One old-media journalist thinks it’s time to unleash a brigade of Louis Vuitton-bearing lawyers on Google to stop them from stealing from newspapers.
Google Street View Privacy Concerns Commence
Google saw someone’s cat – and so it begins. Earlier this week, the search engine giant released Street View, a Google Maps feature that allows users to see things from the perspective of a person driving down a public road. Now privacy concerns are beginning to mount.
Google To Grow In Boston, Chicago
Most Google-related products, services, and announcements come out of Mountain View, but Googlers in Boston and Chicago are now grabbing some headlines of their own; the company’s locations in both cities are primed for some serious growth.
Google Checkout Migrates To Mobiles
I occasionally use my cell phone to talk, and on still rarer occasions, to snap a photo. It mostly serves as a pocket-born paperweight. But for those of you who are a little more in touch with the mobile market, Google has just the thing: Google Checkout for mobile.
Inside Google’s Gears
So, what did Google just do with its introduction of “Gears?”
Setup its suite of office applications to go offline. Oh, and everyone else’s too.
Zojo? ConceptShare? Zimbra?
All will be able to go offline soon if their developers adopt Google’s Gears.
A Google Buffet
I have been able to take some more time and mess around with Google’s Universal Search over the long holiday weekend, and I really like the direction.
Google Picks Up Panoramio
Panoramio has worked hand in hand with Google for a long time, but, on Wednesday evening, the relationship became more of a hand within hand sort of thing as Google acquired the company.
Google Gears Grind Out Web Apps
Google announced an open source browser extension that enables web applications to run offline.
Webcasts from Google Developer Day
As you may know, tomorrow (May 31st 2007) Google will hold a developer day in different locations around the world. If you can’t make it, you can watch the developer day webcasts for Mountain View and London – and if you do make it, please add your photos and other impressions in the forum thread.
According to a Google press release, the webcasts will include:
Google, Facebook Emerge As Winners In Britain
In some markets, Google is getting trounced. Take China and South Korea, for instance: the big guy just can’t win. In other regions, Google continues to reign supreme, and the latest numbers from comScore confirm that Britain is willing to crown Google as king of the search engines. Social networks also fared well in the UK.