Very interesting to follow the design iterations and thoughts behind the creation of the Google logo. Still, while I think it works from the perspective that it’s recognizable and friendly, it’s still pretty ugly. The typeface itself - Catull - looks like a crappy throwaway font you can get for free somewhere.
Let me get on that narcissistic tip right quick: I’ve climbed to the top of my ego search, coming in at Numero Uno when searching for my name:
Believe it or not, there are actually plenty of other Lee Clemmer’s out there (which I’m not sure how to feel about… isn’t that a bit odd?). Suffice it to say, I’m the top Lee Clemmer dog. Respek’!
I stumbled across this video featuring a Google engineer talking about a pure JavaScript solution for communicating information between domains within the IE and Firefox security models (using nested iframes). I haven’t delved deeply into this topic just yet, but I’m thinking that this coupled with Google’s newly released OpenSocial could pave the way for platform independent social media. Could I set up a page on this blog, for example, that when I update it I also automatically update all of my accounts with various social networks? I don’t know, but I will try.
The video mentions a “subspace paper” that describes a similar technique. After a bit of google-fu I’ve located the paper (but haven’t read it yet): “Subspace: Secure Cross-Domain Communication for Web Mashups” (PDF).
UPDATE: Here’s the Techcrunch write-up on Open Social. This will be yet another mini-goldrush.
Excellent post by the Ning guy about Open Social, the impending open api format for social app developers. Although this is nice for developers, I still want to see an open format for my social data itself; I’m lazy and would ideally belong to any number of networks but only have to input my data once. Although Open Social will be a step in the right direction, I wonder what kind of impediment the absence of MySpace and Facebook is going to be, as they are still the largest networks.