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Thursday, 26th May 2011

Google Announces APIs Scheduled for Shutdown

Google made a number of API-related announcements at Google I/O earlier this month, including a new Books API, an API discovery service, and a more widely available Places API. But as the list of Google's APIs continues to grow, there are some older APIs that are, in Google's own words, no longer "receiving the necessary love."

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Google Scribe Updated, But Automatic Text Completion Still More Fun Than Functional

When Google released Google Scribe, ReadWriteWeb's Mike Melanson called the text completion tool "Mad Libs-esque," noting the possibilities not just for keystroke-savings but for some good laughs as well. The tool works much like Google Suggest, auto-completing as you type. Although Google Scribe promises to save you time and make writing…

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Google to Street View India

Google is bringing Street View to India, an ambitious plan to collect visual data on the vast sub-continent. The project started in Bangalore and will move through the country the way it has done with 25 other countries since 2007. Google will also try to avoid the same problems that have plagued Street View data collection in other countries…

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The Internet of Elsewhere

The tendency to map our world with our own country or region front and center is well documented and reasonably well-understood, at least intellectually. When someone from America sees a map with, say, Peru in the middle, with south in the up position, it still creates some dissonance. But that dissonance can be useful, beyond simply disabusing…

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Sponsor Post: 3 Reasons Why DevOps and the Cloud are Perfect for Business Success

Editor's note: We offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write posts and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products. Night and day. Science…

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