BLOG CRUSH: MOVE SLIGHTLY · RUNWAY-INSPIRED NAILS

ph: Move Slightly

Majorly crushing on Elizabeth Monson's blog- MOVE SLIGHTLY ♥
She creates amazing runway-inspired nail designs. Dying to try the Charlotte Olympia kitty nails! Also, super pumped for her new 'Polished' nail segment on LookTV- can't wait to see more!

Sparking a better conversation with Wildfire

Businesses around the world—from neighborhood restaurants to major retailers—are embracing social media to share information and forge stronger relationships with their fans and customers. We know because we are one of those businesses—on Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Indeed, a social presence can complement all marketing campaigns—search, display, video, mobile, offline ads and more.

With this in mind, today we’re happy to share that the Wildfire team will be joining Google. Their co-founders, Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard, launched their startup just four years ago. Since then, they and their team have built a service that helps businesses like Virgin, Cirque du Soleil, Gilt Group and Spotify manage their social efforts across numerous social websites. It’s a platform for brands to manage their pages, apps, tweets, videos, sponsorships, ads, promotions and more, all in one place.

The ultimate goal is better and fresher content, and more meaningful interactions. People today can make their voices heard in ways that were previously impossible, and Wildfire helps businesses uphold their end of the conversation (or spark a new one).

In a complex and changing landscape, businesses want to manage and measure these efforts in an integrated way. We’ve been working towards this end for some time. For example, Google Analytics helps businesses measure the contribution of hundreds of social sites; our Admeld service has helped to serve ads in Facebook developers’ social apps; and our DoubleClick platform enables clients to run and measure ads across social websites. On Google+, brands use services like Vitrue, Buddy Media and others to manage their pages, with many more to come.

With Wildfire, we’re looking forward to creating new opportunities for our clients to engage with people across all social services. We believe that better content and more seamless solutions will help unlock the full potential of the web for people and businesses.

Update August 15, 2012: Our acquisition of Wildfire has now closed.

Posted by Jason Miller, Product Management Director

Arai Vector by Sean De Fraine

A very nice work on Arai helmet by Sean De Fraine.

EASY WHITE DRESS

ph: An Unknown Quantity

Loving her easy white dress- great for summer + with some added layers,
it's a perfect piece to transition into fall. Get the look...

Pin Up Crissy Henderson

Un altro lunedì...accendiamo i motori!

ASYMMETRIC

1. Helmut Lang Asymmetric Net Loose-Knit Sweater
2. Linda Farrow for The Row Leather Cat Eye Sunglasses
3. Courtney Lee Collection Rex Spike Stud Earrings
4. Jason Wu Miss Wu Shoulder Bag
5. Karl Pacey Faux Leather Skinny Pants
6. Lewis Henry Nicholas Small Shelley Cuff Bracelet
7. Deborah Lippmann Nail Polish in 'Fashion'
8. Dream Mullick Freedom Band
9. Boutique 9 Justine Pumps

Live Fast! Ton Up T-shirt

CaraibiRockers - Made with Rock n' Roll Attitude 

Express yourself Express your passion.

BEAUTY BOMB

ph: Vogue Paris

Catherine Mcneil looking bad ass! Yet another reason why I want to add a lil pink to my hair.
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Vespa Sprint

La base delle prime elaborazioni...

LEOPARD KICKS

Leopard print sneakers? Yes please!
Dreaming of wearing them with these denim cut-offs + this slouchy white tee.
You can find the sneakers here.

Make your mark on Google with Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet Search

Unlike searching on a desktop or laptop computer, when you're searching on a touch-screen mobile device it’s often inconvenient to type. So we strive to give you a variety of ways to interact with Google, be it by speaking your queries, getting results before you finish typing, or searching by image. Now there’s a new way for you to interact with Google: Handwrite for web search on mobile phones and tablets.

Say you’re standing on a busy street corner, in a bumpy taxi ride, talking with a friend, or sitting on the couch with your tablet. Handwrite enables you to search by just writing letters with your finger most anywhere on your device’s screen—there’s no keyboard that covers half of the screen and no need for hunt-and-peck typing.



Getting started is easy: go to Google.com in your mobile browser, tap on “Settings” at the bottom of the screen and enable “Handwrite.” Note that after you've saved the setting, you may need to refresh the homepage to see the feature.

