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Google Engineer Who Posted the Infamous Platform Rant: Laughed At, But Still Employed
Last week, Google engineer Steve Yegge mistakenly posted a rant about his life at Amazon and how his currently employer Google doesn’t get platforms. He quickly made that post private again, but as is common on today’s Internet, it was already going viral. Today, Yegge followed up with a slightly shorter and more focused rant about Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos. More importantly, though, he also notes that he is still employed at Google (though people “laughed at [him] a lot] and stresses that his post and the subsequent outfall were neither faked nor staged.
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Major Gmail Update Coming Soon: New Look With Better Search and Updated Conversation View
A few months ago, Google launched a preview of a new look for Gmail that is more in line with the general redesign of all of Google’s [...]
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Google Reader: It’s Still Alive and Getting a Facelift, But Will Lose its Social Features
Google Reader, the company’s popular feed reader, long looked like the forgotten stepchild of Google+ and other more recent products at Google. As the company continued to update the look and feel of many of its products in the last few months, Reader looked like it would be left behind. Today, however, Google announced that Reader will soon get a facelift as well. At the same time, though, it looks as if Reader will also lose some features, as Google is moving all of its social efforts to Google+.
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Upstart Search Engine DuckDuckGo Gets Prominent Placement in Opera Browser
Two of my favorite tech underdogs, the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo and the desktop version of Opera’s browser, have finally banded together. While most browsers only feature the most popular search engines in their default search engine list, Opera’s latest release now also includes DuckDuckGo as an option next to Google, Bing and Yahoo.
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Smoke Signal: Smart Gmail Hack Lets Your Contacts Know How Full Your Inbox Is Right Now
Email can be a blessing and a curse. For those of us who get a lot of messages every day, it’s often the latter, as keeping up [...]
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