This video shows a user interface being bucket tested by Google to select (probably randomly determined) users. (recorded by Adrian Pike, CTO of Tatango).

Users vote search results up or down – a down vote makes it disappear with a “poof,” an up vote moves the result to the first page.

Google is also testing comments, with linked user names, and others can vote those comments up and down. In effect, this test shows a Google that combines their search algorithm with every important feature of Digg.
It’s something they’ve been working on for nearly a year in various iterations.

In near future they will add it to their Google Search experimental site, so we all can test it.

It is quite clear, that Google will add social search feature to their more and more spam-overwhelming crawling search result to optimize search results by user recommendation.

I think, Google will try to be a social search provider, but is Google really trustworthy to compete with the viral efficiency of independent services like StumbleUpon or Digg.

Apple earned last weekend with iPhone 3G sales an estimated $330 million in profits over three days.

Is there too much hype with the iPhone? People need to get back to real life?
Has anybody counted how many blog entries to IPhone were created in the last 7 days ?
Twitter seems to be flooded with IPhone tweets.

Back to the real life: we love our IPhone 1.0 with good well-done metallic case.

There were impressive stats one Iphone tweets in comparison to Nokia and Blackberry on Twist – see trends in twitter:

Friday, 11 July 2008, weekly

Friday, 11 July 2008, monthly

Mr. Doepfner, CEO of Axel Springer tells people to have more fun at work with Apple. Every company should know what people love and everybody knows: working with a mac and its software is really fun!

see Mathias Doepfner’s video message at YouTube

video summary:

- dear employees:
.. i present you an it decision
.. all workstations will be migrated to Apple
.. AxelSpringer will be the largest Apple customer in Europe
.. AxelSpringer will be the second largest Apple customer worldwide after Google
.. what you see is what you get
.. Apple produce the most beautiful products
.. your desk will look better with an Apple product on it
.. enjoy every new morning with your new Apple product
.. better prices for our company
.. advantages for you, somebody of you will need to learn the new usability
.. it is not only an IT decision, it forces cultural change of our company
.. you will have more fun at your work!

offtopic: Axel Springer launches a new homepage design today, unfortunately i cannot view all their homepage data