nerdiness devours me

The Prediction API enables access to Google’s machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes.

Google has been working with a number of talented font designers to produce a varied collection of high quality open source fonts for the Google Font Directory. With the Google Font API, using these fonts on your web page is almost as easy as using the standard set of so-called “web-safe” fonts that come installed on most computers.

Check out some of the best Google products for developing, analyzing, maintaining and tinkering with websites.

I didn’t realize some of these tools in this article even existed.

nerdology:

Wow.

nothing more to add, a courageous step in the right direction.

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Web applications have evolved from simple HTML pages into rich, interactive applications that provide a great user experience. Today’s web apps pose a challenge for developers, however: how do you create and maintain efficient JavaScript code that downloads quickly and works across different browsers?

The Closure tools help developers to build rich web applications with JavaScript that is both powerful and efficient.

People hate IE6; they’ve made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing something about it.

Ok so what exactly Google Wave is can be confusing, because there are three parts:  the protocol, the server, and the client.  A lot of people are really going to miss the boat here if they don’t keep the distinction between the three in mind, because I see a lot of people focusing on the wrong parts.