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atxryan — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:32:54 +0000

Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications

atxryan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:54:37 +0000

And three reasons why Google should be concerned:

1. Facebook serves 3 billion LIKE buttons a day, serves one-sixth of all U.S. ads, has more traffic than Google or the next 99 sites combined, has 100 million mobile users and five times as many web users, and when it launches a Facebook search engine, it will be the second biggest search engine in the world right out of the gate.
2. Twitter's search engine is bigger than Bing and Yahoo combined. Not only is Twitter doing 800 million searches a day, but apparently they're the fastest growing search engine in the U.S.
3. Bing actually seems to have a better relationship with Facebook and Twitter, and in addition, Bing has gone out of its way to partner with Amazon as well as Apple and its soon-to-be-100-million iPhone OS devices.

Google Takes On Travel Sites, Courts Regulatory Action With ITA Acquisition

atxryan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:37:04 +0000

ITA is behind the reservations systems for many major airlines around the world, as well as travel sites such as Kayak, Orbitz, Hotwire and many others. Bing Travel also relies on the software. Google, if allowed to complete the acquisition, would thus own the “infrastructure” behind its direct competitor’s travel product.

HTML5Rocks – Home

atxryan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:57:55 +0000

Historypin – Mashup of old and current view

atxryan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:03:07 +0000

Historypin is a like a digital time machine that allows people to view and share their personal history in a totally new way.

It uses Google Maps and Street View technology and hopes to become the largest user-generated archive of the world's historical images and stories.

Google Font Directory

atxryan — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:29:22 +0000

All fonts in Google's Font Directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.

WebM Project: an open web media project

atxryan — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:41:37 +0000

The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone. The WebM launch is supported by Mozilla, Opera, Google and more than forty other publishers, software and hardware vendors.

Google to build high-speed Internet network

atxryan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:31:06 +0000

"In a big way, this is about Google wanting to make a case for net neutrality," said PRTM consultant Daniel Hays, adding that Google wants to "demonstrate these services can be provided profitably at satisfactory levels of performance."

Google Getting Involved in Fiber for Communities

atxryan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:44:30 +0000

Google is asking local governments and residents to express their interest in the fiber optic trial.

Google a Dream come true

atxryan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:37:48 +0000