Gmail Goodness: Gmail gets better search

Saw this on the unofficial Google OS Blog.  Love that you can now search by file size, and there's even some serious propeller-head search parameters for searching message header data.  I haven't used up all my space, and I pander to my inner packrat on gmail, but I know I could use these features to do some much needed cleanup.

Ingress: Google is developing an augmented reality game

Niantic Labs, the group within Google that also produced the Field Trip app, is coming out with an augmented reality game they're calling Ingress.  This looks pretty cool; invite only (and apparently Android only) for now.  Makes me wonder if this is a feeder for information into the Field Trip application, or some other project of Google's?

Awesome and scary: Mozilla Popcorn Maker

Heard about this on This Week in Google #172: Mozilla branches out into online video editing and remixing with Popcorn Maker.  The product allows you to layer other content over web video; imagine watching an interview and getting a live Twitter feed of the interviewee (and heck, why not the interviewer, too?), or Wikipedia articles or Google Maps relevant to the subject matter.  It seems to rely on the ability to link to all the content you use, including the video, but I suspect this could be a bit of a legal minefield for copyrighted material.  I could see this as an interesting collaborative tool for annotating lectures or other academic material.  It also has the potential for being used as digital graffiti, but since the original content and link shouldn't be affected, hopefully that won't be a major problem.  Definitely a product with a lot of potential in an awesome and possibly scary way; awesomely scary? Scarily awesome?

Lifehacker breaks down Yahoo! Pipes

Thank goodness for Lifehacker giving some practical examples for using Yahoo! Pipes; Pipes comes off like "well, smart people can understand it, why can't you?" I feel like I should be intrigued, but I just haven't got the time and patience to put into it.

Now, if I could post some stuff that didn't make me sound like a complete Lifehacker shill...