Posted by bordalix Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:49:00 GMT
Google announced today the voice and video chat for Gmail. To make this work, users have to install a small browser plugin. Google will start enabling these new features for all Gmail and Google Apps today, and as is typical for new releases in Gmail, Google will roll this feature out to all users over the "next day or so". Is this the final nail on Skype's coffin?
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Posted by bordalix Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:30:00 GMT
Update: Google's has changed the Terms of Service for Chrome.
Everyone is talking about the new Google's browser, coined Chrome. and the idea of launching a comic book to explain the advantages of Chrome a day before the launch is absolutely brilliant, and surely must be responsible for some of the hype generated along.
Since there is no Mac version available yet, I still haven't try it, but after reading some posts today, I'm glad I haven't:
In summary, I will wait for the version 1.1 of the browser, and for a change in the Terms of Service before trying it.
Posted by bordalix Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:24:00 GMT
It seems Google is doing some experiments with theirs main product, the web search. Imagine adding Digg's functionalities to Google's web search results and voila, you get what can be seen as the future of web search:
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Posted by bordalix Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:53:00 GMT
It's out, it's free (at least for now), and it's a serious competitor to Amazon Web Services, with a more turn-key solution:
Google is offering to host your entire web app, not just the storage. It lets you use Google Checkout for commerce and Google Accounts for user accounts.
Via John Gruber.
Posted by bordalix Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:14:00 GMT
A new service from Google, this time used from your phone. Watch the video below to see the simplicity and power of 1-800-GOOG-411:
It looks like 2008 will be the year of the phone.
Posted by bordalix Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:37:00 GMT
Finally, Google responded to Yahoo's acquisition of del.icio.us by developing his own service, named Google Shared Stuff. The service looks crappy, but I think that's because the lack of users in the system. Being a kind of service heavily dependent on the network effect, it will take a while for the service to bloom and flourish. I'm willing to try it, since del.icio.us is getting slower and slower search results.Posted by bordalix Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:43:00 GMT
Google's motto is and always has been "Don't be evil". Are they planning to change it?
Posted by bordalix Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:05:00 GMT
A great snoop from 45n5, a video with Google advertising in YouTube movies. The system is pretty smooth, the ads are not that intrusive, and the interactivity allowed amazing (be able to link an ad to a movie, and make that movie run over the YouTube movie is great):
Meanwhile, eMarketer expects online video advertising to nearly double in 2008 to $1.3 billion USD, and TechCrunch posted an excelent article, with a round up of the possible players in this market, worth reading.
Great times are expected in a near future.
Posted by bordalix Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:17:00 GMT
Do you need to travel from Oporto, Portugal, to New York? Don't want to spend a lot of money on this trip? Well, try this: point your browser to maps.google.com, click on "Get directions" and write "Oporto" to "New York". On the left side of the search results, notice step 51.
Please don't try this trip if you didn't eat your cereals in the morning.
Posted by bordalix Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:00:00 GMT
When everyone is talking about the new Google AdWords TV ads trial, Ozan Halici and Jurgen Mayer from the University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Germany, released the movie "Master Plan, about the power of Google".
Even though I don't agree with everything stated in the movie, it is a very well done movie, so I decided to post it in my blog. The graphics are astonishing, take a look:
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