On tablets, the Search settings are available as an option behind the gear icon.

Once the feature is enabled, tap the Handwrite icon on the bottom right corner of your screen to activate the writing surface. Write a few letters and you’ll see autocomplete options appear below the search box. If one of the options is what you’re looking for, just tap it to search. For longer queries, you can continue writing and use the arrows next to the autocompletions to move the right one into the search box. Since you can write anywhere, you don’t have to look back and forth repeatedly from the keyboard to the search box.

For more tips and tricks on how to use Handwrite, see our Help Center article. To make accessing Google.com faster, be sure to bookmark it and add it to your home screen.

We designed Handwrite to complement rather than replace typing: with the feature enabled, you can still use the keyboard at any time by tapping on the search box. Handwrite is experimental, and works better in some browsers than others—on Android devices, it works best in Chrome. For now, we’ve enabled Handwrite for iOS5+ devices, Android 2.3+ phones and Android 4.0+ tablets—in 27 languages.

Have fun with this new way of searching!

Posted by Rui Ueyama, Software Engineer

(Cross-posted on the Inside Search Blog)

Super fast fiber for Kansas City

Our goal is to build products that will help improve our users’ lives. And when it comes to Internet access, it's clear what provides a better user experience:

• Fast is better than slow. On the web, nobody wants to wait for a video to buffer or a website to load.
• Abundance is better than scarcity. There’s a plethora of rich content available online—and it’s increasingly only available to people who have the speeds and means to access it.
• Choice is better than no choice. Competition and choice help make products better for users.

With that in mind, we embarked on a journey to bring ultra-high speeds to Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo. And today, we’re excited to announce Google Fiber. Google Fiber is 100 times faster than today’s average broadband. No more buffering. No more loading. No more waiting. Gigabit speeds will get rid of these pesky, archaic problems and open up new opportunities for the web. Imagine: instantaneous sharing; truly global education; medical appointments with 3D imaging; even new industries that we haven’t even dreamed of, powered by a gig.



When we asked people what they value in their Internet service, the majority of them simply said, “choice.” So we listened. Kansas Citians will choose where we install and when. We’ve divided Kansas City into small communities we call “fiberhoods.” To get service, each fiberhood needs a critical mass of their residents to pre-register. The fiberhoods with the highest pre-registration percentage will get Google Fiber first. Households in Kansas City can pre-register for the next six weeks, and they can rally their neighbors to pre-register, too. Once the pre-registration period is over, residents of the qualified fiberhoods will be able to choose between three different packages (including TV).

It’s easy to forget how revolutionary high-speed Internet access was in the 1990s. Not only did broadband kill the screeching sound of dial-up, it also spurred innovation, helping to create amazing new services as well as new job opportunities for many thousands of Americans. But today the Internet is not as fast as it should be. While high speed technology exists, the average Internet speed in the U.S. is still only 5.8 megabits per second (Mbps)—slightly faster than the maximum speed available 16 years ago when residential broadband was first introduced. Access speeds have simply not kept pace with the phenomenal increases in computing power and storage capacity that’s spurred innovation over the last decade, and that’s a challenge we’re excited to work on.

To find out more about the different service packages and the pre-registration process see our Google Fiber Blog, which we’ll regularly update with new information over the coming weeks. This is an exciting new project for Google and we can’t wait to get homes connected to Google Fiber in Kansas City—because we’re pretty certain that what people do with a gig will be awesome.

Posted by Milo Medin, Vice President, Access Services

(Cross-posted from the Google Fiber Blog)

Triumph Thruxton 904 Ace Cafè

Great bike, great shot, great location.

JESSICA HART • DAY + NIGHT

ph: Model Candids |  Zimbio

Jessica Hart is becoming a new favorite!
I always love a good black dress- these are perfect inspiration for day + night looks.

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Petrol Station

Vintage petrol station.

Beach Time

La voglia di mare è tanta!
Per quelli che già sono tornati dalle ferie, per quelli che ancora devono partire e per quelli che rimarranno in città...

MIXED FLORALS

ph: Be France

Pretty prints! Love these mixed florals.
Click below for more + to find out how to get the look...




