Google loves April 1, otherwise known as April Fool's Day, so we're dedicating this entire edition of Googleholic to Google news/hoaxes/jokes centered around April 1. This edition covers: Google's April 1, 2008 pranks Google pranks go International GMail turns 4 -- AKA, the hoax that wasn't A look back at some of our favorite "April 1 Google hoaxes"

Google's free e-mail service, Gmail , which will offer significantly more storage than Yahoo or MSN, "is not a hoax," said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's vice president of products

I didn't find any of my friends using this, but I did find an old account of my own that I had completely forgotten about. For a split second I was like, "how did this person find all those photos of me???" Lol.

Any thoughts on the privacy issue I raised above? Revealing information about users shouldn't be something a user has to opt out of. For example some people may not want their co-workers or potential employers to know that they have a flickr account. They should have to opt in instead of opt out. I think this could get ugly for some people who don't want to be found. Also the setting for opting out should be changed. I may want to be found by my flickr buddy name, but just not by the new email address way. There should be a way to leave things the same way they were before. Now I can only opt out of everything or opt in for everything.

Proggie: Privacy is something we take very seriously at Flickr. People have actually always been searchable by email address on Flickr (via "People Search"), and we chose to respect our member's existing people search preference settings (as well as make that preference page easier to find). On the opt-out versus opt-in issue, this is something where we carefully weighed the options, and chose the default option based on what we feel would have the greatest benefit for the majority of our members. Just as we chose to make "public" the default for uploaded photos, we chose to preserve opt-out as the default for people search on Flickr.

Flickr is more fun with friends, but it is a big busy place, and sometimes it can be hard to find the people you know. The new Find Your Friends feature can help with that. If you have a Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, or Microsoft Live Hotmail account we can look for people in your address book who are already using Flickr. Then you can add them as a Flickr contact. How neat is that?

当你觉得你想做什么的时候，有任何人组织你吗？当你觉得没有任何一个社团适合你的时候，有人告诉你说不可以自己开创一个社团吗？等等，你和未来没有隔什么东西，唯一隔的就是你自己对自己设的限。

我們，是一群大學時代同窗的好友，在我們的時代，部落格只是一個尚未流行的概念。畢業數年後，我們也各自踏上了截然不同的旅程，在網路走入了Web 2.0的同時，有的人深入了資訊界，有的人到了矽谷，有的人到了紐約，也有的人在世界各地不斷奔走，我們的腳步，踏遍了半個地球。今天，透過網路和部落格，我們再度相聚，在廣大的網路世界，開闢這樣一個小小的天地，以Mr./Ms. Days為名，希望每天都能夠跟大家分享我們的所見所聞。 謝謝您的造訪，希望您喜歡我們的文章，更期待能夠看到您對於文章的迴響與指教。 Mr. Monday 主要文章內容 : 生活勵志, 網路科技新奇事物 Mr. Tuesday 主要文章內容 : 電影評析 Mr. Wednesday 主要文章內容 : 網路搜尋引擎, 社交網路 Mr. Thursday 主要文章內容 : 生物資訊科技, 機器學習 Mr. Friday 主要文章內容 : 網路生活, P2P技術相關 Mr. Saturday 主要文章內容 : 網路企業, 人工智慧相關 Mr. Sunday 主要文章內容 : 資訊新知分析

Skype這個字後半的讀音與Type一樣，用KK音標表示的話就是[skaip]，由讀音直翻則為”屎蓋埔”，屎這個字的雅稱是黃金，而埔就是土地的意思，所以”屎蓋埔”代表Skype造成“遍地有黃金”的效應，以往一字千金的長途電話費現在變成完全免費。Skype還真的是造福萬千對遠距戀愛的情侶，在商場上也是幫公司行號省下大把銀子，所以為了感激Skype的貢獻，麻煩大家以後發音務求正確，讓我們一起宣傳”屎蓋埔“的發音而讓遍地灑滿黃金吧！

[杨勃]另外，每个人都是不同的，我们崇尚多样化，我们的网站要围绕个人为他们提供服务。有很多东西能够从个体中提炼出来，反过来对所有用户有用。比如豆瓣网的推荐，我们用所有人喜欢的东西收集成数据，向每个用户推荐。我们没有自己的编辑，我们通过很多算法把一些有价值的信息从用户中获取，再返到用户中，使用户觉得对他们是最有用的东西，是所谓的大众的智慧，我们觉得非常有价值。　[ 2006-11-07 10:32:00 ]

