This experiment, which lets you annotate search results so others can see them, is a neat idea but really hard to do well at scale. Google’s plan for search is weirdly bifurcated: it’s both trying to replace the whole internet with generative AI and also trying to help you find more human voices and human content. There’s a whole What It All Means thing here that is truly fascinating, but the show is so weird! And also funny! “Cobell Energy.” Adam McKay’s production company made an entire relatively high-production show that exists only on social platforms, a few minutes at a time.(I think I even underestimated the issues some people have had with it.) But the Tadpole, which is explicitly made to clip to your laptop, both looks good and works well. Opal’s first webcam, the C1, looked really good and didn’t work very well.

And after months in beta, it’s now available to everyone! It’s a nice app, though Notion’s much better, and I officially don’t understand why Loop, Planner, and OneNote all need to exist. It’s a collaborative, customizable productivity… you know what, it’s Notion. (This was easily the most popular recommendation this week, too - thanks to everyone who sent it in!)

It’s pure word-game chaos, and I love it so far.

Imagine Scrabble, except you’re trying to build the whole board in one turn, and there are a bunch of trumpets trying to help you and monsters trying to stop you.

ChaosMetaverse instaling