Links for Saturday January 1^st, 2011

• Paul Buchheit: Four reasons Google is still Awesome: Some good things to keep in mind when thinking about Google. This is the most salient point:

  "If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either. Obviously, if everything you do fails, that's not good either, but there's a sweet-spot somewhere in the middle. Google has enough big successes, such as Chrome and Android, to show that they are somewhere near that sweet-spot."

• Intel intros SSD 310 for dual-disk notebooks: I think that hybrid SSD / hard drive storage is going to be a great compromise for the next few years. I really hope that Apple uses these new Intel drives (or something like it) in 2011.