My OperaGoogle Labs projects to watch out for
Saturday, May 22, 2010 7:02:35 AM
1. Aardvark : Aardvark was acquired by Google. It is a social search engine to find people. Aardvark is a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends. How it works is, send Aardvark a question (from the web, IM, email, Twitter, or iPhone) and you’ll get a response from someone with
- The right knowledge and experience to help.
- Similar tastes.
- Friends in common.
It searches the people from your network to find the right person to answer your query. In doing so, it considers topics related to the person's profile and how you are connected to the person.
2. Public Data Explorer : With Google Public Data Explorer you can explore, visualize and communicate large datasets. As the data changes, so does the charts and maps. You can use the tool to create visualizations of public data, link to them, or embed them in your own webpages. Embedded charts and links can update automatically so you’re always sharing the latest available data.
3. Gesture Search : Gesture Search from Google Labs lets you search your Android-powered device by drawing alphabet gestures on the touch screen. It allows you to quickly find a contact, a bookmark, an application, or a music track from hundreds or thousands of items, all in one place.
Gesture Search currently recognizes the English alphabet and requires Android 1.6 or above.
How to use it? Just write on the touch screen the title of the item you are looking for, e.g., a person's name or the name of a song. You don't need to write the entire word and the search results are continuously updated as you add each letter. Once the target item is shown in the list, just click on the item to bring it up. es.
4. Google Reader - Play : Google Reader Play is a way to browse interesting stuff on the web. It's easy to use - after you've read an item, click the next arrow to move to the next one. If you click the "like" button, it uses that info to show you more stuff that you might like. It includes the most popular items on the web, items that several of your friends have shared and other stuff based on your Reader Play history.
5. Follow Finder : Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow. It generates two lists based on the public social connections on Twitter (follower and following lists):
- Tweeps you might like: It gieves the list of people you follow, find others with similar lists, and then identify accounts you might also want to follow. If people with similar lists tend to follow accounts that aren't in your list, it recommends those additional accounts to you. For example, if you follow CNN and the New York Times on Twitter, and most people who follow CNN and the New York Times also tend to follow TIME, it will suggest TIME as a user to follow.
- Tweeps with similar followers: It finds people with similar public lists of followers to yours. For example, if ten people are following you, and the same ten people are following a second user, it will include the second user in this list. You may already be following some of these people.
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