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Moto Guzzi Griso Black Devil

A noi piace proprio tanto questa particolare edizione della Griso 1200 8v.
La Black Devil, serie speciale della muscolosa bicilindrica di Mandello del Lario, si rinnova nella veste commemorando Omobono Tenni detto 'Black Devil', eroico pilota del Tourist Trophy.

Motore bicilindrico a V di 90°, 4 tempi
Cilindrata 1.151cc
Potenza max all’albero 81kW (110CV) a 7.500 giri/minuto
Coppia max all'albero 110 Nm a 6.000 giri/minuto
Raffreddamento aria e olio
Sospensione anteriore forcella a steli rovesciati Ø 43 mm completamente regolabile
Sospensione posteriore monobraccio CARC con leveraggio progressivo, monoammortizzatore con
serbatoio gas separato completamente regolabile
Freno anteriore doppio disco flottante in acciaio inox, Ø 320 mm, pinze radiali a 4 pistoncini
contrapposti
Freno posteriore disco fisso in acciaio inox, Ø 282 mm, pinza flottante a 2 pistoncini paralleli
Pneumatico anteriore Tubeless 120/70 ZR17"
Pneumatico posteriore Tubeless 180/55 ZR17"
Altezza sella 800 mm
Capacità serbatoio
carburante
17 litri (riserva 3,5 litri)
Omologazione Secondo Multidirettiva Euro 3
Gamma colori: Black Devil
Prezzo Moto Guzzi Griso 8V Black Devil  12.190 Euro.

The winners of the 2012 Google Science Fair

Twenty-one of the world’s brightest young scientists gathered at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View today to celebrate their achievements and present their projects to a panel of renowned judges at the Google Science Fair finals.

Chosen from thousands of projects from more than 100 countries, these top 15 projects impressed the judges and public with their breadth of topics: from cancer research to vertical farming, 3D electronics to dementia. It was a tough decision, but we’re proud to name these three projects the winners of this year’s Google Science Fair:

• 13-14 age category: Jonah Kohn (USA)—“Good Vibrations: Improving the Music Experience for People with Hearing Loss Using Multi-Frequency Tactile Sound.” By creating a device that converts sound into tactile vibrations, Jonah’s project attempts to provide the hearing impaired with an improved experience of music.
  
• 15-16 age category: Iván Hervías Rodríguez, Marcos Ochoa and Sergio Pascual (Spain)—“La Vida Oculta del Agua (The Secret Life of Water).” Iván, Marcos and Sergio studied hidden microscopic life in fresh water, documenting the organisms that exist in a drop of water, and how those organisms influence our environment.
  
• 17-18 age category AND Grand Prize Winner: Brittany Wenger (USA)—“Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer.” Brittany’s project harnesses the power of the cloud to help doctors accurately diagnose breast cancer. Brittany built an application that compares individual test results to an extensive dataset stored in the cloud, allowing doctors to assess tumors using a minimally-invasive procedure.

Each of the winners will receive prizes from Google and our Science Fair partners: CERN, LEGO, National Geographic and Scientific American. This evening, we also recognized Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela, from Swaziland, the winners of the Scientific American Science in Action award.

The judges were impressed with the quality of all the projects this year—and by the ingenuity, dedication and passion of the young scientists who created them. We applaud every contestant who submitted a project to the 2012 Google Science Fair and look forward to seeing the innovations, inventions and discoveries of young scientists in the years to come.

Posted by Cristin Frodella, Google in Education

MUSTARD

1. Equipment Color-Block Shirt
2. Illesteva Lily Round-Frame Acetate Sunglasses
3. Real Jewels Starburst Stud Earrings
4. Bauble Bar Twitter-Plate Necklace << Personalized twitter necklace!
5. Proenza Schouler PS11 Mini Textured Leather Bag
6. Current/Elliott The Boyfriend Jeans
7. Oasis Metal Bracelet Watch
8. Deborah Lippmann Nail Polish in 'My Old Flame'
9. Aldo Fravel White Pumps

Happy Bday Slash

Happy Birthday Slash!

'Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.'

Saul Hudson (London, UK - July 23, 1965)

Surfing

Sempre a caccia dell'onda giusta!

Buona settimana.

