Tag: google

  • Google's windfall for copyright claimants

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    In case you haven’t heard (where have you been?) Google announced that the rumours were true after all and that they have agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65bn. Yep. You read that correctly, $1.65bn. Unsurprisingly, this is the top story on TechMeme. It looks like Google believes video on the web has a real future…

  • Google Blogsearch adds ping

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    Thanks to Niall Kennedy for pointing out Google’s new ping service. This is great – one of the biggest problems I had with Google’s blogsearch was how slow it was to pick up on posts. Several hours after posting an article, typically it still wasn’t up on Google whereas the post is often up on…

  • Finally, an outstanding online RSS reader

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    I have had issues with Google Reader (Google’s online RSS/feed reader) in the past but in the latest update to Google Reader, released today most of those issues have been addressed. Lots of people are posting opinions on this from Marshall Kirkpatrick on TechCrunch to Robert Scoble on Scobleizer to Richard McManus on the ReadWrite…

  • Google launch attack on the Office Enterprise market

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    Google has released Google Applications for Your Domain – you can sign up and check it out over at http://www.google.com/a. Google Applications for Your Domain currently allows you to run Gmail, Gtalk, and Gpages (a web publishing tool) through your own domain. One immediate advantage of doing this is that Gmail’s spam filters seem to…

  • Too little too late – Google tries to win back Bloggers

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    Blogger is Google’s free hosted blogging platform. Blogger’s steady decline as a blogging platform has been well documented by Blogger users. Via Marshal Kirkpatrick today comes news that Google have launched (in beta, of course!) a newer version of Blogger. This version has lots of shiny bits such as allowing change of colour of your…

  • Where's the case for data retention?

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    Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt announced today that he thinks the greatest danger to people’s privacy is not from leaks of people’s data as happened earlier this week to AOL users but rather from government snooping. I have always worried the query stream is a fertile ground for governments to snoop on the people. This is…

  • The myth of privacy

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    You do know that every search term you type into a search engine is saved by the search engine, don’t you? That time you searched for porn, or an ex boy/girlfriend, or information about an illness you thought you might have – all saved by the search engine. This practice was brought sharply into focus…

  • Free ringtones is where the money is!!!

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    Free ringtones? Money? I noticed a discussion over the weekend (this last weekend was a long weekend in Ireland) on adsense income and one contributor said he was making $2,000 per month from his ads on free-ringtones.ie and what’s more, he was making around $5,000 but he has let the site slide. And he knows…