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After Google announced Google Labs would be closing, several experimental products under development were killed. They are world-class, badass industrial designers with Google, Apple, Microsoft, Tellme, and General Magic pedigrees. To help them focus, Google's quietly shuttered a number of products, removing igoogle and Google Reader's social features and closing Google Labs, Buzz, Jaiku and Code Search in the last two weeks alone. In honor of the closing of Google Labs, there is a slideshow of some the greatest hits that have come out of that exciting project. Google on Friday announced that it is scrapping another handful of products as the tech giant continues to trim down its product line and focus more on successes such as Android and Google+. This week on the Gadget Lab Podcast: The gang talks about Nokia’s latest troop deployments in the smartphone battlefield, the Steve Jobs biography, the success of ios 5′s Newsstand app, and a big new update to Google tv set top boxes. This week on the Gadget Lab Podcast: The gang talks about Nokiaâs latest troop deployments in the smartphone battlefield, the Steve Jobs biography, the success of ios 5âs Newsstand app, and a big new update to Google tv set top boxes. “a collective gasp has gone up around the Internet,” noted GigaOm when Google announced it was shutting down Labs, Google’s most creative endeavor which produced a number of quirky products, like Correlate and Image Swirl. Google Plus has added Instagram-like controls to its photo section. Google Apps is winning fans among government agencies. Google also announced it is shutting down some of its other products, such as Code Search, Jaiku, igoogle’s social features, the University Research Program for Google Search and Google Labs. After just an 18-month run, Google has decided to fold Google Buzz, its first attempt to create a social network, along with other products like Jaiku, Code Search and Google Labs. According to tech blogger Medgadget on Tuesday, Google Body Browser, a Google Earth-esque tool for the human anatomy and part of the now-defunct Google Labs project, will be relaunched as a free Android app and web application called Zygote Body. Buzz was a great learning experience, says Google, but in a few weeks it will be shut down and all such efforts will be focused on Google Plus. Google on Friday announced that it will kill off its beleaguered Buzz social-networking product in the next few weeks in order to focus its attention on Google+. With Google Labs shutting down, Google is signaling an end to it’s policy of open-ended innovation, choosing instead to streamline innovation to save their bottom line. Here are the ones that we think are worthy of your attention.
The Nest: A thermostat that’s eager to learn in order to help you save – MiamiHerald.com
MiamiHerald.com
Just in time for the high season of thermostat tweaking comes a nifty, energy-saving household gizmo with some serious tech cred: The Nest Learning Thermostat from Nest Labs, a Silicon Valley startup partially funded by Google Ventures …
8 Cool Google Labs Projects Spared the Axe – CIO
CIO
After Google announced Google Labs would be closing, several experimental products under development were killed. Here's a look at some that were spared from the executioner's axe. By Howard Wen After Google announced in July that Google Labs would be …
Chilean Government Awards Hotel Management Software Team Innovation Grant – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
"Waypoint Labs is working to solve inefficiencies in the travel space that end-up costing companies, and thus travelers, hundreds of millions of dollars every year" said co-founder Thomas Lyle. Waypoint Labs is the name of the team used to represent …
Nest Labs Unstealths: Can Apple and Google Alums Make Thermostats Sexy? – Greentech Media (blog)
Greentech Media (blog)
They are world-class, badass industrial designers with Google, Apple, Microsoft, Tellme, and General Magic pedigrees. And in the words of Rogers, "We wanted to use our skills for good." Fadell was building a green house and when confronted with the …
iPod godfather builds new Nest in Silicon Valley
Apple alums give home thermostats a new twist
The Nest Thermostat: Why Steve Jobs Would Be Proud
Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back – Wired News
Wired News
To help them focus, Google's quietly shuttered a number of products, removing iGoogle and Google Reader's social features and closing Google Labs, Buzz, Jaiku and Code Search in the last two weeks alone. But in doing so, they also killed off one of its …
Unisys transfers DOE Idaho lab employees to the cloud – Washington Technology
Washington Technology
Under the contract, users at Energy's Idaho National Laboratory will receive Google Apps for Government, a cloud-based platform designed to allow the employees to share IT infrastructure, resources, and applications and help them collaborate internally …
Google Labs shuts down, the end of an era – ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech
It remains to be seen. In honor of the closing of Google Labs, there is a slideshow of some the greatest hits that have come out of that exciting project. Check them out on the following pages. Google Labs closed.
Google Webmaster Tools launches custom search engines
Google nixes Buzz, Jaiku, iGoogle social features, Google Labs – Los Angeles Times
Gadget Lab Podcast: Nokia Windows Phones, iOS 5 Newsstand and Google TV | Gadget Lab – BusinessWeek
Gadget Lab Podcast: Nokia Windows Phones, iOS 5 Newsstand and Google TV – Wired News
Tiptoeing Past the Google Graveyard – Inc.com
Google Plus Adds Powerful Photo Edit Suite. Free – Wired News
Google Chrome 15: What’s New – TechWeb
Google in Buzz kill drama – IT Pro
Google to Fold Social Network Buzz and Other Products
Google Body Browser to relaunch as free app
Google Shuttering Buzz In Favor Of Google+; Farewell To Labs by @pamelaparker
Google Killing Buzz to Focus on Google+
Google Labs shuts down, the end of an era
Google nixes Buzz, Jaiku, iGoogle social features, Google Labs
8 cool Google Labs projects spared the axe
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