This latest post is some sketching for a longer riff I’m eager to dig into. I love the fact that I can do sketch out loud thanks to American Express. Here’s the first few grafs: Over the past several posts I’ve been talking about the role of search, conversation,…

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Brady reprises the Google Alphabet (the first word auto-populated by the newly integrated Google Suggest for each letter in the alphabet)….

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Friday linkday: Via Churbuck, a nice walkthrough of how to use Google search tools to understand site acquisition and traffic patterns. As long as we’re in a learning mode, here’s a post on using FriendFeed as a business tool. The IE8 beta is out. I need to grok this….

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Why launch Chrome (Google’s new “browser”) when Firefox, Google’s favored son, is doing so well? Because Google needs its own. Using a comic book to introduce it is fun, and certainly, there’s always room for new approaches to platform and interface, and Chrome looks to have a lot of…

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I was wondering what data was sent to Google from Chrome users. Matt has the answers, and so far, seems innocuous….

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An Anthropology of Google’s Search Experiments (with all data exposed, of course). Never will happen, but we get some tantalizing hints in this post on the Google blog: At any given time, we run anywhere from 50 to 200 experiments on Google sites all over the world. I’ll start…

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Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is…

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Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is…

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(photo Jeff Kravitz) I have to ask. After seeing them live, I have to wonder. They did rip my head off, as did Metallica at Bonnaroo. They have this way of being both ridiculously tight, as well as totally psychedelic. Not easy to pull off. What do you all…

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I hear you all. What is Battelle on about, all this music stuff, all this non search stuff? I am sorry, but you have to trust me, it’s going somewhere. I’m following a hunch, of a sorts. Today some bankers from Piper Jaffrey came by, and they asked me…

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Here’s the streaming output of CrowdFire: You can grab your own here. AFP coverage here….

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Google launches Ad Manager to the public and Google Suggest. Meanwhile, Street View keeps pushing the big question in our society: Where do we end and the public begins?…

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CrowdFire was consuming. It will take me some time to get back in the groove. I have to say, I’m really, really floored by what our teams did on site at Outside Lands, and what CrowdFire has the potential to be. Check it out, here. And here’s my shooting,…

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I will be at the festival today, helping to light the CrowdFire. So stoked….

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I am a fan of PhotoSynth. I hope Microsoft gets some traction with this. Brady’s take here. My earlier coverage….

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