The Google/China hacking case: How many news outlets do the original reporting on a big story? » Nieman Journalism Lab. barely any is the answer. also, this is a great blog about the state of journalism. via ram.

Rebecca MacKinnon: Google Gets On the Right Side of History – WSJ.com.

Official Google Blog: A new approach to China. some crazy china news.

mkelly12’s google_closure_compiler – GitHub. rails plugin for optimizing your javascript.

Google Search Stories. ads for google search. some good ones in there.

YouTube – The Go Programming Language. Good intro video (hour long) by Rob Pike about a new system language, Go, being developed at Google.

Google to Buy AdMob for $750 Million – NYTimes.com. kinda surprised by this since google had a decent competing ad toolset. i wonder how much revenue/traffic admob actually had?

YouTube – Google Maps Navigation (Beta). those are some pretty cool features. Garmin’s stock took a 20% hit for the trouble.

John Resig – Google Groups is Dead. not actually, but arguably dead due to such poor spam filtering. just seem stupid to me since gmail spam filtering is pretty great. via ram.

Google Street View goes live in Toronto – thestar.com. cool.

Detecting Google Chrome Frame. how to detect google chrome frame in IE by user string or javascript.

Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome. it’s an IE plugin that makes IE seamlessly render everything via Google’s web browser. what a total “fuck you” to Microsoft. i really hope this actually works as presented.

YouTube – Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009. that’s a pretty impressive demo. the instant word-by-word messenger with translation is kinda nuts.

Official Gmail Blog: A new mobile Gmail experience for iPhone and Android. some nice little features including using local storage for archiving, etc.

GrandCentral To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good. . grand central was pretty cool. too bad i don’t have a US phone number any more.

Google’s chief economist on the economic implications of technology. some great comments in the article. “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

Pinch Media » mobile analytics / iPhone analytics / smartphone application analytics. basically google analytics (plus an ad network) for iphone apps.

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google. lots of iconic photos to be found.

Apple Updates iPhone Firmware with v2.2 – Gadgetwise Blog. when i saw the google streetview in use I literally yelled “holy shit”. streaming podcasts through iTunes is nice too.

Meet Inbetween Us. Google maps mashup to find the “middle” of where people are. I actually just used this to figure out where a group of 6 people should meet.