What the Death of Google Labs Means for Innovation at Google
►http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/what-the-death-of-google-labs-means-for-innovation-at-google/242265
There are a lot of useless Google Labs features. A few examples: Play, a failed attempt to make scrolling through your RSS feeds in Google Reader more interesting; Tashkeel, an entire service meant to help you find which diacritics are missing from Arabic text; and Realtime MyTracks, which allows you to follow the nine riders from Team HTC in the Tour de France as they race across the country.