Google’s Global Growing Pains
John Keehler
A great look into the struggles Google faces as it expands across the globe, into different cultures with different governments and different approaches to censorship and privacy.
The Pixel: 1567 – 2008
Brian Kress
Typography guru Jonathan Hoefler briefly reflects on the pixel’s history from sixteenth century lace books to the digital watch and, given the state of the screen, dooms them to serve as an out-of-touch visual cliché to connote “the digital age.”
Facebook Reaches into the Rest of the Web
Brian Kress
Slowly but surely growing its omniscience, Facebook has launched a new feature called “Facebook Connect,” which, in essence, allows its 120 million members to see what their friends are doing on other sites. For example, a person might alert his Facebook friends to the fact that he is watching a video on CBS.com and invite them to join him there to watch together and discuss the video as it plays. Privacy controversy in 3…2…1…
Citysearch Launches Hyper-Social, Hyper-Local, Hyper-Mobile Makeover
Jeff Whang
One of the first sites to adopt “Facebook Connect” mentioned above, Citysearch has launched a beta version: a complete makeover, allowing anyone to submit a review or rating using their Facebook account, going hyper-local by creating 75,000 neighborhoods instead of the old way of dividing their content into 140 or so cities, and taking full advantage of Google’s mobile geo-locating to make the content relevant as soon as you pull up the site.
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