[主持人]有网友问：还记得第一个用户浏览豆瓣网的情形吗？　[ 2006-11-07 10:37:35 ] [杨勃]其实第一个用户来了以后再也没有回来过？　[ 2006-11-07 10:38:16 ] [主持人]属于误打误撞进来的？　[ 2006-11-07 10:38:33 ] [杨勃]最初我们没有宣传，最出的用户是我的一些朋友、同事，我请他们过来试试这个网站，同时也通过试用调试一些问题。当时有一个我完全不认识的人进来注册，进来看看就走了，我很开心，因为这是我真正的用户，但可惜他后来没有再来。　[ 2006-11-07 10:38:53 ] [杨勃]我最早在一个技术论坛告诉大家有一个豆瓣网，请大家来看看，第一批用户接连就过来，因为感觉豆瓣网技术上可能还存在一些问题。第二天就有用户进来并且反映用的很好，并且开始写评论，你写一篇，我写一篇，并且开始留言，网站就开始用起来了。我坐在那里一直看有没有新的评论，很兴奋一直看到天亮。有五个月的时间，只有几个人看这个网站，但突然就成型了，大家开始用起来，这是令我非常兴奋的一件事情。　[ 2006-11-07 10:39:23 ]

关键是豆瓣网网站是否在贡献价值，从我们来说，很多用户上豆瓣网之前说我有两三年时间只是零星买书，自从上豆瓣网，我半年时间就花了两、三千买书，发现了很多好书。这不管对用户还是卖方都是非常有价值的事情

豆瓣的真正主要决定性力量在于两点，我只说其中一点：介于“硬分类”和纯粹tag之间的逻辑结构――从“我注六经”到“六经注我”。在豆瓣之前，BBS的社区也好，门户也好，都是“硬分类”。比如一个典型的BBS被站方少则分成几十个版块，多则上千个版块，这是一种“刚性”的分类和结构，框架住了网站的发展，使得社区要么做不大，要么水化。或者说，web2.0概念以前，国内以BBS为主的社区只能走媒体化的道路，而如果要纯粹做社区，不是某个网站的能力问题，而是“硬分类”的逻辑架构“框死”限制了他们的发展。严格说来，在web2.0概念以前，国内没有真正的大型社区。而tag的出现，以及以此为逻辑结构的网站，比如flickr的发展，为国内社区网站带来了曙光－－Tag是一个用户自组织的“软分类”概念，它几乎无限延展，使得社区也存在了无限拓展的可能。但是，慢着，tag也有其最致命的问题。比如我现在的logo图片，你可以tag为“优伴猫粮”、“猫”、“加菲猫”或者“休闲”等等，没有统一标准－－tag扩展是扩展了，但是又过于去中心化，缺乏了讨论的基础。而豆瓣的力量即在于此。豆瓣没有硬分类的“狭隘的刚性”，也没有tag的“无法讨论的发散”，豆瓣在硬分类和tag之间寻找到了一个平衡点――书目数据库。因为一本书你再怎么给它标签，它的书名也是固定的。而围绕着书目数据库而展开讨论，就是豆瓣从另外一个角度组织了信息。

有些人在豆瓣所列出的清单未必是完全真实的，有时会有浮夸的成分，但是即使是虚假的清单，把什么样的书、电影或音乐列为自己的兴趣，也往往是出于人们对自我形象塑造的需求。

it could pave the way to some interesting models on how the intranet is now in public.

LinkedIn should consider a feature similar to Facebook where you can remove certain news events from your public time-line. I don’t think LinkedIn wants to create an environment where companies have to go around the system to recruit the most contested applicants.

Company Profiles are literally profiles for companies. From an engineering perspective, we started with a relatively simple prototype of recent promotions and hires, iterated and created static pages for several companies. We then launched our company standardization project, played with massive amounts of statistical data, improved our search engine, added analytical data platform, ran a whole bunch of SQL scripts and implemented several designs of a page - Phew!

从一个手工书的计划，到一个被全球手工创作人关注的flickr group，这一切，仍然很渺小，不伟大，但却给我力量。

On my last day in Beijing, I was having breakfast and perusing China Daily, an English-language newspaper, when I came upon a full-page ad that captured succinctly – better than any economist’s speech could – two of the most powerful signs of China’s emerging economic growth. The photo in the ad was one of the many spectacular skyscrapers rising up across Beijing as far as the eye can see. The copy, brilliant in its simplicity, read, “Believe in the power of brands.”

突然想到开始一个系列的讨论，作为网络行业相关工作者，想比大家经常使用很多的网络工具进行工作、学习和交际。优秀的网络工具在概念设计、功能构思、用户界面和品牌行销上有很多独到之处。 思考这些网络工具如何成长，相信也是网络工作者学习中的重要内容。所以，“Web设计小组”现在开始一个系列讨论，看看大家在平时是如何使用这些网络工具。

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