Neha Arora and Aboudy Kreidieh, Software Engineers, Google Research
The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
Tired of relying on Big Tech to enable collaboration, peer-to-peer enthusiasts are creating a new model that cuts out the middleman. (That’s you, Google.)
Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix
After spending over a decade in engineering leadership roles at some of the world’s most chaotic innovation factories—Google, Facebook, and Netflix—I’ve learned one universal truth: scaling e…
Buzz: share spare compute and run open models together over p2p networks.
How Block is using Buzz, MeshLLM, and iroh to turn the computers in a community into shared infrastructure for AI agents.
Cooperative Data Centers: Lessons from GAD eG | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
Tara Merk’s report uses GAD eG to show that power in AI does not sit only in data or code. It also sits in the buildings, servers, energy contracts, and ownership structures that decide who gets to…
Beyond the Cloud: Brooklyn Zelenka on Local-First Software
Why rely on the cloud when your devices are already powerful? Brooklyn Zelenka explains how local-first computing is revolutionizing software development for collaboration without constant connectivity.
Apple takes on Google & Microsoft with iWork real-time collaboration | TechCrunch
Announced at Apple's event today, the company takes on Google Documents with real-time collaboration on iWork documents. The long-awaited feature makes it easier to cooperate on creating documents on the fly.
A decentralized web would give power back to the people online | TechCrunch
Recently, Google launched a video calling tool (yes, another one). Google Hangouts has been sidelined to Enterprise, and Google Duo is supposed to be the
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Real-time meetings by Google. Using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with teammates and customers.
Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud
Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
Early Google employees decided to work with a shared codebase managed through a centralized source control system. This approach has served Google well for more than 16 years, and today the vast majority of Google’s software assets continues to be stored in a single, shared repository. Meanwhile, the number of Google software developers has steadily increased, and the size of the Google codebase has grown exponentially (see Figure 1). As a result, the technology used to host the codebase has also evolved significantly.
Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform
The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe
The Fight Against Google’s Minnesota Data Centers - UNICORN RIOT
Minnesota residents are organizing against proposed hyperscale data centers, especially Google-linked projects in Pine Island and Hermantown, citing secrecy through NDAs, inadequate environmental review, and issues with water use, electricity, noise pollution and more.
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Google Takes on Uber With New Ride-Share Service
Google is moving onto Uber’s turf with its own ride-sharing service in San Francisco that would help commuters carpool at far cheaper rates, according to a person familiar with the matter, jumping into a booming but fiercely competitive market.
