Google Brings History to Life With Online Exhibitions. Now you can learn about 42 important historical events from the last century on your home computer through the Google Cultural Institute.
The product of a partnership between Google and a number of museums and cultural foundations, the online exhibit combines letters, first-hand video testimonials, manuscripts and more into a multimedia historical journey. “The historical collections are the latest chapter in the work of the Google Cultural Institute, following the Art Project, World Wonders and the Nelson Mandela archives, “ Mark Yoshitake, product Manager for the Google Cultural Institute said in a blog post announcing the exhibitions. “We’re working closely with museums, foundations and other archives around the world to make more cultural and historical material accessible online and by doing so preserve it for future generations.” Report: Vast Majority Of Top U.S. Schools Use Google Apps. Track Hurricane Sandy Using The Google Crisis Map 1.07K Views 0 Likes If you're on the east coast like we are, you've got a pit in your stomach about Hurricane Sandy.
It's shaping up to be brutal and there's talk of widespread power outages and dangerous flooding and winds. In an effort to keep everyone safe, Google has created a very useful 'Crisis Map' that shows plenty of relevant information about the storm's trajectory, details about it, radar views, cloud cover, and more. Google Announces 100 Live Hangouts For Teachers Around The World. How Journalists Are Using Google+ Google’s still-young social network is largely the territory of early adopters and tech enthusiasts, but that hasn’t stopped journalists from experimenting with it.
(Part 3 in a 4-part series on how journalists are using social networks beyond Facebook and Twitter.) Google+ makes a convenient distribution channel for content, much like Facebook and Twitter. But as any social media guru will tell you, these platforms are not just about barfing out a series of self-promotional links (which followers tend to tolerate in limited doses). Engaging people is half the battle, and Google+ offers a few ways to do it. Google to use wind energy for Oklahoma data center. Google is going green at a data center in Oklahoma.
The search giant announced today that it has signed a deal with the Grand River Dam Authority to transition the energy supply for its Oklahoma data center to wind energy. According to Google, the supply will be powered by 48 megawatts of wind energy from the Canadian Hills Wind Project in Oklahoma. Why Google’s homepage antics are more serious than they appear. Browser Wars: Chrome's Success On A World Map. Analytics firm StatCounter is offering a stunningly entertaining tool to follow the distribution and popularity of web browsers globally. It’s like playing Risk with Chrome, IE, Firefox and Opera. When you are playing the board game Risk, there is always a time when you know it is time to give up or that you have won. Your armies are in place and your bases are defended to a degree that you can’t lose anymore. As Google Fiber rollouts begin, here’s what cable will watch most closely — Cloud Computing News.
The Secret to Getting a Job at Google Revealed. Google+ Now Lets You Merge Your Personal, Work Profiles. Google announced on Thursday that Google+ users with a profile attached to a regular Gmail account and a work-related Google apps account can now blend the two together.
When Google Apps gained Google+ support last October, Google promised a migration tool was on the way. Nine months later, it's finally here. The new tool, which is a part of the company's Google Takeout data-liberation service, allows users to elect a master Google+ account and transfer circles and other information to one main profile, instead of having two separate accounts. Google: We're One of the World's Largest Hardware Makers. Google is a web company, and it rakes in most of its money from online ad sales, but it has another identity that few people understand: It’s also a massive hardware maker.
For years, the company has designed the servers, networking gear, and perhaps other hardware that helps drive its many web services. Google is pretty secretive about its hardware work — the company sees it as a competitive advantage — but at Google’s annual stockholder meeting Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette actually spelled it out. Google Plus Isn't A Social Network. Google Books Scanning Errors Turned into Art. Andrew Norman Wilson got a lot of attention last year for his Workers Leaving the Googleplex video, which depicted a little-known group of contractors at Google’s HQ, charged with doing the scanning that feeds Google’s mission to digitize every book that it possibly can.
While Wilson lost his own contractor job in video production at Google as a result of the film, that hasn’t stopped his fascination with Google’s ‘ScanOps’, a supposedly marginalized group of workers who don’t get the same perks that many other workers in the Googleplex receive (although to be fair, they are contractors). The latest manifestation of Wilson’s interest is ScanOps, a collection of images from the Google Books collection, many of which accidentally show the hands of the workers who scanned them (such as this example), manipulated in various ways to create works of art. Wilson explains: Ex-Google employee says Google+ has ruined the company - Mar. 14. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Angry rants about the demise of corporate culture aren't reserved only for ex-Goldman Sachs employees.
The Mounting Minuses at Google+ YouTube Launches Non-Profit Simulator. YouTube has announced a new way to help non-profits better tell their stories on the video platform. YouTube Next Cause, the latest addition to the Creator program, is a day-long summit in San Francisco April 2 during which the company will offer non-profits training and consulting on YouTube best practices for promotion and community engagement. "We want to help non-profits turn their view counts into actions — dollars raised, petitions signed," YouTube spokesperson Jessica Mason told Mashable. Mason suggested three tips for non-profits hoping to expand their channels: First, engage with the community by replying to comments and giving them an action step, such as a petition to sign.
