Google Is Going To Sell Ads On Yahoo. Google Maps for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Google. Google Glasses Diane Von Furstenberg. Google Q: Made in the USA. Emna Lamine: Résultat du #Débat d'après... Google Stores, Syncs, Edits in the Cloud - Walt Mossberg - Personal Technology. For years, some people who wanted to store files on remote servers in the cloud have been emailing the files to their Gmail accounts, or uploading them to Google’s lightly used Google Docs online productivity suite, even if they had no intention of editing them there. Now, Google is formally jumping into the cloud-based file storage and syncing business, offering a service called Google Drive, which will compete with products like Dropbox and others by offering lower prices and different features.
It works on multiple operating systems, browsers and mobile devices, including those of Google’s competitors Apple and Microsoft. There are apps for Windows, Mac and mobile devices that automatically sync files with Google Drive. I’ve been testing Google Drive, which launches today, and I like it. It subsumes the editing and file-creation features of Google Docs, and replaces Google Docs (though any documents you have stored there carry over). But there is a catch.
GOOGLE COFOUNDERS: Here's Why We Just Announced A Stock Split. CHART OF THE DAY: Google+ Users. LIVE: Google Earnings! With $1 Million On The Line, Chrome Finally Cracked In Hacking Competition. Tech Workshop - Beirut. Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake rolls out Pinwheel | Bootstrap. The co-founder of Flickr and Hunch is out with her latest startup, called Pinwheel.
Caterina Fake just launched it in private beta, and the site--and its name--at first glance seems similar to Pinterest , one of the fastest-growing sites on the Web. Fake raised $7.5 million, with Redpoint Ventures leading the round. Other investors include Ron Conway's SV Angel and The Obvious Corp., run by Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone. That's big money for a startup that's just rolling out and so far has no users. "I'd probably invest in Caterina even if I was unsure of the idea," said Geoff Yang, a Redpoint founding partner who is joining the board of Pinwheel. So what is Pinwheel? The notes can be public or private, shared with an individual, a group, or everyone. Fake sold her first startup, Flickr, to Yahoo in 2005 for a reported $35 million. Incapable de gouverner. U.S.: Google’s acquisition of Motorola is a go.
Google headquarters must be all high-fives today. Just hours after the European Commission cleared the company’s proposed acquisition of Motorola, the U.S. Department of Justice has given its approval on the deal as well. “The division concluded that the specific transactions at issue are not likely to significantly change existing market dynamics,” the Department of Justice said in a press release today that concerned Google’s Motorola acquisition and its approval of the Nortel and Novell patent sales to other major tech companies. The U.S. and EU had been looking closely at the Google acquisition of Motorola because of possible antitrust issues. There were apparent concerns that Motorola could be given unfair advantage when it came to Android mobile operating system that is developed by Google and embedded in Motorola phones and tablets.
The primary reason Google said it wants Motorola is to own its patents, which will help Google better defend Android from lawsuits. Will Zuckerberg's IPO letter be as inspiring as Larry Page's? The same media frenzy of interest that we see today in the Facebook IPO we saw with Google in 2004... I remember vividly the day Google filed its "red herring" with the SEC in preparation for its IPO. I was out at lunch when our bureau chief Richard Waters, called me, "They've filed.
" We were expecting it any day and this was the day, finally an end to what seemed an endless cacophony of speculation in the media and Wall Street about how much money Google was making, its capital costs, etc. We would finally see the audited financial reports -- and that document would immediately establish a new benchmark representing the business model to beat for this next generation of Internet companies. My colleague Scott Morrison ran back to the Financial Times' office by Union Square, where our hard working laser printers were churning and spitting page after page, hundreds of pages were piling up.
It was an extraordinary document. Wow. It's a damn fine Founder's Letter the best I've ever seen. Doodles · Inside Google Search. The Music Industry Whines About Stealing While Stealing From Artists. The music industry is a big supporter of the SOPA bill being considered by Congress right now, which would make it much easier for copyright holders to force Web sites out of business on suspicion that they're hosting copyrighted material. The industry doesn't want people stealing its material. Fair enough. But it's also pretty hypocritical. For years, the big players in the music industry have been taking millions of dollars that belong to songwriters and musicians. The labels know it — there's even an industry term for it, "black box" royalties — but it's perfectly legal and the big labels aren't in any hurry to change it.
