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Google Is Keeping Chrome OS Simple. Maybe Too Simple.

  • Rather than support Android apps and other sorts of apps, there is only one kind of app Google is interested in: the Web app. Chrome OS is all about making Web apps the only apps you will ever need. Which kind of makes you wonder how long we’ll need Android apps, or iPhone apps for that matter, because you know it is only a matter of time before a phone comes out running on Chrome OS.

Live From Google’s Chrome OS Event

  • This includes a full product rundown and details about the formal launch, which is expected to occur early next year.
  • We aren’t launching it today and not beta today. But we’ve made progress. As of today the code will be completely open. We’re excited to announce this.
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19 Nov 09

The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon

  • There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.
21 Aug 09

Andy Kessler: Why AT&T Killed Google Voice - WSJ.com

  • Apple has an exclusive deal with AT&T in the U.S., stirring up rumors that AT&T was the one behind Apple rejecting Google Voice. How could AT&T not object? AT&T clings to the old business of charging for voice calls in minutes. It takes not much more than 10 kilobits per second of data to handle voice. In a world of megabit per-second connections, that's nothing—hence Google's proposal to offer voice calls for no cost and heap on features galore.
  • Wireless data service is AT&T's only bright spot, up a whopping 26% per customer. How so? As any parent of teenagers knows, text messages are 20 cents each, or $5,000 per megabyte. After the first month and a $320 bill, we all pony up $10 a month for unlimited texting plans. Same for Internet access. With my iPhone, I pay $30 a month for unlimited data service (actually, one gigabyte per month). Is it worth that? The à la carte price for other not-so-smart phones is $5 per megabyte (one-thousandth of a gigabyte) per month. So we buy monthly plans. Margins in AT&T's Wireless segment are an embarrassingly high 25%.
23 Jul 09

Google Docs, Slowly Morphing into Google Drive

  • At some point in the near future, Google Docs will allow you to upload any type of files. Some of the files can be edited, other files can be previewed online, while the rest of them are only stored online. For example, PDF files can't be edited online, but you can view them and share them.
05 Jul 09

Developer's Guide: The Protocol - Google Documents List Data API - Google Code

    • To update an existing document, first you retrieve the document you want to update, then you modify it as desired, and then you send a PUT request to either the edit link or the edit-media link, depending on what is to be updated.



      You can update any of the following:


      • The document's metadata
      • The document's contents
      • Both metadata and contents at once (using a MIME multipart request)
  • The new document contents, which form part of the MIME multipart request, must have a content-type for which conversion is supported--for instance, to update a Google Docs document with new content, it could have content-type application/msword, or content-type text/plain, but not content-type application/vnd.ms-excel. When updating a Google Docs spreadsheet, however, content-type application/vnd.ms-excel would be appropriate. Content-types which are not supported by the document type being updated will result in an HTTP 400 Bad Request response.
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10 May 09

GoogleTalk Architecture | High Scalability

  • Measure the right thing.

    - People ask about how many IMs do you deliver or how many active users. Turns out not to be the right engineering question.

    - Hard part of IM is how to show correct present to all connected users because growth is non-linear: ConnectedUsers * BuddyListSize * OnlineStateChanges

    - A linear user grown can mean a very non-linear server growth which requires serving many billions of presence packets per day.

    - Have a large number friends and presence explodes. The number IMs not that

    big of deal.
16 Jan 09

Google Axes Unpopular Applications

"Google announced it will stop supporting several Web-based services, including Google Video, Google Notebook and Dodgeball.com" I suppose SearchWiki replaces notebook (to some degree), but the loss of notebook really threw Ken Shelton for a loop before his Google presentation at CLHS today.

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08 Jan 09

Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page

  • We built a business on the opposite message. We want you to come
    to Google and quickly find what you want. Then we're happy to send
    you to the other sites. In fact, that's the point. The portal
    strategy tries to own all of the information.
  • We had the opportunity to invest
    in 100 or more companies and didn't invest in any of them. I guess
    we lost a lot of money in the short term -- but not in the long
    term.
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05 Dec 08

Google Friend Connect Now Open To All Websites

  • Google FriendConnect is a very important project, and I think many people miss its significance because they don’t fully understand how it works (including the coverage in this blog post, for instance). FriendConnect provides the “Open Stack in a box” to the long-tail of the web–under the hood, it lets any site instantly become an OpenID relying party (something TC has often urged for more of), an OAuth consumer, and an OpenSocial container (meaning they can also now add any 3rd-party OpenSocial gadgets). This will, I believe, have a dramatic impact on the rate at which these open building blocks gain widespread adoption, and ironically it will let the smaller sites leapfrog the larger sites in terms of technical capabilities, because Google is essentially hosting and proxying all of the work needed to support the Open Stack. And Google is going out of their way to provide this functionality in a way that doesn’t give them an unfair advantage–for instance, any FriendConnect user can hook up their Plaxo account, bring in their profile and address book, and share activity back into Pulse, because we support those open standards too. So in conclusion, there’s a lot more to FriendConnect than “OpenSocial’s answer to Facebook”, and anyone who’s a fan of OpenID, OAuth, Portable Contacts, etc., this is definitely something to cheer for.
02 Dec 08

SitePoint » Google’s Operating System Arrives - But Not From Google

  • Google has long been rumored to be working on an operating system to compete
    with Microsoft’s Windows. When they launched their browser product, Chrome, in
    September, we
    noted     that it essentially was Google’s operating system — a UI for
    the OS that the web is becoming. “If the web is the operating system of the
    future, as
  • Now, tiny Emeryville, California-based Good OS, has taken the browser-as-OS idea
    a bit further with the announcement of their latest operating system, dubbed “Cloud.” Good OS is most famous for
    the gOS, a Linux distribution that debuted last year on the Everex gPC, a $199
    computer sold at Wal-Mart. gOS is a slimmed down version of Linux that is made
    to specifically play nice with web applications and web-centric apps like Google
    Calendar, Docs, Gmail, Skype, YouTube, and Firefox
31 Oct 08

OpenID for Google Apps - Account Authentication API - Google Code

  • Add attribute exchange to the authentication requests.
    (Optional)

    Include the attribute exchange parameters to authentication requests to get the user's email address as well as their login ID.


    When including the attribute exchange parameters in an authentication request, keep in mind that the parameter names do not need to match those defined by Google. OpenID libraries construct requests using their own names. Google uses the namespace alias ext1 for these parameters but you can specify any alias you choose (openid.ns.<alias>). The critical issue is that the values of these parameters be set to the strings specified in the API reference.

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