Boing Boing:
Microsoft is ready to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to remove its news content from Google, according to the Financial Times. Microsoft has also approached other "big online publishers" with similar deals. "One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan 'puts enormous value on content if search engines a (Read More)
: analysis of this to date has been terrible. the real possible story here: the web of the right wing and international markets and the web of everyone else. The potential for this rests in the hands of a company which has historically profited strongly from business strategies predicated on asymmetrical information markets, and this move would, for the short term, until it destroyed western democracy or was made illegal, instantiate asymmetrical information markets to the extent that we will again kill our own family members.
TechCrunch:
We had a great interview with Twitter COO Dick Costolo at the Real-Time CrunchUp on Friday. Costolo always gives the audience a few good nuggets of news and handles the more difficult questions with ease. He’s a pro.After the conference I reviewed some of the backstage footage we shot of Costolo before he went on stage for (Read More)
AndroidGuys:
Vibrate During Meetings (VDM) is a clever, yet simple widget that will automatically change your phone settings to put your phone into vibrate mode. Now I know there are plenty of these “change your phone settings” apps on the market that do the same thing, however VDM has one special thing going for it that other apps of (Read More)
: Poeple wont start to use Bing just so they can access those news. Who cares? And Microsoft, telling other companies to remove themselves from Google. Microsoft...you make me sick. I hope that Murdoch will loose alot of money on this, and that people don't "migrate" to Bing.
TechCrunch:
Now that we’ve all actually seen Chrome OS, the immediate reaction that most are jumping to is that it won’t be killing Windows anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean it won’t hurt Microsoft, and apply long-term pressure to the dominant OS. In fact, Google’s positioning for Chrome OS reads like a page out of Apple’s playbook, (Read More)
AndroidGuys:
Last week, Google unveiled a bit more on the ChromeOS initiativie, including source code. Some people already have it running on netbooks, even though commercial devices running ChromeOS are not due out until 2010.As usual, there was a round of questions as to where Android ends and where ChromeOS begins. No other than Serg (Read More)
Submitted by Antonella
from Google Reader:
Another expansion for Spotify, the much-hyped European streaming music service: It’s now going to be available on Nokia (NOK) phones and other handsets that run the Symbian platform. That’s good, because the service is supposed to work best as a mobile play.But Spotify has yet to make a key expansion: To the U.S., where the (Read More)
Submitted by Stewbagz
from blog:
Google Today Held A Preview Event For Chrome Os The Company'S Forthcoming Browser-Based Operating System Scheduled To Launch Initially On N
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Submitted by Crenk
from blog:
Google Wave has taken the online Google community by storm. For many months there was teasing from Google on the development of a collaboration tool that would tie into all of their existing Google Apps, and revolutionize how we communicate with our colleagues, community, and groups. The release of Google Wave was nothing l (Read More)
Submitted by Vitamincm
from blog:
Site Specific Browsers Put Web Apps on Your Desktop OVERVIEW: You will learn how to turn your favorite web applications into standalone desktop applications using site specific browser tools. What Is a Site Specific Browser? A Site Specific Browser (SSB) is is an application with an embedded browser designed to work excl (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
To accommodate the ever-increasing desire for startups and corporations to reach out to their audience and discover more about them, site analytics tools are evolving to showcase much more about the types of people that visit their online properties and how they interact with their content – and each other.One such evolutio (Read More)
SitePoint Blogs:
Finding the tools you need when you first start a new business can be difficult, but luckily there are more and more web applications to ease some of that pain. You can take care of just about any challenge from designing your logo to even answering the phone … yes, via the Web. No longer are you shackled by what your local (Read More)