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Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by joshwa »

bfung wrote: post #7

also has keyboard commands, across the rows: do re mi fa so la ti do re mi q w e r t y u i o p a s d f g h j k l ; z x c v b n m , . / Edit: If anyone cares to figure out the recorded encoding scheme, could probably "record" or program a tune. ex: http://www.google.com/webhp?tune= song here> ex, do-re-mi from Sound of music http://www.google.com/webhp?tune=IAZxghAmCEEYYYZgQGAMMEMwARh... ex: chopsticks http://www.goog…

too bad there's only the major scale. the full 12 tones would have been pretty fun...

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by dermatthias »

irahul wrote: post #10

Google is one of the few companies who would invest in this sort of PR. It's good publicity for them and also an ultra creative way to garner people's curiosity and attention. It must have been a hell lot of work(unless I am missing something) but it's totally justified.

Best PR ever. Today, in every office around the world, there will be at least one person saying "have you seen the google logo today?". And everybody will have a good time. Totally worth the development cost (and such a thing will be enjoyed by everyone who develops it).

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

revorad wrote: post #49
forgingahead wrote: post #36

La Vie En Rose: http://goo.gl/doodle/gSAz It stops recording after a bit - I had the whole song too! Haha this is great *Edit: Last part to complete the song, because it was bugging me: http://goo.gl/doodle/aEl1 And, quickie Imperial March: http://goo.gl/doodle/D6ce

I'm being extra slow this morning... errr how do you play back recordings?

It should just play back as soon as you load the page.

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by nostrademons »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #50
tzury wrote: post #45

The problem with those amazing crafts is that they disappear the day later, and you cannot get a cached version of them. at http://www.google.com/logos/index.html you only have a static version of it, (see Martha Graham's 117th Birthday for instance). Dear googlers on HN, is there anything you guys can do about this?

Some logos get their own page, e.g. http://www.google.com/pacman/ I'm sorry that posting this link may lower productivity for a bunch of people. :)

Most of them get their own page eventually. The limiting factor is just engineer-time; a backlog tends to develop when there're a bunch of interactive doodles in a row, because the engineer(s) in question are too busy working on the next doodle to put the previous one up.

I know how to do it and currently have nothing to do on my real project, so maybe tomorrow I'll ask the engineers in question if they mind me putting up standalone versions of some of the backlogged doodles.

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by DeusExMachina »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #50
tzury wrote: post #45

The problem with those amazing crafts is that they disappear the day later, and you cannot get a cached version of them. at http://www.google.com/logos/index.html you only have a static version of it, (see Martha Graham's 117th Birthday for instance). Dear googlers on HN, is there anything you guys can do about this?

Some logos get their own page, e.g. http://www.google.com/pacman/ I'm sorry that posting this link may lower productivity for a bunch of people. :)

Is there a list of these? It's hard to guess the names.

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by kristaps »

joshwa wrote: post #51
bfung wrote: post #7

also has keyboard commands, across the rows: do re mi fa so la ti do re mi q w e r t y u i o p a s d f g h j k l ; z x c v b n m , . / Edit: If anyone cares to figure out the recorded encoding scheme, could probably "record" or program a tune. ex: http://www.google.com/webhp?tune= song here> ex, do-re-mi from Sound of music http://www.google.com/webhp?tune=IAZxghAmCEEYYYZgQGAMMEMwARh... ex: chopsticks http://www.goog…

too bad there's only the major scale. the full 12 tones would have been pretty fun...

Fun for educated musicians, perhaphs, for ordinary users it would just mean a larger chance to hit the "wrong" notes.

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by nostrademons »

DeusExMachina wrote: post #55
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some logos get their own page, e.g. http://www.google.com/pacman/ I'm sorry that posting this link may lower productivity for a bunch of people. :)

Is there a list of these? It's hard to guess the names.

They're linked from the /logos page:

http://www.google.com/logos/

If you go back to May 2010, PacMan is there, as are all the other ones. The interactive ones get hyperlinked to a standalone page.

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by nostrademons »

kristaps wrote: post #58
joshwa wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

too bad there's only the major scale. the full 12 tones would have been pretty fun...

Fun for educated musicians, perhaphs, for ordinary users it would just mean a larger chance to hit the "wrong" notes.

I wish it had octaves above and below though. It's hard to play anything in a minor key, because the relative minor starts on the 6th and then you only have like 4 notes above that.
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