Milo Medin of Google:
It’s easy to forget how revolutionary high-speed Internet access was in the 1990s. Not only did broadband kill the screeching sound of dial-up, it also spurred innovation, helping to create amazing new services as well as new job opportunities for many thousands of Americans. But today the Internet is not as fast as it should be. While high speed technology exists, the average Internet speed in the U.S. is still only 5.8 megabits per second (Mbps)—slightly faster than the maximum speed available 16 years ago when residential broadband was first introduced.
Google has just started offering Kansas City residents their Fiber service with 1,000 Mbps download and upload speeds. Yes, you read that correctly.
And: no bandwidth caps. Boom.
It’s -per-month, which is about what I pay Comcast for my shitty 10 Mbps service (which it never actually hits — and has a cap). Google also includes 1 TB of storage with this fee (via Google Drive).
Or you can pay -per-month and get TV service as well. With a 2 TB DVR. And a Nexus 7 to control the set top box.
If you’re not ready for Gigabit Internet, you can settle for 5 Mbps service. Why the hell would you do that? Well, it’s free (with a one-time set up fee). Yep, Google is giving away the service I pay Comcast an obscene amount of money for.
Amazing. Bravo, Google. Now please bring this everywhere in the U.S. and force the cable companies to get busy innovating or get busy dying.
Great initiative by Google.
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100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos mission. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist’s rendition based on NGC 1232, a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way.
I FOUND YOU! You i-forgot-where-i-saved-bookmarked-posted-you link. (though I had to reblog it again, cuz tumblr wont let me reblog myself and post it on the same blog it was originally reblogged but whatever..)
I remembered this by the Google jammer I posted lastly that it would be awesome to jam the two jammers together (lol) so we would have vocals for the instruments.
Try it out its incredible! :D Here’s link to Google JAM again..
Oh yeah a side note (two, actually) Google JAM doesn’t play when the tab is not in focus, and it is an experiment that should only work on chrome.
Someone jam with me! :D
I’m still having a hard time believing it took them this long to realize how ugly their design is..
Now this is interesting. Looking forward to see what the girly side of the motherboard looks like :) lol srsly, Google is starting to be more and more intriguing to me.
