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I’ve watched quite a few Google tech talks in the last few months. There are lots available. Here are some of the ones I found interesting (If you have recommendations for good talks that I haven’t listed below please leave a comment).

Snakes & Rubies

• Snakes and Rubies - Adrian
• Snakes and Rubies - DHH
• Snakes and Rubies - Q&A

Ruby

• Ruby And Google Maps
• RUBY: Competitious On Rails
• Ruby Sig: How To Design A Domain Specific Language

Python

• django: Web Development for Perfectionists
• BayPIGgies: Developing A Product In Python
• Python 3000
• Guido van Rossum
• Python for Programmers
• Advanced Python or Understanding Python

Seaside

• Web apps: why bother? - Seaside
• Seaside: Agile Web Application Development with Squeak
• The Heretic Web Framework - Seaside

Other programming stuff

• Practical Common Lisp
• Best Practices in Javascript Library Design
• Erlang
• Groovy things to do with Groovy

Distributed Revision Control

• Linus Torvalds on git
• Git - a Talk by Randal Schwartz
• Mercurial Talk

Research topics

• On-Demand Information Extraction
• Incremental Bayesian Networks for Natural Language Parsing
• Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge
• Scalability and Efficiency on Data Mining Applied to Internet Applications

Unixy topics

• Dtrace Review
• How the FreeBSD Project Works
• The State of the Linux Kernel

Other web stuff

• Implementing Drupal
• Flex, Flash and Apollo for Rich Internet Applications
• Gears and the Mashup Problem
• How To Break Web Software - A look at security vulnerabilities in web software
• High Performance Web Sites and YSlow

Miscellanea

• Salesforce.com AppExchange Overview
• Leveraging Unit Tests As Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors
• What Every Engineer Needs to Know About Security and Where to Learn It
• How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)
• Scrum et al
• Wikipedia and MediaWiki
• Computers versus Common Sense
• Human Computation
• The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less
• Making Great Decisions
• 7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0
• Lessons From Advogato
• The Implications of OpenID
• Scary Monsters: Does Social Software Have Fangs?

Authors@Google

• Steve Wozniak
• Steven Levy
• Neil Gaiman
• Seth Godin
• George Soros
• James McManus
• Cory Doctorow
• Randall Munroe (xkcd.com)