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14 Jun 08

This Boring Headline Is Written for Google - New York Times

  • JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web, analyzing and ranking online news articles on behalf of Internet search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
11 Jun 08

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

  • what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

Nick Carr: Is Google making us stupid? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News.com

  • In the the July issue, The Atlantic has an exceptional and provocative article by Nick Carr, asking "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" It's a riff on Carr's book, The Big Switch (reviewed here), but covers new ground and has me worried. Carr writes:



The Evolution From Linear Thought To Networked Thought - Publishing 2.0

  • was thinking last night about books and why I don’t read them anyone — I was a lit major in college, and used to be voracious book reader. What happened?


    I was also thinking about the panel I organized for the O’Reilly TOC conference on Blogs as Books, Books as Blogs — do I do all my reading online because I like blogs better than books now? That doesn’t seem meaningful on the face of it.

What Magazines Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0

  • This time I’m going to pick on The Atlantic, which like the Washington Post is a publication I have a great deal of affection for (published by my former employer Atlantic Media), so this is not a general critique but rather a very specific example representative of a much larger industry-wide problem (i.e. I could find instances of the same problem on virtually any magazine website).
16 May 08

Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden

  • The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around control of user profiles and, therefore, users themselves.
14 May 08

Five Google Android Apps We Love (GOOG) - Silicon Alley Insider

  • We've spent the morning looking at the first batch of Google (GOOG) Android Developer Challenge winners, who competed for cash by developing apps for Google's new mobile OS. We've picked five that we think are especially cool and/or useful.

Where does Google go next? - May. 12, 2008

  • A basic tenet of Google's way of doing business is that it is not like other businesses. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin celebrated this quality in their famous letter to prospective shareholders before the company's 2004 IPO, and they promised to keep things that way. For example, Google's operations themselves are unconventional. One of the most fundamental precepts of modern management has to do with how to allocate resources: deciding which projects to pursue, where to spend money, when to take a pass. In fact, MBAs learn in their first classes at business school that resource allocation is a manager's most important task. Yet it's a concept that, while not exactly alien to Google's top dogs, isn't their highest priority. After all, why focus on allocating scarce resources when the resources aren't all that scarce? At the end of the first quarter Google had cash and other liquid assets of $12 billion; it generates almost $2 billion of cash per quarter.
04 Apr 08

Google's Android work far from finished | One More Thing - CNET News.com



  • It's been nearly six months since Google sent ripples through the mobile phone industry with the announcement of its plans to develop Android, a Linux-based operating system. But after an initial splash, Google has been pretty quiet. So much so, in fact, that several representatives of companies within Google's Open Handset Alliance professed frustration at the ambiguity of some important details at the CTIA 2008 conference this week in Las Vegas.



    Much is still up in the air, just a few months before the first phones are expected to arrive. Google has yet to make crucial decisions about the code base that will accompany Android; such as, which applications are required to make it an Android phone? How will that base be maintained into the future? And how much freedom will Android developers and partners really have to tweak the software?



    Google is aiming high with Android. "Android has two goals: First, to be an excellent mobile platform on its merits, and second, to be open and open source," wrote Dan Morill, a Google engineer, on the Android Internals discussion board last week. But in this new world of advanced mobile computing, those goals can conflict.



    The details of how Google chooses to release Android will make a huge impact on how it is received by the world. And Rich Miner knows it. Miner is in charge of Google's wireless business and along with Andy Rubin co-founded the original Android. He is presiding over a huge development project within Google, as the company works to develop a brand-new mobile operating system using the Linux kernel, code contributed by OHA members and internally developed code.

02 Apr 08

Official Google Docs Blog: Bringing the cloud with you

  • We know that many of you have been waiting for offline access to Google Docs, and I'm happy to tell you we'll be rolling it out over the next few weeks, starting today with a small percentage of users.

    Here's why I'm excited about this development. My migration from the desktop to 'the cloud' started with my Gmail account. I could access my mail from anywhere, search it all in one place, and never need to migrate to a new account. It was great. Then I started using Google Calendar to organize my schedule all in one place.

    So now I find myself with this drive to make my desktop as sparse as possible, both in data and software. I want to move it all into the cloud. There are still times I use my desktop word processor, but I want to minimize context switching between apps. Cloud computing is great, but you need the cloud to make it work. On an airplane, on the shuttle commuting to work, or at home when my cable modem goes down, I want to work on my documents. And, until now, that usually meant saving a copy and editing on the desktop.

