Google has just released an open source cryptographic toolkit: Keyczar. The company is aiming to make inherently complex cryptography easier and safer for developers to implement. In addition to the Google Code page where you can get the toolkit, there is this information page, and a link to a discussion group. Keyczar is released under [...]

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YouTube is clearly trying to clean up in light of the Viacom lawsuit, ironing out any potential issues over copyright theft. But high profile YouTube posters such as Loic Lemeur and Chris Crocker are being dragged in to the mess, potentially causing more harm to the site than good.

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The makers of the Cuil search engine say it should provide better results and show them in a more attractive manner.

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Viacom wants to know which videos YouTube employees have watched and uploaded to the site, and Google is refusing to provide that information, CNET News has learned.
This dispute is the reason the two companies, and lawyers representing a group of other copyright holders suing Google, have failed to reach a final agreement on anonymizing personal [...]

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I’m sure everyone already knows about this, but you might have forgot or recently overlooked this “feature.”
Long story short: username@gmail.com = user.name@gmail.com = us.er.na.me@gmail.com = username+junk@gmail.com = u.s.ername+ballsack@gmail.com …et cetera.
Very useful for when you sign up on various sites. You can use different e-mail aliases and then know and filter all the garbage they might [...]

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Starting from today, Google shows real-time price data for all NASDAQ stocks, informs Google Finance Blog. Google partnered with CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Xignite and managed to convince NASDAQ that providing free access to real-time stock data is the right thing to do. “With universal access to the Internet and the real-time nature of the [...]

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The first thing I typed was
uname -a

and I didn’t know what to expect…

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Finally a clean-room implementation of Google’s Page Rank Algorithm in Java, reverse-engineered from their numerous commentary on Page Rank.
public static int getPageRank(url) {
// start off with a random low PR
int pageRank = rand.getInt(0, 3);
if ( isHostedOn(’google.com’, url) ) {
pageRank++;
} else if ( isHostedOn(’microsoft.com’, url) ) {
pageRank–;
}
// Support valid pages
if (isValidPage(url) ) [...]

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When my mom was battling cancer, she decided to seek additional input from a cancer center miles away. She went to her oncologist to collect her medical records, only to discover they were stored in several different places.
My mom was weak and sick from chemotherapy, yet she traipsed from hospital to hospital to collect medical [...]

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Google’s terms of service, while ignored by the vast majority of users, contain a pretty shocking clause: Under 18’s are not permitted to use any of Google’s Web properties. That’s right, kids–no search, YouTube, Gmail, news, or images.
Under 18s wishing to watch YouTube videos of skateboarding dogs, or perform research for a school project will [...]

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When I’m programming and i need to view variable values in a program, I usually use a debugger - looks like I’ve missed out on the new-age-fangled approach where you code it so the values you are interested in get emailed to your gmail account. ugh…
What happened with G-Archiver?
It has come to our attention that [...]

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Are you happy with the results people get back when they Google your name? If not, there are easy ways to monitor and guide what information is published about you online. Two years ago Lifehacker.com covered how to have a say in what Google says about you, and more recently, and how to track down [...]

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The Digital Inspiration blog points out a Gmail trick that’s been just under the surface all along. Everyone who has an “name@gmail.com” address can also receive mail sent to “name@googlemail.com.” What’s the big deal? Well, knowing this gives you a stronger hand when you fight against spam, bacn, and all that other not-so-important but distracting [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) – Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that’s likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
The pilot project to be announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients [...]

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Queue the gasp! Google is out to get you!

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