Pau Tomàs in the forum writes: Last thursday I attended Madrid's Google Devfest and one of the things I liked the most was one of the latest additions to Google Chrome, the speech attribute on the input fields. It allows to fill form fields using the microphone )without Flash!( and Google technology for speech recognition. I wanted to play a little with the techonology so I created a game as a weekend project.

Tension has been mounting for some time between Facebook and its increasingly unhappy users [1] . As the web giant commits one breach of trust after another with no intention of maintaining what level privacy is left for its users, the online world itches for a suitable alternative. While Facebook was able to swiftly supplant MySpace's monopoly with their own, a much more successful one at that,

... and let's say that's what most people prefer, then why doesn't Google permanently remember my account's search setting that I don't want them opened in a new window/ tab? )At least that seems to be the behavior I'm getting here.( [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Why is Google's default to open result links ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? AllPosters.

Has anyone of you started to prepare their web sites and apps for the Chrome Web Store ? I mean the thing Google calls "installable web apps", which is "a normal website with a bit of extra metadata". [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Have you tried preparing a web app for the Ch .

Looxcie is a ~$200 camera you plug into your ear, which then records everything you see, following your field of vision. Several hours are recorded, with new stuff overwriting the old... and if you see anything interesting, you click its button and have the last 30 seconds saved and shared on YouTube and other networks. To tune and manage the camera and see the clips you download an app onto an Android phone like Google Nexus.

While trying Internet Explorer 9 - Microsoft runs a Reddit ad campaign trying to get some feedback - and running into quirky behavior during installation and browsing, I realized just how much of a great job Google Chrome is doing: it's lightweight, fast, minimalist, gets out of your way, has a powerful address bar, and its UI even gets more simplified from version to version. I guess the best piece of task-oriented software is the kind that you don't even notice.

Of course, some tiny percentage of sites may configure www as just another subdomain showing something different than non-www... What do you think? [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Chrome already got rid of the http://, ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? AllPosters.

According to Deadline ... The founders of Facebook aren't the only game-changing geeks poised to have their story told on a movie screen. Michael London's Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights to the Ken Auletta book Googled: The End of the World As We Know it .

Eric Schmidt talked to the Wall Street Journal : "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites.

Spiegel reports that German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take snapshots of all those )German( buildings which people asked Google Street View to remove. He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordinates, and in turn re-connect them with Google Maps. Jens believes that for the internet "we must apply the same rules as we do in the real world. Our right to take panoramic snapshots, for instance,

Do these things have a name, and what do they typically do? Gmail is chronically bad at filtering them out )or perhaps they do filter out many but there's just too much of them(. They usually come with an image attached, and as you can see in this case, a SWF attachment. [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Virus Game Attachments,

Looking for free sounds for a project of yours... say, atmospheric background noises, or a dog barking, or laughter, piano music, a squeaking door, or anything else? FreeSounds.org is a great collection of Creative Commons licensed WAVs, MP3, AIFF files and more. You can enter a whole lot of things into their search engine and get back a whole lot of great samples. You can hear a preview for every sound, and for downloading a quick registration will do.

Pingdom writes : Google is talking about fighting piracy, but perhaps the first thing they should focus on is actually making it possible for users to buy apps. All users. Sounds rather logical, doesn't it? So what are we talking about? The problem lies with Android Market. You can only pay for apps in 13 out of the 46 or so countries where Android phones are available. For those of you who like stats, 13 in 46 works out to less than 30%.

Wordstream created a visual overview of what they call the "Google graveyard" , that is, failed products. On the list are Google X, Google Catalog, Google Buzz and many more. )Nitpick: they call Google Answers the "answer to Yahoo Answers", though actually, Google Answers was made years before Yahoo Answers.( Then again, if you learn something from a cancelled product, perhaps in the end it won't have been a failure. Also see the lost features of Google ,

Paul Graham tells what went wrong, from his perspective, with Yahoo . "When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing. It was supposed to be what Google turned out to be ... What went wrong?" According to Paul, "Yahoo had two problems Google didn't: easy money, and ambivalence about being a technology company." [Via Andy .

NetworkWorld collected a couple of interesting quotes by Google boss Eric Schmidt on the subject of privacy and anonymity. He states that privacy is important, but shares some doubts over whether complete anonymity should/ will be granted in the future. Bruce Schneier on the other hand argues: Here's the problem: The very companies whose CEOs eulogize privacy make their money by controlling vast amounts of their users' information. Whether through targeted advertising,

I like the iPad as a casual device in general, but I love it as a two-player gaming device. Think of a board game where the pieces are magically moving... a game you can take to the cafe, to bars, play in the bus, on the train, whereever! With that in mind I created Ogs, which uses the great PhoneGap framework, allowing me to do it all in HTML/ JavaScript/ CSS. Please check out the video, and the game is now in the App Store .

Company-internal disagreements are natural and likely healthy but I think it's interesting what they are about - from the Wall Street Journal : By late 2008, Google executives were preparing to launch ads targeted at users' interests. But the specifics still remained controversial. Tensions erupted during a meeting with about a dozen executives at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters about 18 months ago when Messrs.

Google and Verizon released a proposal relating to net neutrality . They claim their efforts are for an open internet: "[T]here should be a new, enforceable prohibition against discriminatory practices ... Importantly, this new nondiscrimination principle includes a presumption against prioritization of Internet traffic - including paid prioritization. So, in addition to not blocking or degrading of Internet content and applications,

ABC News writes : South Korean police said they raided Google Inc's Seoul office on Tuesday on suspicion that the Internet search leader had illegally collected data on users. Google has been preparing since late last year to launch its "Street View" service in South Korea and the data collection was related to the launch, police said. [Thanks TomHTML !