Gooooooogle …. Goooooal!!
I just did a search for “worldcup” on Google to check out the coverage. Besides the 98 million search results, there’s also a simple schedule matches that they show right up top in the results - and that’s not all - when I scrolled to the bottom to go to page two, I spotted the usual Gooooooooogle had been discretely changed.
Seems even Google is really getting into the “gees”. Launching Street View in Google Maps for South Africa (just in time) and also 3D models of the stadiums in Google Earth and a load of other initiatives. Nice.
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New Google Analytics async tracking code is out of Beta
Are you using it yet?
See article » It’s now easy to set up new sites with Asynchronous Tracking
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Well said.
Quality please. Not quantity.
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Woah - nice!!
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Google today unveiled an open-source, royalty-free video format called WebM
Oh boy, the video format wars are going to heat up. H.264 is too costly to licence for the open source brigade but both Apple and Microsoft have backed it.
Please, please lets just settle this for once. This has been ongoing since Betamax vs VHS days. Enough now!
Read more here » Google tries freeing Web video with WebM | Deep Tech - CNET News
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How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
At this stage, the spill covers at least 2500 square miles of ocean surface. But what’s that even mean? How does 2500 square miles compare to say, Gauteng, South Africa?
Well, take a look at this image I created using this website (site needs the Google Earth plug-in). As you can see, the spill is nearly the same size as Gauteng! And growing. Come on BP… get moving! You’ve got some work to do!
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YouTube Launches in South Africa
Says Google, “… we’re excited to launch http://www.youtube.co.za, a South African version of YouTube and our first domain on the continent. The goal here is to give South Africans a way to easily discover local content and content producers. From now on when users in South Africa visit the site, they will see, for example, the most popular and most viewed videos in South Africa along with local content that closely matches their interests.”
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I also heard a rumour that Google has YouTube servers caching local content here in South Africa too. This is great news! It means faster streaming, local bandwidth and an ever-increasing commitment by Google to host their services here in SA.
Their Google Maps Street View for South Africa is about to launch here too!
Official Google Africa Blog: YouTube Launches in South Africa
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Hardly a week goes by without me having to explain to some (usually well-educated) business person just exactly how Google makes money!
Seriously folks, these guys think Google is a weird internet fad thingy that still “doesn’t make any money, because I have never paid them”, or sometimes I get the, “I know Google sells ads, but I never click on them, so I am sure no-one else does” line.
Dammit folks, it no-one else did, where do you think they generated revenue that climbed 23 percent to 6.78 billion dollars!?
Come on guys it’s 2010 already, wakey wakey.
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The new version of Google Docs
It just keeps getting better!
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GMail’s Invite Marketing Coup Was a Myth
“People were selling their souls on the Internet for invites,” said Arielle Reinsten, Product Marketing Manager for GMail, at SXSW Interactive today. “But it wasn’t a marketing idea at all (to offer invites). We were worried about capacity. It was an engineering decision that was seen as marketing.”
Read the full article here » louisgray.com: GMail’s Invite Marketing Coup Was a Myth
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Facebook now the most popular site in the U.S.
Why am I not surprised at all?
Facebook ousts Google as most popular U.S. site | VentureBeat
