We thank Twitter, everyone there, for the kick start it gave bit.ly. And we certainly hope we helped Twitter during a difficult scaling period.
via Bit.ly to Twitter: So Long, and Thanks for All the Links.
Essentially, when you want to print you'll be sending your request over to a Googlestation up in the clouds, which in turn will translate those instructions and forward them along to the nearest paper tarnisher. We say nearest, presuming that's what you'd want, but the big deal here is that you'll be able to use any device to print on any printer anywhere in the internet-connected world.
via Google Cloud Print service aims for unified, universal web printing method — Engadget.
Vimium is a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor.
via Vimium – the hacker’s browser.
A number of exciting new features have been added to the Web Inspector since our last update. This time, we’ve got three new panels to present: a Timeline, Audits and Dedicated Console.
via Surfin’ Safari – Blog Archive » More Web Inspector Updates.
The company [Google] is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said. And with that release, Mozilla — maker of the Firefox browser — and Google Chrome are expected to also announce support for HTML5 video playback using the new open codec.
via Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video.
So today we're posting the “iPhone Developer Program License Agreement”—the contract that every developer who writes software for the iTunes App Store must “sign.” Though more than 100,000 app developers have clicked “I agree,” public copies of the agreement are scarce, perhaps thanks to the prohibition on making any “public statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties without Apple's express prior written approval.” But when we saw the NASA App for iPhone, we used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to ask NASA for a copy, so that the general public could see what rules conrolled the technology they could use with their phones. NASA responded with the Rev. 3-17-09 version of the agreement
http://www.eff.org/files/20100302_iphone_dev_agr.pdf
It is codenamed “half-way to world domination A.K.A. the belligerent blue bike shed” to give an idea where we stand in the grand scheme of things and to commemorate the many fruitful discussions we had during its development.
Link: FFmpeg 0.5 Released
I’m not sure if I like the sound of this…
I sure hope Google can change the sad state of internet acces speed and connectivity here in the US. Our current regime of ISPs just aint getting the job done (IMHO).
Official Google Blog: Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network.
Check out this example in a new window. Its a basic REST api using GET parameters, so the URL looks like this:
http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=hello+there,+I+am+an+example+of+the+google+text+to+speech+service
Sounds like translation text is limited to 100 charters. Can’t wait until google officially supports this.
The Unofficial Google Text-To-Speech API .
