I just started blogging. I am not sure what I want to write about, but I think one theme will be "things I want but want someone else to build." This article describes one of those things. At Google, I worked on a number of projects that required data from third party data sources. We licensed mapping data for 100s of countries for Google Maps, movie showtimes data for Google Movies, and stock dat
Google has confirmed restrictions on its Gemini chatbot in relation to responses to queries on crucial general elections to take place this year, including the race for the White House. The Alphabet-owned company is taking steps to control the dissemination of misinformation (and to prevent it as much as possible) by limiting the output of…
Dutch filmmaker IJsbrand van Veelen stirred a lot of controversy last week at the Next Web conference when he premiered the documentary above, The Truth About Wikipedia. It has now been posted to YouTube and is worth watching when you have a spare 45 minutes. The film pits Andrew Keen, the disapproving author of The Culture of the Amateur, and Bob McHenry, former editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedi
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Emotions are as much a product of our evolutionary heritage as they are our environmental circumstances The next time you come face to face with a dog wagging its tail, you can make a quick determination on whether to reach out and pet it or step back in deference: check the tail-wag bias. If the wagging tail leans to the dog’s right, you’re safe; if the tail leans to the dog’s left, don’t move. T
Last night at a Campfire One event at Google headquarters in Mountain View, a new service was announced called Google App Engine. Aimed almost squarely at the loosely-coupled Amazon Web Services, Google is betting that developers and startups will opt to host their applications in Google's cloud, taking advantage of Google APIs, and leveraging the nearly unlimited processing power and storage capa
Alligator Blood May Lead to Powerful New AntibioticsAmerican alligator blood can destroy multiple strains of bacteria, including those resistant to antibiotics. Alligators often engage in violent fights over territories and mates, and scientists have puzzled over why their wounds rarely get infected. Now researchers think the secret lies in the reptiles' blood. Chemists in Louisiana found that blo
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