As it turned out, sharing was not broken. Sharing was working fine and dandy, Google just wasn’t part of it. People were sharing all around us and seemed quite happy. A user exodus from Facebook never materialized. I couldn’t even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice, “social isn’t a product,” she told me after I gave her a demo, “social is people and the people are on Facebook.” Google was the rich kid who, after having discovered he wasn’t invited to the party, built his own party in retaliation. The fact that no one came to Google’s party became the elephant in the room.
James Whittaker, “Why I Left Google” (via ddemaree)
His daughter’s a clever girl. If Google went belly up tomorrow, I don’t think I’ll miss it. That’s how far they’ve fallen.
Source: ddemaree
The weirdest search results you’ll ever see — Google search results rain
Superb idea.
Chrome - Notification bar overlaps with the browser UI, that way it can be distinguished from fake bars.
/via stefanwehrmeyer
Source: littlebigdetails
PageLeap - Google Chrome Extension W.I.P
PageLeap is an extension I made to scratch a personal itch and I use it heavily every day. I want to release it to the public, but the desire to add more features is so overwhelming that the extension has been on the back-burner for 6 months now, as I try to think up of what potential features users might want and how I should go about implementing them without adding bloat. Here’s PageLeap…
…a simple list of quick shortcuts to pages you visit everyday. I’ve finally decided to screw features and post it as it is next week. It’s better than never being able to release it at all, right?
