I was 9 years old when “Pakkuman”, or Pac-man as most of us know it, was first released in Japan on May 22, 1980 by Namco. And to celebrate this landmark you can head over to google.com for a fully playable version of the most famous video game in the world. [...]
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When I wrote about the “Live Web” being integrated with search results the excitement was that Google was now able to serve up Twitter, Facebook and News articles in real-time as part of your search results – sort the same as a stock ticker would as trades are made. This Live Web offering was captivating because you were watching other people’s opinions pop up before your eyes as they wrote them. But Social Search is far more important because the contributions are from peers or services you know and because you control who is in and out this enhancement has so many legs to it. [...] Waking up this morning I heard the news about Brittany Murphy’s passing so I went and “googled” it and sure enough the search confirmed the story. But as I scanned through the numerous results I saw a new window embedded in the page I had not noticed before which was continuously scrolling with updates. The Brittany Murphy story was breaking before my eyes via a “dynamic stream” of real-time content from such sites as Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Identi.ca and of course Twitter. This was not static content – this was news and opinions as it happened… [...] One of the points that caught my attention was when the discussion turned to the talk of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation looking into how they charge for content on the web…not just to the consumer but also to the news aggregators such as Google & Yahoo. This caught my interest because other than publications like the Wall Street Journal most newspaper publications on the internet are free. Subscription models, unless attached to a specialty publication such as the Wall Street Journal, general don’t tend to work and we have seen numerous attempts at it in the past. [...] Can I qualify before we go any further Maria Belen Chapur is not dead… That point cleared up – the question is how amazing it is the way we consume media now we have the Internet. Let me be clear – it is all very sad. Finally years of physical, mental and perscription drug [...] News just out is that Google Apps is now an Exchange-replacement and users can even keep Outlook… It appears that on Tuesday Google announced a new feature of Google Apps for its enterprise customers that allows users to sync their mail, calendar, and contacts with Microsoft Outlook. Bottom line is this enables Google [...] |
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