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09 October 2006

Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan

Making it easier to find relevant text inside books helps sales? Who’d have thunk it?

Google Software Downloads for the Mac

The Long Zoom

Good, long New York Times article about Spore,

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters

Peter Sellers doing various English accents (kottke.org)

Netflix nails it

37 Signals on a few of the ways Netflix gets user experience just right.

05 October 2006

Eight Rooms, Well, Nine, but That's Their Secret

Eight Rooms, Well, Nine, but That’s Their Secret

New York Times on people installing secret rooms in their homes.

Does anyone else find it odd that Google’s suddenly releasing lots of new versions of their ancillary products? First a new Blogger, then a new Google Reader after basically a year with no changes, and today a new Google Groups. It’s like they realized that some of us actually use these things every day.

The new Google Groups is a welcome change. The old layout tried too hard to mimic Gmail’s layout and it felt forced. The new version feels more like a message board, without all the terrible color schemes and huge signature images.