Second, upload regularly to build a consistent relationship. Third, don't assume that great videos require big budgets. Circles Are Becoming A Competitive Advantage for Google+ Google+ updated the Circles interface to make it easier to find people.
The snazzy HTML5 circle controls now shrink down for smaller screens. The page now has a new left sidebar like the circles menu on the main Google+ page but with a few more options for managing circles. The page now has a tab for the people who have you in their circles, as well as a tab for finding people on Google+ from Gmail, Yahoo! , Hotmail, or you can upload your address book. The "Find People" tab also suggests related people or pages to follow. Does the great Google unification create more problems than it solves? NewsGator Has Quietly Built An Enterprise Social Networking Business On Top Of SharePoint.
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Those of us who were using RSS readers in the middle of the past decade most likely think of desktop app FeedDemon for Windows or desktop/mobile app NetNewsWire for Mac when we hear the name. But the company has spent the last several years turning itself into an enterprise networking company that competes with Jive, Salesforce Chatter, Yammer and the many others out there. And it’s had its biggest year yet in 2011, chief executive JB Holston tells me, by steadily building up its business on top of a place you might not have thought of: Microsoft SharePoint. It’s riding the popularity of simpler social software for businesses by bringing industry-leading features to Microsoft’s extremely full-featured and extremely arcane collaboration platform, which has 125 million or so seats worldwide.
Which is to say, a big pool of clients who don’t naturally gravitate to the freemium model that some competitors have used to get in with small and medium-sized businesses. Google Chrome 17 pre-renders pages you may visit. Google+'s secret weapon against Twitter and Facebook. The proliferation of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter come mostly from success stories, and cross-over events with mainstream media.
Once CNN started using tweets during live broadcasts, the platform was cemented in our minds as a destination to discover topical trends and real-time conversation. Once Facebook became a strong piece of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, we knew that the social network bohemeth wasn’t going anywhere. The Top Ten Threats to Google. Eric Schmidt Is Right: Google’s Glory Days Are Numbered. Editor’s note: Guest contributor Dan Kaplan leads Product Marketing for Twilio and writes occasionally about the extrapolation of the present into the future. Follow him @dankaplan. “History shows that popular technology is often supplanted by entirely new models.”
That simple observation, presented in a letter from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, summarizes Google’s single best line of defense against the blunt instruments of government regulatory dismemberment. You don’t have to fear our power, Google says, because something will inevitably come along and take it from us. How Google+ And Other "Little Versions Of Facebook" Solve Social Media's "Big" Problem.
Mark Zuckerberg has called grouping friends "the biggest problem in social networking. " No wonder. With 800 million users, Facebook boasts one of the messiest social graphs out there--users average 130 friends, which range from ex-girlfriends to distant cousins to mortal enemies, making sharing on the network a giant headache and a huge liability for some. (You wouldn't want to share the same status updates or check-ins with your roommate as you would your boss.) Zuck also called Google+ a "little version of Facebook.
" Google is launching its second incubator, this time in Israel. The Women Who Made Google Plus: 22 Developers Behind the World's Fastest Growing Social Network. Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day dedicated to celebrating the world's first computer programmer and to share inspiring stories about women working in science, technology and math. Surely some of the most significant technical work done by women since this day last year includes the creation of what is said to be the fastest-growing social network in history, Google Plus. Launched on June 28th and just opened to the public at large late last month, Google Plus is a feature-rich social network with variable privacy and sharing settings at the core of its experience. Who were the women involved in building such a big, important technology? We asked, on Google Plus, and were told about twenty two of them profiled below.
They are an incredibly accomplished group of people and a great source of inspiration for young women interested in science and technology - or for anyone else who could use some powerful role models. Frances Haugen is the Google Plus Profiles and Search Product Manager. Armed With Social Signals, Google Moves Back Towards Real-Time Search. Google announced a big change to its search ranking algorithm today that affected around 35% of searches. It now makes an effort to determine when a query should return more up-to-date, "fresher" search results, before more established but older links. For example, if you search for "olympics," you're likely to be looking for information about the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics, rather than older or more general information. Waiting for the demise of Google+? Don't hold your breath - TNW Google. Since day one, bloggers, social media experts, and just about anyone with an opinion has been very quick to pass judgement over Google+’s future.
The social network hasn’t even closed in on 3 months and already many are more than happy to predict its early demise. Google Plus Will Integrate with Blogger. Google+ Adds Mobile Group Video Chats: Will Facebook Ever Come Hang Out? Google today ramped up its social network Google+ by opening invites to the public and adding a slew of new mobile features. Two of the more impressive upgrades relate to Hangouts, the group video-chatting service the search giant has made core to its social offering.
The Unsocial Network: Why Google Is Wrong to Kill Off Google Reader. Google Apps Coming To Google+ ‘Within Days’; Company Taking A ‘Cautious Approach’ To APIs. Now With Search and More! - Google+ Platform Blog. The Women Who Made Google Plus: 22 Developers Behind the World's Fastest Growing Social Network. Waiting for the demise of Google+? Don't hold your breath - TNW Google. Which Way For Google Plus? Two Social Startup CEOs Discuss [Video] Facebook makes its privacy settings act more like Google+
Why the Navy Likes Google+ Google+ Is An Identity Service.