Google Fusion Tables – Make Your Mashups Come Alive

Posted on December 30, 2009 by dsarna

A product launched recently in Google Labs, Fusion Tables is a free service for sharing and visualizing data online. It allows you to upload data, share and mark up your data with collaborators, merge data from multiple tables, and create visualizations like charts and maps.” “A well-chosen visualization can bring the data to life. Fusion [...]

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin Named “Smartest of Decade”

Posted on December 27, 2009 by dsarna

Karen Hawthorne says, “No question: Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to create a search tool that would find the most relevant Web page first. If someone typed in “New York Yankees,” for example, the official Yankees site would be the first result returned. Their algorithm, created back in their dorm days at [...]

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Google Eyes Trulia, Yelp, and More

Posted on December 23, 2009 by dsarna

Kara Swisher wrote in “Boom Town,” her column in D | All Things Digital., that Google has been eyeing Trulia, a real estate search site, and competitor to Zillow.  (Hat tip tp to Barbara Occhiogrosso, a talented designer [info@bluevioletdesign.com] for drawing this to my attention). Trulia’s valuation is said to be between $150 million and $200 million. [...]

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Google Heavily Promoting Chrome in London

Posted on December 19, 2009 by dsarna

Google, not known for much promotion to the general public is heavily promoting Google Chrome in London. As reported in the Google Operating System Blog, and reported by the London Daily Mirror, a giant calendar is projected onto the wall of a shopping centre in London. Here’s the video.

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Google and Apple in Lively Coopetition

Posted on December 11, 2009 by dsarna

After years or cooperation and little overlap, Google and Apple are regularly encroaching on each other’s turf. The Wall Street Journal in a lead article points out the areas of overlap, summarized in this diagram: For a long time, both companies seem to have followed Abraham’s advice to Lot: “If you go left; I’ll go [...]

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Google Search Gets Personal

Posted on December 5, 2009 by dsarna

After testing if for a while on an opt-in basis, Google has now made search personalization the default. Here is the official announcement. Personalize Search is described here. The video explains it well. Search Engine Land has a fine description of how it works. He also writes, “The short story is this. By watching what [...]

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Google Buys AppJet for Word Processing Collaboration and Teracent to Beef Up Display Ads

Posted on December 5, 2009 by dsarna

Google is on an acqusition roll. After buying DoubleClick in 2007, Google has recently acquired AdMob which targets mobile advertising. It boughtTeracent, a San Mateo, California startup. Teracent’s technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time — tweaking images, products, messages or colors. These elements can [...]

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Google Introduces Public DNS Resolver

Posted on December 4, 2009 by dsarna

In a blog post, Google announced Google Public DNS, a new experimental public DNS resolver, as part of an effort to make the web go faster. We use the Web by typing “friendly” and memorable Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), such as “www.googlegazer.com”; these need to be translated to the IP address for the server that [...]

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Google Dumps Gears for HTML5 Says ReadWriteWeb

Posted on December 4, 2009 by dsarna

Jolie O’Dell writes in ReadWriteWeb: “It’s official: Google is ditching its homegrown Gears offline web app API in favor of backing HTML5 for the win. Now that the Chrome browser is becoming available for Mac, and the Snow Leopard OS doesn’t play nicely with Gears, a Google rep confirmed the company has decided to trash [...]

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