    Now there's a better solution. With Google Docs offline (powered by Google Gears), I can take my little piece of the cloud with me wherever I go. Once enabled, I have a local version of my document list and editors, along with my documents.
30 Mar 08

Google and the Wisdom of Clouds

  • A move towards clouds signals a fundamental shift in how we handle information. At the most basic level, it's the computing equivalent of the evolution in electricity a century ago when farms and businesses shut down their own generators and bought power instead from efficient industrial utilities. Google executives had long envisioned and prepared for this change. Cloud computing, with Google's machinery at the very center, fit neatly into the company's grand vision, established a decade ago by founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page: "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible." Bisciglia's idea opened a pathway toward this future. "Maybe he had it in his brain and didn't tell me," Schmidt says. "I didn't realize he was going to try to change the way computer scientists thought about computing. That's a much more ambitious goal."

Wired 14.10: The Information Factories

  • The desktop is dead. Welcome to the Internet cloud, where massive facilities across the globe will store all the data you'll ever use. George Gilder on the dawning of the petabyte age.
10 Mar 08

Shook Labs

  • Creating GeoSyncUp, a new Android Application


    Shook labs is creating a simple to use utility that will allow everyday people to be more efficient in their daily activities. Corporations and other organizations have been realizing the benefit gained from efficient operations. We at Shook Labs are offering the ability for individuals to gain from the advanced technologies and concepts that larger organizations benefit from.


    The algorithms and information required to do this have been available for some time now. We just needed a platform that we could offer them on, we needed a network to connect them on, and we needed devices that could handle the required processing. Google and the Open Handset Alliance are working to meet these needs through the Android platform. Shook Labs’ has identified this opportunity to offer efficiency to everyday people by utilizing the Android platform.


    Stay tuned to ShookLabs.com for more updates.

28 Feb 08

Technology Review: Android Calling

  • Once Google finishes this release, Android is going to look as pretty as the iPhone--and it will be just as functional, if not more so.


29 Nov 07

Google brand of growth takes root in Kendall Sq. - The Boston Globe

28 Nov 07

Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data - WSJ.com

  • Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company's competition with Microsoft Corp.


    Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives -- such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images, say people familiar with the matter. The service could let users access their files via the Internet from different computers and mobile devices when they sign on with a password, and share them online with friends. It could be released as early as a few months from now, one of the people said.


    The Mountain View, Calif., company plans to provide some free storage, with additional storage allotments available for a fee, say the people familiar with the matter. Planned pricing isn't known.


27 Nov 07

Google picks Wise Construction for Cambridge headquarters - Boston Business Journal:

  • Google Inc. selected Wise Construction Corp. to build out its new regional headquarters location in Cambridge, Mass.



    The Boston Business Journal first reported in August that Google (NYSE: GOOG) had agreed to lease as much as 200,000 square feet at Three and Five Cambridge Center in Kendall Square. Wise Construction of Winchester, Mass. was hired to complete the interior renovation of 59,000 square feet on three floors at Five Cambridge Center. The renovation is expected to be finished by February. Wise Construction will work with the Boston-based architecture and interior design firm, Visnick and Caulfield Associates Inc.



    Google is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and currently has a small, 18,000-square-foot office at One Broadway in Cambridge. Google's Cambridge employees work on the Google Books program and video projects related to YouTube. The local office could initially employ about 300 people, according to the BBJ's previous report.



    "Google is the world's most recognized and successful Internet search and online advertising firm," said John Wise, president of Wise Construction, in a statement. "We're very excited to have been chosen by Google for the construction of their regional headquarters in Cambridge and look forward to the development of a highly collaborative work environment that complements the company's innovative strategy."

12 Nov 07

University sues Google over distributed search patent | InfoWorld | News | 2007-11-12 | By James Niccolai, IDG News Service

06 Nov 07

Google's Android has long road ahead | CNET News.com

  • Consumers shouldn't expect Google's new mobile phone software to revolutionize their cell phone experience overnight--or anytime soon.

    On Monday, Google announced Android, a new software platform designed to provide open access to mobile phones for application developers. The company also announced the Open Handset Alliance, a multinational alliance of 34 companies, including several chipmakers, handset manufacturers, and mobile operators that will be working together to develop handsets and services that leverage the new software.



    A software development kit will be introduced next week, and consumers can expect to see the first Android handsets out on the market in the second half of 2008, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during a press conference Monday.

31 Oct 07

Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday

  • Details emerged today on Google’s broad social networking ambitions, first reported here in late September, with a follow up earlier this week. The new project, called OpenSocial (URL will go live on Thursday), goes well beyond what we’ve previously reported. It is a set of common APIs that application developers can use to create applications that work on any social networks (called “hosts”) that choose to participate.


    What they haven’t done is launch yet another social network platform. As more and more of these platforms launch, developers have difficult choices to make. There are costs associated with writing and maintaining applications for these social networks. Most developers will choose one or two platforms and ignore the rest, based on a simple cost/benefit analysis.


    Google wants to create an easy way for developers to create an application that works on all social networks. And if they pull it off, they’ll be in the center, controlling the network.

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