I've been thinking, if those hassles between Google and Rupert Murdoch and Bing end up with the de-index of News Corps from Google, then it will hurts News Corps badly. Everyone with a business orientation shall see this as business opportunity.
Murdoch's move is bad already, since many will think the same way as me. Innovate Murdoch, not remove yourself from the internet. That's not the way in internet.
The search buttons have become blue and the overall look is a bit like that of Google Wave. More significant is the redesigned search results page which features an always-on sidebar for narrowing search results by type, date and view.
Excerpt from webmonkey.com. It seems that Google is always launching something every month before end of Y09. It's good at the innovation point but Google need to make sure that the innovation is really going somewhere and not simply use it as a market test and let it die slowly.
Chrome OS is being positioned as a solution for users' secondary machines, offering a speedy, browser-based operating system consisting of Web apps and cloud-based data storage. The focus on speed begins at the top, with boot times currently clocking in at approximately 7 seconds
Excerpt from MacRumors. Image is from MacRumors. So, everyone is moving to the cloud.
I think this has been around for sometime, but nevertheless I just found out the SafeSearch feature this morning.
The Lock SafeSearch will apply strict filtering to all searches from the computer using your default browser. Strict filtering filters both explicit text and explicit images from your search results. This will ease your life, especially when your family is using the same computer. The feature can be enabled from the Search Settings on the top-right corner. To indicate that SafeSearch is locked for this browser we've added colored balls to the top of all search pages. If the colored balls are not present, then SafeSearch is no longer locked.
Should you happen to be one of those people, we’ve got a number of different resources that you can use to get up to speed with Google Wave. This time around, however, we wanted to look at how people are actually using it now. From process modelling and customer service, to project collaboration, annotation, and gaming, the examples listed here highlight the power of the newborn medium, and in part, showcase what we can expect as the platform matures.
Excerpt from Mashable. I, myself, think that collaboration is the ultimate power since managing huge project can't be done by a single person or even a single team. Cross-function, cross-platform, and different time zone are challanges that we have to deal during the course of the project - this is where a collaboration tools is required.
Oh yeah, I'm still standing out there waiting for the invitation. :)
As I’m sure you know, we generally don’t comment about timelines for releasing specific features or products. But we’ve been quoted a few times saying Chrome for mac should be out by the end of the year
Excerpt from Techcrunch. I've been playing with Chrome several days and impressed with the speed and its clean look. However, the "top site" (what do you call top site of Safari in Chrome?) is not updating its thumbnail like the way of Safari does. And it's quite iritating my eyes.
When you’re a huge web company, and you choose a name for something as important as a new programming language, you should take great care to investigate whether the name is already taken
Apparently, Google didn’t do that. Whether it's intentionally or merely careless, I can tell you that finding a name can be difficult. And I'm trying to find a name for my second daughter.
Twitter hashtags – adding the conference name as a hashtag on a tweet – aren’t an ideal solution to tracking a conference
Excerpt from Mashable. Personally I have no comment on this comparison matter because I don't have Google Wave account. But, in my opinion, Twitter doesn't provide easy way to follow a conference chat for a limited group. I, most of the time, lost in world of tweets when try to connect all chat into single and complete chats.
Fast! That's my first impression of Google Chrome for Mac. Though it's still in developer preview, I'm beginning to love this browser for its speed. Its clean look can be compared to Safari. However, I get lost several time when try to find a specific tab due to the lack of header on top.