Web Two > Why Google Is Going to Get There First

[Crossroads Dispatches] Read on for yourself (they're notes, but hopefully you can glean enough from them.) Another tidbit useful for startups: Free pizza and lots of observation of Stanford students using Google without instruction were involved in early user studies.)

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[Softtechvc.blogs.com] Software Only: Mark Fletcher is on another panel and shares that Bloglines has doubled its user base in six months, and tripled the number of blogs covered, sucking in 2.8M posts yesterday. He explains that the architecture they had originally built did not scale to these kinds of numbers, and sort of hints that they are re-architecting - which explains why no new functionality has been seen for a while now.

Googlemapsmania.blogspot.comhttp://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com [Googlemapsmania.blogspot.com] Google Maps Mania: Trulia - New Google Maps real estate mashup: . Trulia appears to be working more closely with agents, and so pulling in housing information from real estate sites, as opposed to Craigslist listings. Right now, it provides only California listings, whereas HousingMaps has the whole country. Trulia, started by some Stanford students, is based in San Francisco and San Mateo. It has some fun searches like "

Dev.upian.com[Dev.upian.com] Hot Links - Archives: Andy Baio : Video: Charade, full-length film from 1963 - Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn thriller slipped into public domain because of a clerical error  [via]

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