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Google Blogoscoped: Google the Movie Coming?
According to Deadline...The founders of Facebook aren’t the only game-changing geeks poised to have their story told on a movie screen. Michael London’s Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights to th...
Dateline: 2010-08-21 2:01am -07:00T (181 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Virus Game Attachments, Or Whatever It Is
Do these things have a name, and what do they typically do? Gmail is chronically bad at filtering them out (or perhaps they do filter out many but there’s just too much of them). They usually come with an image attached, and as you can see in this c...
Dateline: 2010-08-18 8:01pm -07:00T (72 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: German Guy Wants to Photograph Those Buildings People Want to Exclude from Google Street View
Spiegel reports that German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take snapshots of all those (German) buildings which people asked Google Street View to remove. He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordinates...
Dateline: 2010-08-18 8:01pm -07:00T (181 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google CEO Believes That in the Future, We May Be Automatically Allowed to Change Our Names to Escape Online Past
Eric Schmidt talked to the Wall Street Journal:“I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,” he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young ...
Dateline: 2010-08-18 8:01pm -07:00T (124 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Free Sounds
Looking for free sounds for a project of yours... say, atmospheric background noises, or a dog barking, or laughter, piano music, a squeaking door, or anything else? FreeSounds.org is a great collection of Creative Commons licensed WAVs, MP3, AIFF files a...
Dateline: 2010-08-18 5:16am -07:00T (98 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Android Developers Lose Money Because Apps Can't Be Bought In Most Countries, Pingdom Says
Pingdom writes:Google is talking about fighting piracy, but perhaps the first thing they should focus on is actually making it possible for users to buy apps. All users. Sounds rather logical, doesn’t it? So what are we talking about? The problem lies w...
Dateline: 2010-08-17 10:31am -07:00T (152 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google's "Product Flops & Failures" Illustrated
Wordstream created a visual overview of what they call the “Google graveyard”, that is, failed products. On the list are Google X, Google Catalog, Google Buzz and many more. (Nitpick: they call Google Answers the “answer to Yahoo Answers...
Dateline: 2010-08-12 9:31pm -07:00T (104 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Paul Graham On What Happened to Yahoo
Paul Graham tells what went wrong, from his perspective, with Yahoo. “When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing. It was supposed to be what Goo...
Dateline: 2010-08-12 4:31am -07:00T (96 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Ogs, an iPad Two-Player Game
I like the iPad as a casual device in general, but I love it as a two-player gaming device. Think of a board game where the pieces are magically moving... a game you can take to the cafe, to bars, play in the bus, on the train, whereever!
With that in mi...
Dateline: 2010-08-10 11:16pm -07:00T (683 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google CEO On Anonymity
NetworkWorld collected a couple of interesting quotes by Google boss Eric Schmidt on the subject of privacy and anonymity. He states that privacy is important, but shares some doubts over whether complete anonymity should/ will be granted in the future. B...
Dateline: 2010-08-10 8:46pm -07:00T (173 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google Founders Were Disagreeing Over Interest-based Ads, WSJ Says
Company-internal disagreements are natural and likely healthy but I think it’s interesting what they are about – from the Wall Street Journal:By late 2008, Google executives were preparing to launch ads targeted at users’ interests. But ...
Dateline: 2010-08-10 8:16am -07:00T (190 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google & Verizon Proposal, and Net Neutrality
Google and Verizon released a proposal relating to net neutrality. They claim their efforts are for an open internet: “[T]here should be a new, enforceable prohibition against discriminatory practices ... Importantly, this new nondiscrimination pri...
Dateline: 2010-08-10 5:46am -07:00T (363 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google South Korea Office Raided
ABC News writes:South Korean police said they raided Google Inc’s Seoul office on Tuesday on suspicion that the Internet search leader had illegally collected data on users.Google has been preparing since late last year to launch its “Street V...
Dateline: 2010-08-10 4:31am -07:00T (77 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Micro Drones for Google?
German publication Wirtschaftswoche (“Economy Week”) says that German manufacturer Microdrones has delivered a cam-equipped flying mini drone to Google. Microdrones boss Mr. Juerss is quoted as saying “We have good chances for a long ter...
Dateline: 2010-08-07 12:31pm -07:00T (185 words)
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Google Blogoscoped: Google Ending Google Wave
Google will kill off Google Wave, they told in a blog post. It was a technically very inspiring web app which, however, arrived without any particular and clear use case. This caused not only interface usability problems (Wave was good at allowing you to ...
Dateline: 2010-08-04 9:01pm -07:00T (167 words)
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