Jake Spurlock

Tag: Google

  • Introducing Tab Cleaner – Automatic Tab Management for Chrome

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    I’m excited to announce the launch of Tab Cleaner, a Chrome extension that automatically closes inactive tabs to keep your browser fast, organized, and clutter-free. The Problem with Too Many Tabs We’ve all been there – you start your day with a few browser tabs, and by afternoon you have 50+ tabs open across multiple…

  • In Head?Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal

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    So many good things about hiring and personnel in this article with  Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google. Q.Other insights from the data you’ve gathered about Google employees? A. One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are…

  • Google Glass, Hands On

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    From Maker Faire, I gave a presentation about Google Glass, notably what it does, and how developers/makers can interface with the device. It went over so well, the presentation was repeated the next day for another full house. http://www.slideshare.net/whyisjake/google-glass-23158435

  • What’s Inside Google Glass?

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    What’s Inside Google Glass? Google’s latest and hottest gadget needs little introduction. Since its public unveiling in April 2012, the tiny head-mounted Android computer has been collecting controversy and sociological analysis. It is currently available in limited beta to eminent members of the tech community and to a selection of “Glass Explorers”. As members of the latter program,…

  • Google Glass, Bootstrap, and more…

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    From the aforementioned post, there is a video up now of my smiling face talking about my Bootstrap book, Google Glass and Maker Faire. I’m kind of a total cheeseball, but my wife/kids/mom like me so it works out. 🙂 https://twitter.com/GingerBWorthing/status/339855239547060224

  • Could Google Glass Secure Better Services in the Future? #fluentconf

    Could Google Glass Secure Better Services in the Future? #fluentconf

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    Could Google Glass Secure Better Services in the Future? #fluentconf This is kind of a random article that went up after doing an interview with Silicon Garage today at Fluent. I’m wondering if they have some kind of article generation service that writes the content while watching the video. Anyways, more press!

  • Google Glass Photographer

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    Presented without comment.

  • Glass Questions

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    Glass Questions Do They Meet a Need? Seems pretty ob­vi­ous to me; I’m damn sick of haul­ing out my mo­bile to find out what time it is, or to check on my next meet­ing, or to glance at a map, or to snap a quick photo of an in­ter­est­ing street­light or what­ever. Will They Suc­ceed?…

  • I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates

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    But I walked away convinced that this wasn’t just one of Google’s weird flights of fancy. The more I used Glass the more it made sense to me; the more I wanted it. If the team had told me I could sign up to have my current glasses augmented with Glass technology, I would have…

  • ‘Misdirection, Doublespeak, Non-Answers, and Straight Up Bad Decisions’

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    They have really great projects that they start, but they seem to lack on idea of what the use case is, or the follow through needed to make them a success. Search+ seems like one of those things that the engineers pushed through without thinking about the ramifications. I would argue that this was a…