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Google has turned on street view for Hong Kong. Above is The Peninsula from street view. I guess Shanghai will have to wait a little bit longer. Where "little bit" tends towards infinity.

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Well this is all over the blogs this morning. Google's reviewing its China ops and will stop censoring google.cn search results - announced on the official Google blog, which is on blogspot, which is blocked in China...

To summarise Google is threating to throw the toys out of the pram. And to take its ball and go home. And to tell teacher.

Here's what I've learned: the path to change lies in inclusion not exclusion.

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Now here's something you don't see every day: an alphabet made from Google Earth photos of The Netherlands.

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Today's Google China homepage celebrates Confucius birthday. BTW: The China page has animation on it - those little blobs below the search box. Which, compared to the US version, is quite racy.

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There's an old Northern English saying "All mouth and trousers". Which means "Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance."

So The Guge have announced ChromeOS and they keep yacking on about the "operating system". Spin! It's not an operating system. It's Yet Another Linux Distro (YALD). Linux is an operating system. A distro is a collection of packages making a platform on which you can do stuff. BTW: Android is also YALD.

They say it's a "lightweight operating system". They mean it's a lightweight distro. As if there is notenough of those…

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Google Apps is a marv thing. And free too. Since looping our email through Google we’ve been getting much less spam. But I’ve noticed the following quirks:

1. smtp.gmail.com is clever about the From field. The user I authenticate as is the one that shows up in the From field when the message is received. So even if I set the From field to be info@..., if I login as simonb@… The receiver sees email From simonb@… Once you’ve authenticated most services let you set the From field to whatever you like.

2. Mail from me to…

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