ALL IN THE ACCESSORIES

ph: Le 21ème | Adam Katz Sinding + Wayne Tippetts

Two great takes on the white-top-with-denim-cut-offs combo.
Both have a similar base, but it's their accessories that truly define each of their styles.

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LILY

ph: Vogue Russia

Oh Lily Donaldson, how I've missed you! Loving these minimal looks + the Prada floral embroidered pieces. Click below for more + to find out how to get the look...



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Made with Rock n' Roll Attitude

Made with Rock n' Roll Attitude - Based on Style and Quality

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Loving this gif from We The People ♥

Have a great weekend!

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Ramadan traditions with a digital twist

Today, more than a billion Muslims around the world begin to observe the holy month of Ramadan, fasting from dawn to sunset. This year, we’re bringing some of the most venerable Ramadan traditions online.

We’re sharing the Islamic prayers live from Mecca on a dedicated YouTube channel. Millions of people from around the world will be able to experience and comment on the event by tuning in via video.

Ramadan is about more than just prayer; it is also a special moment to gather with friends and family. Muslims gather to watch special television shows produced for the holiday and shown only during Ramadan. Often the shows overlap in scheduling. This year, for the first time, YouTube is enabling people to watch their favorite shows anytime, anywhere. A new YouTube Ramadan channel lets viewers see more than 50 premium Ramadan shows the same day they air. In the clip below, famed Syrian actor Jamal Suliman appears in a drama:



Ramadan’s tastiest tradition is the food. After fasting through the day, families gather for evening break-the-fast meals called Iftar. Through Google+ Hangouts, we’re hosting 30 virtual get-togethers in the 30 days of Ramadan, in which celebrity chefs will share their favorite recipes and doctors will give tips on eating healthy.

The hangouts will engage people in subjects far beyond eating. Actors will talk about their favorite Ramadan shows. Poets will discuss literature inspired by the holiday. Religious figures will answer questions. Stay tuned to the Google Arabia page on Google+ for more details and join in.

We hope you enjoy experiencing your favorite Ramadan traditions with a digital twist this year. Ramadan Kareem!

Posted by Maha Abouelenein, Head of Communications Middle East and North Africa

Cafe Racers Motorcycles

Foto trovata in giro sul web. Ci sembra una realizzazione made in Usa, molto carine entrambe.
GASSS!!

SUMMER LEOPARD

ph: Luxury Shoppers

Love this easy summer look! Leopard + red always look so great together.

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Explore “This Exquisite Forest” with Chrome and London’s Tate Modern

This morning, in partnership with the Tate Modern in London, we released an online art experiment called This Exquisite Forest, which lets you collaborate with others to create animations and stories using a web-based drawing tool.

Seven renowned artists from Tate’s collection, including Bill Woodrow, Dryden Goodwin, Julian Opie, Mark Titchner, Miroslaw Balka, Olafur Eliasson and Raqib Shaw, have created short “seed” animations. From these seeds, anyone can add new animations that extend the story or branch it in a new direction. Or you can start a tree of your own with some friends. As more sequences are added, the animations grow into trees, creating a potentially infinite number of possible endings to each animation.



In addition to the website, an interactive installation will open on July 23 in the Level 3 gallery of Tate Modern. Trees seeded by Tate artists—and the contributions from the public—will be on display as large-scale projections. Gallery visitors may also contribute using digital drawing stations.

This Exquisite Forest uses several of Google Chrome’s advanced HTML5 and JavaScript features to produce a unique content creation and exploration experience. For example, the Web Audio API makes it possible for contributors to generate music to accompany their submissions. The project also runs on Google App Engine and Google Cloud Storage.

Please try it out at ExquisiteForest.com and contribute your own animation to help the forest grow.

Posted by Aaron Koblin, Google Creative Lab, Data Arts Team

More detailed maps in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia

Whether you’re travelling abroad or exploring your own city, the maps you carry with you should be comprehensive, accurate and easy to use. We're constantly making improvements to Google Maps to help you find and discover places that are meaningful to you no matter where you are. And today, we’re launching updated maps of Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lesotho, Macau, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore and Vatican City to do just that.

