Pinboard

What do you love, asks Google with a new portal to its many web services #308 #twig

Better Music Beta is a tool to help get more out of Google Music Beta. It gives you controls to play/pause, skip, reverse, shuffle, and repeat songs in any Chrome window. It also has toast notifications of song change and scrobbling! More to come.

Chief Executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a visit to Facebook's Seattle office on Wednesday that the company planned to "launch something awesome" next week.

Thanks to the unlimited creativity of humans, you can now actually make your Google+ look like Facebook, with the Google+ : Facebook Stylish extension or this CSS code.

For perspective, every day, the world writes the equivalent of a 10 million-page book in Tweets or 8,163 copies of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Reading this much text would take more than 31 years and stacking this many copies of War and Peace would reach the height of about 1,470 feet, nearly the ground-to-roof height of Taiwan’s Taipei 101, the second tallest building in the world.

Today, we learned that Twitter will soon create a site to "offer up as much information as possible to developers and partners." The news seems related. Twitter settled with the FTC in March over allegations of privacy violations.

Citing component industry sources, DigiTimes says a number of Taiwan-based companies that supply Apple with parts for its gadgets have "begun to prepare materials" for the two iOS devices, with production slated to start in September.

Google’s “Pi” In The Face

Sexual Activity Tracked By Fitbit Shows Up In Google Search Results