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BarCamp Seattle: The Father’s Day Edition
Sunday morning and another Seattle bus adventure means arriving once again late for BarCamp Seattle, thankfully, the sessions also got underway a bit later. Today begins (for me) with a discussion on social media design where I promote Pownce’s friend/fan and group pattern (potentially to be added to the new social media repository announced in the session) and will end with, apparently, Diet Coke and Mentos. -
Succeeding against Facebook
Facebook managed avoid ghettoization as YASN this May when it opened its Web site to third-party applications. Essentially, Facebook answered the unasked question of what to do after everyone you once knew are in your network (and you realize you don’t have much in common with your classmates from kindergarten). -
Google News rewards original content
Over the North American long weekend, Google announced a deal it struck four of the top English-language newsfeeds that will see Google News hosting wire stories. -
The Google Office
Looks like Google is partnering with Sun Microsystems to release a browser-accessible version OpenOffice. Is this the return of the network computer? The re-emergence of the GooOS meme? Is this why 37 Signals finally released Writeboard (which is kinda like a wiki and Writely)? -
Good news and bad news for Wikinews
Google offered to share its server-space to ease the hosting and bandwidth demands of Wikimedia, owners and operators of Wikipedia and Wikinews. Greg Linden points out although its not a entirely selfish act, its not evil. John C. Dvorak disagrees, citing the erosion of the Usenet database as an example. The geeks at Slashdot feed the fire.. -
Ask Mozilla
The also-ran search company Ask Jeeves is making some interesting plays lately. First, it bought Bloglines *the Web-based RSS aggregator) and now it’s talking up the Mozilla Foundation. Ask Jeeves has suggested it might donate it’s desktop search product to Mozilla and making it open source; as well there’s talk of building a Ask Jeeves-branded Firefox browser this year. -
What is the GBrowser?
Will they or won’t they? The GBrowser rumour mills are churning again with the CEO Eric Schmidt’s outright denial Google is building a browser. -
Google and you
Google unveils the next front in its advance to ubiquity: the desktop search. -
Google’s desktop search
Did a quick hit about this in my blogmark feed this morning, but I thought it deserved a bit more room, so read my latest rant on Google’s desktop search tool -
Registration pro and con
Registration is a buzzworthy topic these days, and there’s some fresh evidence for and against it. -
It’s a “GOOG” thing
Well I was wrong, Google will be “GOOG” on the Nasdaq, after its IPO — pegged at between between US$2.65-billion and US$3.3-billion based on a proposed price US$108 and US$135 a share -
Google on Nasdaq
Google chooses the Nasdaq, meaning “GOGL” might be the biggest ticker symbol since “NSCP.” -
A public Google
Google’s mantra is to not to be evil, but might that also mean not going public? A cleverly illustrated New York Times piece speculates the company’s co-founders want to keep Google eccentric, and by necessity, private, for as long as possible. That article, and two related pieces, provides a timely reminder both of why the dot-com bust and why the market might not always know best. -
Searching with Amazon
Hmm…searching with Amazon’s A9; interesting dHTML interface (possibly built in part by Scott Andew), too. The John Battelle’s Searchblog broke the news, and there you can find more details. There is also a complete analysis underway at Signal vs. Noise and a Firefox plugin from Steven Garrity -
Google IPO
Boom! Google’s going public, although the search engine is dismissing the idea it will have an IPO in April. Estimates suggest the offering could be the largest yet, valued at US$4-billion with a third of the stock going public. That would value the company at US$12-billion. -
Webstandards.TO mailing list; interviewing Veen; Google’s advanced news search
Emma Jane Hogbin has launched Webstandards.TO’s site and mailing list — all those interested in finding out about meetings should head over. -
Google: any way left but down?
Google has risen to the top, but now faces a troubleseome balancing act. -
Google patents search
Google patents its search technology, and as a result makes public its methodologies. How long will it be before someone starts exploiting the information and spamming the site? -
Google buys Blogger
Big news is already being followed by big worries from Bloggers (“Will the ‘Man’ ruin a good thing”). Me, initial impressions think it’ll be OK, especially if they can match relevant GoogleAds (no doubt replacing pyrAds) with the relevant blogs and leverage the blogosphere to improve Google News. Maybe they’ll buy Salon, too. -
Ranting, or raving, about Google Labs
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Growing Google
Looking at some of the newest offerings and experiments from the search engine with the funny name. -
Google tweaks; link icons
Perhaps in an effort to prevent the news sites practising something like google-bombing, the search engine has tweaked its service. The Register offers a peak behind Google’s curtain. -
More on Google News while Google’s banned in China
There already is professional reaction to Google News. -
Google News relaunches
Google News has relaunched its service, and, as holovaty.com found out in an early preview, it does a pretty good impersonation of a traditional news portal. But this one is created automatically, using Google’s algorithms. -
Google talks
Though nearly impossible to get through right now, this is quite cool: Google is in the early stages of testing a voice-based search system. After phoning up the number, and speaking a search query, the results reportedly appear a Web browser after you click the relevant link. Laying aside the model’s apparent paradox, it could lead to some interesting applications (such as a cellphone-based search service). -
Annotated reading list
Between visiting family and friends for fun, feasts, and festivities my inbox and reading lists have been growing quite large. Here’s an annotated list of what’s on the list: -
A picture is worth just a keyword
Trying out the image search engine at Google. -
Google News Alerts; the myth of perfect Web design; more on the redesign
Google wants to get every last news junkie hooked to Google News, as evidenced by the services’s news alerts. Limit of 50 per customer. (Google has also added a synonym searching — via Simon)