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Google Services. What’s that?

A 40-minute video preview of Office 12. I don’t normally watch videos this long. But it was worth it.

Office 12 has a REALLY different user interface (critique). It’s also supposed to have a lot of new features.

What struck me the most in the video is how Powerpoint creates diagrams. You type text, and Powerpoint can automatically convert that into value chains, org charts, etc. Julie mentions that a blind user was able to create graphics using this feature, and that this was the first time she has been able to create graphics in all her life!

YubNub is a web command line. A starting point for a Web OS, as Jon Aquino suggests. via eHub

Google Blogsearch.

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes will be released. (I’ve transcribed the quotes.)

Technorati Blogfinder tags blogs.

TechCrunch. A weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service

BBC seems to be doing good work for developers at BBC Backstage. Tom Coates and Matt Biddulph are among those involved.

How to turn text lists into structured maps using the Web.

I just realised. Google Desktop Search is a HTTP server that works on port 4664. 4664 is what you need to type on a phone to spell “GOOG”. Incidentally, Google SMS requires you to send messages to GOOGL (46645).