My Dinner With Google
I drove from San Francisco down to Mountain View last night to attend a dinner with members of the Google Apps and Google Enterprise teams.
I rented a Zip Car for the occasion, since my car wasn't available and public transport wasn't an option. The car was a Cooper Mini. It's a fun little car. It had XM Radio and I have to say I was impressed with the sound quality. But I digress.
Google 'Bombs' Defused
Concerned about perceptions of bias, Google engineers write an algorithm that minimizes manipulation by pranksters.
Google Defuses Googlebombs
Notable victims of Googlebombing have included George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Tony Blair, Rick Santorum, and John Kerry, to name a few.
Users Bash New Google Groups
The discussion service sheds its "beta" status with a look and feel of Gmail and therein lies the problem for an irate few.
Google May Get Game
If Adscape Media is acquired, expect to see more in-game ads take a slice of the industry's expected $732 million in ad dollars by 2010.
MySpace Lawsuits Called Losers
Four families are suing MySpace for failing to prevent adults from contacting and subsequently sexually assaulting their daughters.
The lawsuits charge MySpace and parent company News Corp. with negligence, gross negligence, fraud, fraud by nondisclosure, and negligent misrepresentation.
As InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves reports, the assaults occurred in late 2005 and early 2006. Auth
Yahoo Finance Gets Personal
The company courts consumers and advertisers to compete better against rivals MSN Money, AOL Money & Finance, Dow Jones, and CNN.
TSA To Clean Up "No Fly List"
The Senate reviews the agency's plans to cut the list in half by February and avoid misidentifying citizens as terrorists.
Google And Yahoo Gain Search Share
Microsoft saw its U.S. search share slip half a percentage point from 11% to 10.5%, despite its ongoing effort to win more of the online search market.
Adobe Updates RoboHelp
RoboHelp 6 has been designed to facilitate the creation of help systems, knowledge bases, and various kinds of documentation for computer desktop environments.
Google SketchUp Gets Upgraded
Google SketchUp 6 includes a new feature called Photo Match that adds the ability to create a 3D model from a 2D photo.
Counting Down To June For The iPhone
It's going to be a long wait until June.
That's when Apple says it will release its newly announced iPhone.
But it may be July or later before I actually get one (or two, since I assume my wife will want one). Given the universal praise I've been hearing for the device, I suspect they may be hard to get ahold of initially.
Keywords And Metatags Don't Infringe Trademarks
In a recent blog post, law professor Eric Goldman noted that a ruling in J.G. Wentworth SSC Ltd v. Settlement Funding LLC reinforces other judicial opinions that using trademarked terms as keywords and metatags does not constitute a trademark violation.
The plaintiff in the case, J.G. Wentwor
Sony Ties TVs To The Net
Sony Electronics said its new line of Internet-ready televisions has been designed to receive Internet video content from providers including AOL and Yahoo.
NewsTrust Aims To Go Deeper Than Digg
The site is looking to judge news articles online by quality, rather than simple popularity, with a more finely grained evaluation of news stories than one gets from the gladiatorial thumbs-up, thumbs-down votes by which stories live and die on Digg.
Google Search Appliance Gets New Technology
Google updates its top-tier enterprise search hardware with several new capabilities designed to appeal to corporate users, including search results clustering and administrative source biasing.
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My Dinner With Google
I drove from San Francisco down to Mountain View last night to attend a dinner with members of the Google Apps and Google Enterprise teams.
I rented a Zip Car for the occasion, since my car wasn't available and public transport wasn't an option. The car was a Cooper Mini. It's a fun little car. It had XM Radio and I have to say I was impressed with the sound quality. But I digress.
Google 'Bombs' Defused
Concerned about perceptions of bias, Google engineers write an algorithm that minimizes manipulation by pranksters.
Google Defuses Googlebombs
Notable victims of Googlebombing have included George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Tony Blair, Rick Santorum, and John Kerry, to name a few.
Users Bash New Google Groups
The discussion service sheds its "beta" status with a look and feel of Gmail and therein lies the problem for an irate few.
Google May Get Game
If Adscape Media is acquired, expect to see more in-game ads take a slice of the industry's expected $732 million in ad dollars by 2010.
MySpace Lawsuits Called Losers
Four families are suing MySpace for failing to prevent adults from contacting and subsequently sexually assaulting their daughters.
The lawsuits charge MySpace and parent company News Corp. with negligence, gross negligence, fraud, fraud by nondisclosure, and negligent misrepresentation.
As InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves reports, the assaults occurred in late 2005 and early 2006. Auth
Yahoo Finance Gets Personal
The company courts consumers and advertisers to compete better against rivals MSN Money, AOL Money & Finance, Dow Jones, and CNN.
TSA To Clean Up "No Fly List"
The Senate reviews the agency's plans to cut the list in half by February and avoid misidentifying citizens as terrorists.
Google And Yahoo Gain Search Share
Microsoft saw its U.S. search share slip half a percentage point from 11% to 10.5%, despite its ongoing effort to win more of the online search market.
Adobe Updates RoboHelp
RoboHelp 6 has been designed to facilitate the creation of help systems, knowledge bases, and various kinds of documentation for computer desktop environments.
Google SketchUp Gets Upgraded
Google SketchUp 6 includes a new feature called Photo Match that adds the ability to create a 3D model from a 2D photo.
Counting Down To June For The iPhone
It's going to be a long wait until June.
That's when Apple says it will release its newly announced iPhone.
But it may be July or later before I actually get one (or two, since I assume my wife will want one). Given the universal praise I've been hearing for the device, I suspect they may be hard to get ahold of initially.
Keywords And Metatags Don't Infringe Trademarks
In a recent blog post, law professor Eric Goldman noted that a ruling in J.G. Wentworth SSC Ltd v. Settlement Funding LLC reinforces other judicial opinions that using trademarked terms as keywords and metatags does not constitute a trademark violation.
The plaintiff in the case, J.G. Wentwor
Sony Ties TVs To The Net
Sony Electronics said its new line of Internet-ready televisions has been designed to receive Internet video content from providers including AOL and Yahoo.
NewsTrust Aims To Go Deeper Than Digg
The site is looking to judge news articles online by quality, rather than simple popularity, with a more finely grained evaluation of news stories than one gets from the gladiatorial thumbs-up, thumbs-down votes by which stories live and die on Digg.
Google Search Appliance Gets New Technology
Google updates its top-tier enterprise search hardware with several new capabilities designed to appeal to corporate users, including search results clustering and administrative source biasing.
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