The last post about Google talked about the dissapointment experienced with a few of their services. When you are a company as large as Google i guess you can do whatever you want.

That’s not to say that they are just producing poor quality products under a high profile name. In fact i believe that most of what Google has to offer is far from that.

They’ve done a lot of major things to work to where they are and kept a lot of it under wraps until the last moment. What they’re doing now and in the future will be extemely hard to keep a secret. So why not show it off?

An article on the New York Times website about an increase in Google’s power discusses the new data center that the company has built in order to fuel it’s ever increasing demands on performance. This incredible two football field sized center with four story high cooling plants is set to be the next growth in Google’s vast infrastructure.

I guess anyone can say what they want about Google, or any company of it’s magnatude and it won’t stop it’s rapid progression. It’s like a speed train at top speed, you’d need something really big to put in it’s path and even then it would probably just push it out of the way.

I’ve recently been reading about Douglas Engelbart’s Hyperscope (a.k.a Augment) project. Started in 1968, it was designed to perform many of the internet tasks such as hyperlinking and email that we use today. Engelbart and his team were far ahead of their time. Engelbart was also the inventor of the mouse - "X-Y position indicator for a display system", and was one of the first nodes on the internet.

Brad Neuberg has recently joined the team to recreate the project for online use. After introducing hyperscope, Brad posts a screencast demonstrating how the Augment works. It was interesting to watch the screencast after watching the original Mother of All Demos video.

It will be interesting to follow the progress of this project and actually use it once released to the public. As stated in Brad’s screencast there are features of the Augment system that have still not yet been implemented into mainstream internet or hyperlinking systems. It’s amazing that someone (Engelbart) was thinking that far ahead and it’s taken this long to catch up.