WFN #43: Google Goggles
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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Avoid the impulse purchase dilemma with your new HD purchase
- Practical alternatives to the expensive cables from the big box stores.
Google adds two new kinds of search
- Google search, now with social media integration!!!
- Scrolling, real-time results in your Google search results display real-time information
- Google Goggles lets you use a photo to search the net.
Facebook Users too free with their data?
- How careful are you when using FaceBook? Do you accept all of the invitations from friends? Do you know what you are agreeing to? You might be surprised.
Short News
- In the coming weeks, Google plans to send out 100,000 of these stickers, each with their own QR code, to a new demographic of businesses Google is calling “Favorite Places”. These favorites are based on search results from users interacting with local business listings on Google Maps.
- On Sunday, LHC engineers increased the energy of this “pilot beam”, reaching 1.18 trillion electron volts at 2344 GMT.
- The U.S. Air Force is looking to buy 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles.
Nerd App of the Week
- The classic 1983 arcade game Dragon’s Lair (link to AppStore, $4.99 USD) comes to iPhone/iPod Touch. WooHoo! For some background, here is a little history of the classic LaserDisc game.
