January 10th, 2012
This is an excerpt from
an article by Lance Olanoff for Mashable
Now we know Google’s master-plan for integrating Google+ ever more deeply into the Google ecosystem: Pour the whole thing into Google search. Starting today, Google+ members, and to a lesser extent others who are signed into Google, will be able to search against both the broader web and their own Google+ social graph. That’s right; Google+ ...
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October 31st, 2011
By Rik Myslewski for The Republic
Google has announced a major upgrade to a product that has fallen flat on its Googly face: Google TV.
"The initial version of Google TV wasn't perfect, but launching it gave us the opportunity to learn," Google's VP of product management Mario Queiroz and director of engineering Vincent Dureau co-wrote in a blog post on Friday.
"These are still early days," they added, "and we're working hard to move forward with each update." Early, of course, is a debatable term: Google TV was unveiled on March 20, 2010.
But we have no reason ...
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June 30th, 2011
Online search leader Google Inc. is taking yet another stab at social networking, as it tries to go up against Facebook in this wildly popular and lucrative segment of the internet.
This time the project is called Google+ and it aims to make online sharing more like real life.
"We think people communicate in very rich ways," said Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of engineering at Google. "The online tools we have to choose from give us very rigid services."
Other social networking tools make selective sharing within small groups difficult. They don't ...
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June 22nd, 2010
In the aftermath of much-publicized breaches by heavyweights Google, Facebook, and AT&T, among others, attendees of the annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference spent last week creating a Users' Bill of Rights that is now available for public consumption, feedback, and approval.
The 14-point bill is available for comment on Facebook and Twitter. It was adopted unanimously, save for one dissent on data portability, during a vote at the twentieth annual event, held in San Jose, Calif.
Before presenting the 14 points, the elements were circulated for comments, drafted, and redrafted, ...
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June 24th, 2008
YouTube. Google. Facebook. All of these channels are seriously underexploited by many entertainment companies, given that there are a number of simple things that content creators can do right now to capitalize on each.
With YouTube it is important that producers don’t just upload content and wait for hits. YouTube provides a number of strategies and tactics to drive traffic to your content; it is baffling that most producers don’t follow these guidelines.
Google ads generate real dollars with targeted advertising; it is amazing how many high traffic sites don’t host Google ...
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