Google Tightens Bond With Indian VCs
Aside from the U.S., I’d say that India is probably Google’s favorite country. Now Google’s showing it an extra bit of love by investing in two venture capital funds.
Beijing Halts Sale Of Olympic Tickets
Ticket sales for next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing were temporarily suspended Tuesday for a week after the ticketing system crashed due to heavy demand by Chinese sports fans.
Google’s Internal Tool to Check Results?
French Google blog Zorgloob has what they say are screenshots from a Google employee showing a certain “GG Score" value in action.
Casual Gaming: An Untapped Market
At the first of the year, I wondered if 2007 or 2008 would be the year of the online game.
2007 is nearly gone, and not a peep out of anybody except the Casual Games Association, which says 150 million people play free, casual games online, outpacing game consoles, first-person shooter games, and massively multiplayer games.
Let Google Know Your Site’s Geographical Location
If your site is location-specific (www.abcdef.es) then it really isn’t a problem but if your domain ended with a .com or a .net or a .org then it is hard for search engines to know your location. Now, ex-Googler Vanessa Fox has post which tells everyone how to Let Google Know The Geographic Location of Your Site.
Google Announces API Connecter For Social Networks
Google has decided that when it comes to Facebook, if you can’t beat ‘em, API ‘em. Google’s OpenSocial, which will launch at code.google.com/apis/opensocial tomorrow, will be a set of APIs that developers can use to create applications that work on any participating social network. Google’s goal is to create an open layer that runs atop all social networks, diminishing the power of all the networks in the process.
Best Buy Launches Paid Video Service
Best Buy has launched an online video sharing service that lets users store and share home movies on the Web.
Google Checkout & Gmail Updates
I was browsing through the Google Blogs using my Yahoo Pipe and noticed that there have been a couple pieces of cool news item floating around at the the Gmail and Google Checkout blogs.
Free (and Paid) Press Release Distribution Services
I spend a fair amount of time talking with small and medium sized business owners about their web marketing. Often times these individuals aren’t ready to shoulder the costs associated with true goal-oriented web design, SEO, or PPC, so the conversation turns to, “what can I be doing in the meantime?”
Aside from blogging, posting on forums, and keeping their site content fresh, I always talk about online PR. Most of the time the people I’m conversing with have no idea that you can freely or cheaply distribute press releases online.
Texting Is Way To China’s Heart
Google China’s Kai-Fu Lee hinted at this on Monday, and a new article would appear to confirm the fact: if Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft want to succeed in China, they’ll need to master the mobile market.