Posts Tagged ‘google’
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
The debate is starting to get confusing. It’s like schoolyard bickering all over again. Apple doesn’t like Adobe, Google doesn’t like Apple, Adobe and Google are buddying up, YouTube is stuck in the middle. And Steve Jobs rants at everyone.
The latest development in the HTML5 vs. Flash debate was YouTube rewriting its mobile site entirely in HTML5 – after criticising it in their official blog. This was happy news for iPhone and iPad users, but the rest of us are confused. Who’s in the right and what’s the future of these web technologies?
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Matt Brittin, Google’s UK and Ireland managing director, is anticipating a mobile revolution, the Marketing Week reports.
According to Brittin, we are at the very start of “a revolution where the internet and mobile devices collide and it’s going to change the world over the next three years”.
Speaking at the IAB Engage for Mobile conference, Brittin highlighted faster, better connection; smaller, cleverer devices; low costs and the cloud as the key drivers in the rise of the mobile. He urged the audience to act as mobile pioneers to drive the medium forward at this critical stage.
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Tags: digital marketing, google, mobile
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Google is planning to launch a music download store in 2010, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The search giant is expected to roll out a music download store, directly linked to its search engine later this year. The “interim step” would be followed by an online subscription service in 2011.
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Tags: Digital, google, iTunes, music
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
The official Google Wave blog outlines various examples of what can be done with the Wave. Fancy words like ‘creative collaboration’ keep cropping up, but the post does actually offer some useful real-life examples as well.
Here are a couple we found interesting:
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Designed to merge emails, instant messaging, social networking and document sharing, Google’s “ultimate real-time collaboration tool” hasn’t been the success it was hoped to be.
Google Wave was announced a year ago in May with a great fanfare hailing it as “the next big step” in online communication. The beta testing stage in September complied with the company’s signature word-of-mouth approach designed to maximise the hype around the tool.
The start looked promising. At the peak of the hype, invitations were circling on eBay around £55.
But then it suddenly all fizzled out. A few weeks ago Wave was finally opened to the general public but the buzz is inarguably gone.
So what went wrong then?
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
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The massive oil spill off the coast of the USA has inspired a web designer to create a Google Maps version of it. Using the website http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/ you can see the scale of the spill – note that if you centre it on Newcastle, it reaches to Ireland.
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Tags: google, google maps, mashup, oil spill, website
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
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Several news sites are reporting that Google is no longer offering Windows as an operating system choice to it’s new employees, and encouraging existing employees to migrate to a different OS. This shouldn’t be a surprise.
Firstly, Google is releasing it’s own operating system later this year, the Linux-based Google Chrome. Secondly, the languages that are most useful to Google Engineers are not the languages that are the easiest to develop with inside Windows.
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Tags: chrome, google, windows
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
According to a recent study, 57% of US adults have typed their name into a search engine.
The study, which was carried out by Pew Internet & American Life Project, also found that users are becoming increasingly aware of their online reputation.
The growing tendency of Googling yourself (the study concluded a 10% rise from 2006) was something an ad creative Alec Brownstein picked up on while job-hunting.
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Google’s first ever interactive doodle, marking the 30th anniversary of the legendary Pac-Man game, is written entirely in HTML, CSS and Javascript, the Guardian reports.
The search giant’s home page was turned into a fully playable game on Friday with the pizza-shaped Pac-Man making its way around a maze spelling out ‘Google’.
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