Jeff Price is the CEO of TuneCore, which recently set up a program to help musicians reclaim unpaid royalties. Songwriters and musical performers can register with organizations like ASCAP and BMI to get paid every time their song is played on the radio, or streamed online, or performed in public. How much money? We know the answer to that one: Stealing. Groupon's IPO Valuation Slashed To $12 Billion. Google Announces Flow Visualization for Analytics #w2s. Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Google's SVP of advertising, Susan Wojcicki, announced a new feature for Google Analytics called Flow Visualization. It allows sorting by categories like Web browser or country, and it shows the flow of those various categories from left to right, moving around the site.
It's like a tree of information, with the branches flowing and merging as users move from page to page, action to action. Wojcicki and Phil Mui from the Analytics team also demonstrated real-time analytics, announced last month, along with a premium version of the product. Google also announced nine more languages for Analytics today. "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is, I don't know which half. Google took inspiration from Charles Joseph Minard's 1869 graph of Napoleon's campaign in Russia: "It shows time, it shows motion, and it tells a story," Wojcicki said.
Google took inspiration from the 19th century chart and made it dynamic.
Eric Schmidt On The Future Of Search — A Move Towards A “Serendipity Engine” Today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage to give a speech about his thoughts on the future. It was a very interesting talk which spanned a variety of topics. Naturally, the most important topic that Schmidt talked about was search. “We want to give you your time back,” Schmidt said. He noted that we live in an age of information overload, where we all have too much to do. The next step in search is a move towards more personal results, according to Schmidt. Schmidt singled out personal context and personal email as two things a Google query could help with — though he was quick to note that Google would only do this if a user gives their permission. Beyond speed and personalization, the evolution of search will lead us to search occuring when you’re not even using the search engine — autonomous search, Schmidt said.
The common thread Schmidt kept pounding home was the importance of mobile in the future of computing. Google Gets Ballsy With Its Latest Logo. It looks like we’re not the only ones doing some crazy things with our logo tonight. Google’s latest logo doodle is currently setting the web on fire — or driving people insane, depending on what you read. Sure, it’s nothing new for Google to change its logo, but today’s variation is particularly interesting because it’s in motion. Dozens of dots or balls makes up the standard blue, red, yellow, and green logo today. When you first load up Google.com, these dots are scattered all over the place but quickly fall into the Google logo. The posting about the logo on Hacker News states that it’s using an HTML/JavaScript particle simulator.
A few other interesting notes: If you move the browser window around, the balls also move. A number of people are noting they can’t see the logo, so you should try visiting the U.S. or British versions of Google to see it. Sean Percival also made the video below of the logo in action. As for what the logo means, that’s still is up in the air. DoubleClick Ad Planner’s Bestiality Bug (Screenshot) Is Google serving up ads targeted at sites which categorize themselves as “extreme porn,” bestiality,” and “child porn”? Rest assured, it is not. But if you are a website publisher using DoubleClick’s Ad Planner to select categories to match your site to advertiser’s interests, you might think so.
The screenshot at right and below shows what one publisher found when choosing self-descriptive categories. Under “Adult” and “Porn” are those three categories. The issue was first brought to Google’s attention in this help forum, and subsequently by TechCrunch. It turns out this is a software bug, but what a doozy. DoubleClick, which is part of Google, maintains a blacklist of categories and keywords it will not serve ads against. A Google spokesperson provided us with the following statement: “This was a mistake that we are fixing. That’s reassuring. Confirmed: Google Tests Search Results That Update As You Type. SEO consultant Rob Ousbey has noticed an interesting thing happening to his search results, live updates of results as he types in every letter.
Google has confirmed to TechCrunch that the above video is in fact real. Is this capability imminent? Sources familiar with Google product developments could not say whether imminent productization in the cards. So basically this guy ran into a pretty significant Google experiment in the wild. Seeing as though only Ousbey has made noise about this so far, it’s safe to assume that it’s being rolled out to only a tiny fraction of users. From Gabriel Stricker, Google spokesperson: This is a test. This is only a test. Posted by Ambar Pansari, Product Manager, Search User Experience, and Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products and User Experience From time to time, we run live experiments on Google — tests visible to a relatively few people -- to discover better ways to search.
