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- Weekend Reading: Honeycode, Imagery for Utilities, and BigQuery in Google Sheets
🍯 Amazon Honeycode AWS is making its entrance into the low-code app platform space. 🌲 Using satellite imagery to prioritize vegetation management for utilities Geoff Zeiss on combining satellite imagery and spatial…
- Stadia
I enabled a trial of Google's Stadia gaming service yesterday to kick the tires. In Google fashion, their entry into the gaming market isn't centered around consoles and hardware, but cloud-distributed streaming. Duri…
- Google Maps at 15
Google Maps just had its 15th birthday. This post from one of the original team on Maps back in 2005, Elizabeth Reid, reflects on a history of the product from its first iteration. On Feb 8, 2005, Google Maps was firs…
- How Google Designed the Stadia Controller
This is a neat piece showing some of the process and iteration behind the Google design team's work on the controller for their new gaming service, Stadia. Olsson says the team went through “hundreds” of prototypes, s…
- Weekend Reading: Intellectual Humility, Scoping, and Gboard
🛤 Missing the Light at the End of the Tunnel Honest postmortems are insightful to get the inside backstory on what happened behind the scenes with a company. In this one, Jason Crawford goes into what went wrong with…
- The Bing of Maps
At the recent WWDC, Apple announced an overhaul to their Maps product, including millions of miles of fresh data from their vehicle fleet, along with a new Street View-like feature called “Look Around”. Even though it…
- How Google Sets Goals
I’ve been thinking and reading more about OKRs and how I might be able to implement them effectively — both professionally and personally. The idea of having clearly defined goals over bounded timelines is something w…
- Weekly Links: Tensor Processing, Amazon, and Preventing Traffic Jams
Google's "Tensor Processing Unit" 💻 Google has built their own custom silicon dedicated to AI processing. The power efficiency gains with these dedicated chips is estimated to have saved them from building a dozen ne…