Google has a contest where they have young art students draw a Doodle of the Google logo, and this year one of my Aunt’s students is a finalist so if you wanted to help out and vote for her students drawing that would be much appreciated. Her students drawing is Region 1 for Grades 7-9, as shown below, and voting ends May 25th, so please help out, and vote in the other grades as well.
Techcrunch writer MG Siegler has what I find to be a very interesting take on a problem facing Android. That being that it is innovating too fast. Basically by deluging the market with phones and technology too fast consumers are getting whiplash and it is hurting sales. I saw this happening a lot with the release of the Droid especially since people were getting locked into multi-year contracts and missing out on the Nexus One. It seems the problem is only exacerbated by the fact that Google does not have death grip control over hardware and release info like Apple. Thoughts?
Probably should have thrown one in there about the proper use of the word retard too.
Via YesButNoButYes
We all saw the Google ad during the Super Bowl, and most women probably loved while the men were indifferent, but here is a more realistic version of what would happen made by UCB Comedy.
Via Gizmodo
Eric Schmidt has a great editorial in the Wall Street Journal about how Google and publishers of news content can work together. I think he hits the nail on the head in many ways. Newspaper execs are taking too short sighted a view of the possibilities for their content. If they can even make pennies on the huge volume that a proper online content system would create they wouldn’t have to work about subscription services and other ideas being pitched.
Google recently struck a deal with Twitter in which money changed hands, unlike the Bing deal, and Marissa Mayer announced and upcoming social search tool at the Web 2.0 Summit. The convergence of all these search mediums creates and interesting challenge. How do you mine not just information but the useful information from a base that includes a lot of useless chatter i.e. Twitter/Facebook?
Google Japan is killing it, first with their chrome ad and now this street view ad that rivals Wall-E in robot cuteness.
With the introduction of fast flip Google has introduced a great new way to browse through a topic in different publications or simply move through something like the newspaper. I think the real possibility to apply this tech is being able to scroll across a full publication not just a preview. Something like a more interactive Google maps for newspapers. I think it’s coming with the next iteration of fast flip, or at least I hope.
Google has invited the public to test a faster more accurate search. Good move to include the public as much as possible, with the Microsoft/Yahoo deal and the plastering of Bing ads they had to get something out there. Still hard to believe in a max exodus away from Google.
Via Computerworld
Google has quietly quadrupled the number of newspaper articles in their news archive search
Via TechCrunch
On the YouTube Biz Blog Google went into details debunking the top five YouTube myths.
Google is releasing a new OS that takes on Netbooks and smaller devices head on. Seems like this has been coming for a while and interestingly coincides with the removal of beta status from Google apps. (via Wired)
Google labs is constantly coming up with new and unique ways to improve the Google experience. Check out the 9 Google Labs projects you have to try out. (via Maximum PC)
Google recently put out a blog post inviting major news outlets to become official partners on Youtube and share in the advertising money. In addition to premium placement seems like a good offer and provides an additional badly needed revenue stream.
Google has signed up three more cable networks for their tv ad service, you’ve got to imagine this is going to start snowballing. The model provides a level of segmentation that seems very appealing:
In Google’s pricing model, advertisers pay only for the impressions that are actually delivered, estimated based on the Dish set-top data. Google TV Ads also lets brand managers identify which programs attract specific desired demographics, with a list of about 60 interests (such as motorcycling or children). That would let an advertiser figure out the best way to target, say, women who make more than $100,000 per year whose interests include motorcycles and gambling.