonts google.com
- Google Analytics’ New Site Speed Report Tracks Page Load Times | Optimisation Beacon optimisationbeacon.com
codepo8: Google Analytics now offers a site speed report, including page load times: http://mths.be/aza
- Google Recipe Search google.com
- Google APIs & Developer Products - January 2011 code.google.com
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Make your websites run faster, automatically -- try mod_pagespeed for Apache googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
- The Real Life Social Network v2 slideshare.net
Massive, quite useful presentation from Paul Adams at Google
- Google’s New Places API | Think Vitamin thinkvitamin.com
Now you have a massive, global, ever-growing database of places which you can use for your web app.
- Google's Python Class - Google Code code.google.com
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Working with multi-regional websites googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
"<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”ie=edge,chrome=1″>
As a webmaster, you can use this simple meta tag that the new stable release of Google Chrome Frame can detect, and if present, will render the page using Google Chrome rather than Internet Explorer. This gives users the appearance of using IE, but the speed and standards compliance, and security of Chrome."
Web UI for (batch) geocoding of UK postcodes with the (accurate!) Google Local Search API.
Good stats. "If you’re using jQuery on a public-facing site, use the Google CDN to host it." But don't use latest version in production.
- Google JavaScript Style Guide google-styleguide.googlecode.com
Answer: no. Clever hack with security implications. "In effect, this is taking the old phishing trick of homoglyph attacks—an attack consisting of using confusing look-a-like URLs like paypa1.com with the numeral one replacing the letter ell—and adding a dash of cross-site scripting but where you become the agent of infection: the supposed “censorship” may be shocking enough to cause you to forward the link."