As was the case for past updates, our new maps are more detailed and precise. For example, in Ireland we now have excellent coverage of National Heritage Areas, as well as more detailed coastlines and bodies of water:

Explore this area in Google Maps

We’ve also added more accurate names and locations for major points of interest, such as airports, universities and public squares. Here you can see St. Mark’s Square in Venice, now with accurately aligned canals, 3D buildings and detailed labels of the countless number of places to be discovered.

Explore this area on Google Maps

We’ve also added better and more clearly labelled ferry routes in many places, such as the area below surrounding Naples, Italy. Traveling by ferry is one of my favorite ways to explore a city—I love looking back from the water at the cityscapes—and this improvement will help you find the ferry routes you need to do the same. You can even use Google Maps to get transit-based directions for ferries. We take into account ferry timetables to route you over water just easily as you might follow our driving directions over land.

Explore this area on Google Maps

In addition to the above changes, local roads on these maps are now more accurately distinguished from highways, and multi-lingual names are available for a larger proportion of roads in many of the updated countries. These improvements give you a better visual feel of the location, as well as make it easier to navigate the area when you're on the ground.

Of course, the world around us is always changing, so we’re making our “Report a problem” tool available in each of these countries as well. You can use it to send us a description of any corrections to be made, which we then incorporate into our maps, often within days.

Today’s improvements follow the recent expansion of our collection of Antarctic imagery, and are part of our ongoing effort to build maps that are comprehensive, accurate and easy to use. We've partnered with numerous authoritative sources to ensure that Google Maps is a living reflection of every corner of the globe. After all, a map is only as good as the data behind it. The maps that we've built will help ensure that you get correct and up-to-date information about the world around you.

Update 8:00pm: We're also making certain maps of the 11 countries listed above, plus Egypt, Poland and Ukraine, available offline in Google Maps for Android.

Posted by Michael Weiss-Malik, Engineering Manager, Google Maps

London

Una città piena di fascione e vita.

MERMAID EYES

ph: Used Magazine

Love this shimmery sequin eye make-up! Probably takes forever to do though. I wish there were some sort of durable sequin strips out there for our eyes. Anyone know of anything like that?

Web Lab: the magic of the Internet, brought to life

Inspiration comes in many forms and can influence you in unexpected ways. I can trace my own interest in programming to Babbage’s Analytical Engine, which fascinated me on my childhood visits to the Science Museum in London.

This idea that science and technology can inspire people is one that we hold close to our hearts. It’s also the thought behind a new exhibition we’re launching today online and at the Science Museum in London. We hope to inspire people around the world by showcasing the magic that the Internet makes possible.



Launching in beta, Web Lab is a set of five physical installations housed in the Science Museum in London. You can interact with them in person at the museum, or from anywhere in the world at chromeweblab.com. By opening up the museum experience to the world online, Web Lab doesn’t play by the usual rules—a visitor’s location and museum opening hours no longer matter.

Each of the five experiments—Universal Orchestra, Data Tracer, Sketchbots, Teleporter and Lab Tag Explorer—showcases a modern web technology found in Chrome to explore a particular theme in computer science. For example, the Universal Orchestra experiment uses WebSockets to demonstrate real time collaboration as people from around the world make music together on custom-built robotic instruments housed in the Science Museum.

Please join us online or at the Science Museum in London (entry is free), and let us know what you think. True to its name, the year-long exhibition is a working lab, and we’ll continue to tinker with it based on your feedback.

Here’s to the next wave of Internet invention!

Posted by Jayme Goldstein, Product Marketing Manager, Chrome, on behalf of the Web Lab team

(Cross-posted from the Chrome Blog)

LEOPARD + HEELS

ph: my instagram

Today's look...
E&J sunnies | Rag & Bone t-shirt | Zara pants | Alexander Wang heels | Proenza Schouler bag

ps- follow me on instagram >> @lefashion

Guzzi Firestarter Garage

Filippo Barbacane ha sempre realizzato special di rara bellezza.
Questa risale a qualche anno fà, ai tempi del Firestarter Garage, oggi sostituito da Officine Rossopuro.

JACKET CRUSH

ph: Free People

Gorgeous studded print + fringe leather jacket...
It's like an Isabel Marant print had a baby with studded Chloe ankle boots! Find it HERE.

Burn Baby Burn!

Black Dodge Charger