We do this because there’s no good substitute for understanding how real people, in real-world situations, actually operate. Theories are fine, but “improving the user experience” really happens best when we understand what people do online. So to learn more, we sometimes randomly select a group of people to see a possible improvement to search options. Or we may select a group of people and try out a new element while they're searching. If you ever wonder why your Google site looks slightly different from that of the person sitting next to you, this is why.
And we test ways to enrich web results, such as by offering a "Remove Result" option that would omit particular results from future searches if you decide they’re not useful. It’s Official: Google Acquires Like.com. It’s official. Google has acquired Like.com. In a post on Like.com’s homepage, the company’s CEO and Founder Munjal Shah writes that the visual search engine has been bought by Google.
We originally reported the acquisition last weekend. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, we’ve heard it’s valued at upwards of $100 million. Shah’s message doesn’t really give us any hints as to what Google will be doing with Like.com but he alludes to the fact that he (and his team) will continue to work on visual search and cross-matching in e-commerce for the search giant. The history behind Like.com and Google is complicated. In 2009, Riya was shut down, but the company had already refocused its efforts on ecommerce – using the Riya core technology to let people search visually by seeing images that are similar to other images.
From the product standpoint, Like.com operated its visual search engine and then went on to launch a number of smaller sites devotes to fashion and e-commerce. Google Agonizes on Privacy as Advertising World Vaults Ahead. There’s No Success Like Failure: Google’s Biggest Product Flops. Google Shows the Future of Browser Games. Earlier today at GDC Europe, which takes place before Gamescom this week in Germany, Google's new game developer advocate Mark DeLoura and Chrome developer advocate Michael Mahemoff talked about Google's major entry into the browser game space with its app store for Chrome. Set to launch this October, the store aims to make a proper marketplace for browser games -- one that solves a lot of the issues of games on the web today, from discovery to monetization. First, Mark discussed the benefits of Chrome for browser gaming (mainly its speed) and why developers should be excited about its app store, which you can watch in the video highlight below.
After that, we'll walk you through the rest of their presentation. After the intro about Chrome and why developers would want to create content for the app store, the two spoke about all of the technologies that will aid developers in making browser-based games and the features of the app store itself. Mark shows how the store will work. The Chrome Web Store Appears To Be Using Google’s New Social Sauce. Earlier today, it was revealed that development of the Chrome Web Store is well underway, and Google hopes to deploy it around October. That’s good news, and the fact that Google apparently only plans to take a 5 percent of revenues from developers is great news. But look closer at the screenshots leaked from GDC Europe. See that area in the store called “Apps your friends like”? Yes, it appears that this new store will play nicely with Google’s new social strategy.
The key word in the area is “friends.” The only Google property that seems to use “friend” regularly is Orkut, Google’s social network which is only really widely-used in Brazil. Instead, we can probably expect the Chrome Web Store, like many other Google properties, to take advantage of the new social project Google is currently working on. If you look even closer at the pictures, you can see that Google will serve up recommendations in the Chrome Web Store based on games your friends “like.” If German Homes Can Now Opt Out Of Google, Then How About People? Google Agonizes on Privacy as Advertising World Vaults Ahead.
Google’s Jambool Acquisition Confirmed. How Big Is Google? Quick overview on Google’s Products & Services and Servers. You all know that Google is really big, but how big is Google? Even Google doesn’t know how big is Google, because Google is enormously huge, They have a huge list of products, and most sophisticated tracking systems and services. This post is a quick overview on how big is Google and list of Google services. To make my job easy, here’s a link to Google’s corporate history which gives you all information about Google’s evolution.
Here’s a short and cute list of Google’s product and services. Know How Google Data Center Works? Lively (Windows XP/Vista) -3D animated chat program launched on July 9, 2008 and closed December 31, 2008.[7] Here’s another link of google’s acquisitions. If you enjoyed this one, I'm sure you will love what you see in Archives. Google’s Gundotra Goes After Apple: The Video. Google's Homepage Logo Is A Game Of Pac-Man. Concurrence : la toute-puissance de Google remise en cause | Eco. History of Google. Official Google Blog. GoogleWave. Wave - Communicate and collaborate in real time.
Google I/O. Android. Google TV.