At the PdF '09 Jeff Jarvis asks us about reinventing Government: What Would Google Do?

All we know about the future is that it has something to do with knowledge and abundance.

Larry Page's University of Michigan Commencement Address

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know how, if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed to write it down, it will be completely gone the next morning?

Well, I had one of those dreams when I was 23. When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking: what if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links and... I grabbed a pen and started writing! Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work.

The optimism of youth is often underrated! Amazingly, I had no thought of building a search engine. The idea wasn't even on the radar. But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking webpages to make a really great search engine, and Google was born. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!

Vic Gundotra a developer evangelous at Google in a conversation with Tim O'Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco

Dive into the new Google earth

At last we can explore our ocean with a few keystrokes and mouse clicks. For the first time many of us will discover our planet and ourselves are composed of 70% water.

I've spent most of my life living neer the ocean and I love to swin, dive and dream about where we came from.

Explore New York City with Google -- from your home, phone, and in person

My hometown New York City is  the ultimate destination for work or play and along with Google this morning they launched a new website and Information Center  at 810 Seventh Avenue to help make it easier for both visitors and New Yorkers to explore the energy, excitement and diversity of the City's five boroughs. nycgo.com is the official resource on the web for all there is to see, do in the City. This dynamic site uses Google Maps to help you plan your next New York experience and who knows I might see you there. 

@Twitter: Welcome to Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect has hooked into Twitter, this integrated with means that when you join a friend connected site, you can choose to use your Twitter profile, discover people you follow on Twitter who are also members of the site, and quickly tweet that you have found a something.

So much has been happening on Twitter, just ask the moon