Chris Hanrath » Google http://blog.chrishanrath.com Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:13:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Larry Page’s Commencement Speech http://blog.chrishanrath.com/2009/05/larry-pages-commencement-speech/ http://blog.chrishanrath.com/2009/05/larry-pages-commencement-speech/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 21:56:05 +0000 Chris http://blog.chrishanrath.com/?p=186 Larry Page’s speech at the University of Michigan graduation ceremony addressing the class of 2009 to “be lazy and get a little crazy“. There is also a transcript available.

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I wonder about the missing thumbnail screenshots, why an icon of a broken camera? Did i break something, or do i have to get my digital camera out and take a picture of each screen so that Google can post it? I am also not sure what the recent bookmarks are, since i don’t bookmark pages or click on bookmarks…

Google Toolbar - New Tab

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Google Gears and WordPress

This made me wonder… what if somebody installed Gears on a public computer that is not protected against such browser plugins or i use someone else’s computer. Will it store confidential or private data about me? Will the Firefox “Clear Private Data” option delete traces of me from this system? Just a thought.

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