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Official Google Blog In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web.Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partner (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

Submitted by Matthooper from Google Reader: While the recession has been brutal on most technology companies, one venture that has done relatively well is Linden Lab, the parent company of Second Life. When we first interviewed CEO Mark Kingdon in January, he said the company was profitable and growing. Last month, Linden Lab released figures showing increased usage (Read More)

Oct 22, 2009

Official Google Blog Today, we're launching two changes to Google Reader to help you discover more interesting content faster. Just as the launch of Personalized Search improved search results based on your search history, these changes use your Reader Trends to improve your reading experience.Explore section - We're always trying to help you d (Read More)

Oct 22, 2009

TechCrunch After months of negotiations and holding both off at bay, Twitter now has agreements with both Bing and Google to give them access to its full feed of public Tweets. Both search engines have been yearning to drink directly from Twitter’s the realtime firehose of micro-messages and all that they carry. A rudimentary versio (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

MSDN Blogs ​Gartner analysts todayhighlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be important for mostorganisations in 2010. The analysts presented their findings during GartnerSymposium/ITxpo, being held in Orlando, Florida this week.Gartner defines a strategictechnology as one with the potential for significant impact on t (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

The Next Web Today we spent the day at the Techcrunch Europe event, co-hosted by Sun Microsystems at their offices in Munich. Mike Butcher, TechCrunch Europe’s Editor, was on hand to take about 150 attendants through a few presentations and 12 startup pitches.The breakroom had a tweeter wall with live reaction of the attendance –hashtag (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

VentureBeat The capacity to do good with a video game is a fledgling concept. It has been around for a while, but has never been executed in an outstanding way. Zynga, the hot developer of social games on Facebook, is the latest to give it a shot. And the company thinks it has found a way to do a lot of good in a short amount of time w (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

TechCrunch Google CEO Erick Schmidt stated emphatically during Google’s most recent earnings call that “Android adoption is about to explode.” We agree – despite developer hiccups, Android is about to have its moment in the sun. An avalanche of new devices are hitting worldwide markets, and some of them are serious contenders.Our bet (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

Submitted by Matthooper from Google Reader: So we are now two weeks in from when the eastern and southern states adopted Daylight Saving for another year, and the frustrations, delays and inefficiencies have also made their way back into the lives of the majority of South East Queenslanders.South East Queensland businesses that have regular dealings with clients and (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

Beyond Binary Microsoft on Monday is announcing that it will release in November a public test version of Office 2010. The software maker released a limited technology preview of the software in July and plans to release the final version next year. It also started testing of the browser-based "Office Web Apps" in September. Mi (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

TechCrunch Microsoft is making a significant announcement for developers today, upgrading and adding functionality to Visual Studio 2010 to make the product more cloud-friendly in anticipation of Microsoft’s release of commercial cloud platform Azure. Visual Studio is Microsoft’s a development environment that can be used to develop w (Read More)

Oct 18, 2009

TechCrunch Maybe you’ve read some of the stories this past week about how FriendFeed’s traffic is way down following their sale to Facebook. The stats don’t look good, as the site’s traffic may have plummeted as much as 30% following its peak just prior to the sale. But to anyone who has meaningfully used the site since its inception, (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

Submitted by Matthooper from Google Reader: While the recession has been brutal on most technology companies, one venture that has done relatively well is Linden Lab, the parent company of Second Life. When we first interviewed CEO Mark Kingdon back in January, he said the company was profitable and growing. Last month, Linden Lab released figures showing increased u (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

Zoli's Blog Nowadays the only context we hear about Skype is the legal fight (care to bet how long it will take for the previous Net Celebs to become the Hated Greedy Ones who try to sc**w all of us?) – I would much rather read about new features, improvements. After all, Skype is the single most popular voice and video calling appl (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

The Inquisitr The Google Android powered Acer Aspire One just went on pre-order at Amazon. The netbook is one of the first to announce the Android OS and the first we’ve seen go on pre-order.The netbook is available at Amazon.com for $349.99 and includes free shipping. Much like most of the recent notebooks released to the consumer PC ma (Read More)

Matt Hooper

My interests include Social and New Media, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Online Identity, Attention Management, cloud services. Trained musician, linguist.