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0February 17, 2010
Google Liquid Galaxy
Google’s Liquid Galaxy is engineer Jason Holt’s 20% time project, a wraparound view of 8 LCD screens providing a truly immersive experience of Google Earth and Street View.
We [Mashable] wrote about Google’s Liquid Galaxy project back in December, one of the more interesting 20% projects in which [...]
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0January 06, 2010
Google’s Nexus One Mobile Phone
We’ve all heard about it, read about it and perhaps have even seen it. It’s the new Nexus One Mobile Phone the from Google.
So far, since yesterday’s release, it’s been extremely well received. From the pics and specs above, the praise seem to be justified. The Nexus One is indeed a beautiful piece of equipment and should give some smart phones a good run for their money. [...]
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0January 05, 2010
Online Video Continues To Surge
November Sees Number of U.S. Videos Viewed Online Surpass 30 Billion for First Time on Record
Hulu Extends All-Time High to 924 Million Videos Viewed
RESTON, VA, January 5, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released November [...]
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0December 22, 2009
Top Mobile Phones, Sites & Brands in 2009
From Nielsen Wire:
The iPhone and various Blackberry handhelds dominated the mobile device market, while Google, Yahoo! and YouTube led the way as far as most accessed sites and brands on the mobile web. [...]
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0December 17, 2009
How HTML5 Will Change the Way You Use the Web
I’ve been meaning to get down to the nitty-gritty of HTML 5 and write a post about it for months now.
HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) started work on the specification in June 2004 under the name Web [...]
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0December 15, 2009
Morgan Stanley’s Mobile Internet Report
Today the good folks over at Morgan Stanley released Mary Meeker’s amazing mobile Internet tome. It’s a wealth of information for all things related to the mobile web… stats, trends, forecasts and more. There are several versions since some may be a bit intimidated by the the full 694-page report.
Below, I’ve included each version: The Mobile Internet Report [...]
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0December 07, 2009
Google Goggles: Android Visual Search App
Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview. [...]
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0October 30, 2009
How Google Social Search Works
Google recently launched a new experimental feature in Google Labs that searches your social circle in addition to your regular Google search results. Announced at Web 2.0 in San Francisco last week, Google Social Search is currently in its Beta testing phase. In the video below, Matt Cutts from the search quality team explains how Google Social Search works. [...]
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0October 28, 2009
Google Music Search Feature
Today, Google announced their much anticipated Google Music Search Feature. From the looks of the video promo above, this could turn out to be a huge play for Google and their music partners. According to Google:
Every day we get millions of search queries about music. You want [...]
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0October 20, 2009
20 Essential Resources for 4 of the Web’s Hottest Social APIs
From Mashable:
This series is supported by PayPal X Innovate 2009, PayPal’s first dedicated developer conference. Register for $49 with the code ppblog3 or join us at $50 if you are a student.
The API (Application Programming Interface) has been [...]
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