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Eric Schmidt on journalism and the future of newspapers

reenum — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:20:05 -0800

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a talk at the Newspaper Association of America convention on April 9, 2009 in San Diego. He speaks about how Google and newspapers might co-exist in the future. Here is a transcript of Schmidt's April talk. Schmidt also spoke at length with Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land recently about Google's responsibility to newspapers.

Google Asks: "What Would Email Look Like, If It Were Invented Today?"

zarq — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:45:13 -0800

Google began inviting volunteers to a public preview test of their new Wave web-based collaborative email and document communications platform yesterday, which enables users to "communicate and work together in real time." Initial reviews this past May seemed positive. (Previously) Features include real-time collaboration, (including concurrent editing and control of each "wave" thread,) natural language tools and a variety of APIs which users can use to embed content in other sites. Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 (80min video -- an abridged 10 minute version is here. Wave login page is here. Google Wave Federation Protocol is an open source project for developers. The WSJ reports that invites are now for sale on EBay. Something similar happened when Google launched GMail in 2004.

A front pages post

fatllama — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:54:33 -0800

Google Fast Flip: Newspaper Stand 2.0

Gordon Waller dead at 64

garnetgirl — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:17:54 -0800

Gordon Waller of British duo Peter and Gordon had died at 64 Gordon Waller, from the British duo Peter and Gordon has died of cardiac arrest in CT this past weekend. The songs I really like to listen to from them was the one Paul McCartney wrote "A World Without Love" and "True Love Ways". Sad to hear he's passed.

The robot will remember it for you

ardgedee — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:24:01 -0800

NPR Backstory is an automated Twitter feed providing helpful links to news items from the past 14 years that might be relevant to current events. For example, when masses of people started googling medical information after a news item about 200,000 patients' medical histories being accidentally exposed, NPRbackstory linked to an April 2008 analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of storing patient records online. " The results, Keith will be the first to tell you, aren’t perfect. He estimated... that about 50 percent of the links aren’t really to archival stories.... Another 15 percent of the results are complete misses. Those are usually caused by search terms that have multiple meanings. And once in a while there’s something way out of left field, like this attempt to tie "plankton" to a memoir by the advice columnist Ask Amy. But the rest of the time, it works really well — plucking a gem from the NPR archives that adds context and depth to some subject in the news. Keith compared it to the way that Fresh Air’s three-decade archive allows it to air something old but newly timely whenever a past interview subject is in the news again." It's a personal project of Keith Hopper, using NPR's news API, Google's Hot Trends list of currently-popular search terms, and a variety of other tools; Hopper's page provides more technical info. [via]

The Androids are coming!

loquacious — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:37:00 -0800

Google's Android goes live for demo. Lots of video and stills. Cache.

Facebook to blue screen shortly

Tommy Gnosis — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:51:52 -0800

Microsoft buys stake in Facebook. Microsoft has paid $240m (£117m) for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the hugely popular social networking site at $15bn (£7.3bn). Facebook spurned an offer from Microsoft's rival Google, which was also keen to invest the site. Microsoft will also sell internet ads for Facebook outside the United States as part of the deal that took several weeks of negotiating. Mark Zuckerberg started the online social networking site in his Harvard University dorm room less than four years ago. Mr Zuckerberg, 23, has indicated he would like to hold off on an initial public offering for at least two more years. He rebuffed a $1bn takeover offer from Yahoo last year. Facebook expects to make a profit of $30m this year so on conventional valuations a $15bn price tag would look expensive.

Scoble on How to Read 600 RSS Feeds a Day

shivohum — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:13:01 -0800

How to Read 600 RSS Feeds a Day for Pleasure and Profit. Video of Robert Scoble showing how he culls 600 RSS feeds a day for his weblog, Scobleizer, using Google Reader.

Google takes on Paypal

p3t3 — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:29:32 -0800

Google Checkout is officially unveiled today; the latest service to join the Google arsenal in their race to control the entire www. It has been suggested in the news that the Google payment service was also a big factor in the recent Yahoo and eBay partnership, since eBay's Paypal service might finally have some real competition. More info on the service here.

Google Base Launches

walljm — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:38:57 -0800

Google Base launches. Is it me or does this look a lot like craigslist?

Customized without a link

NickDouglas — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:51:02 -0800

Customized Google News , launched today, requires no registration, unlike Yahoo News or MSNBC News or even clean-format My Way News. A revolution in customization without commitment, based on Google's largely no-registration strategy. One giant leap in Google commoditization. I'd link you to the Google Blog entry, but although it reached my RSS reader it disappeared from the blog.

Google News gets some competition from Microsoft.

skallas — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 08:50:19 -0800

Google News gets some competition from Microsoft. MSNBC unveils its 'newsbot.'

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sudama — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:59:48 -0800

Not to touch on politics, but I found this particularly striking example of how Google News can reveal a dimension of 'news' that can be difficult to observe.

One more bubble, please.

chunking express — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:55:52 -0800

Word on the street is google has filled for an IPO. Hot Damn!

Battle of the Newsbots

costas — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:04:54 -0800

Microsoft fires back at Google News. As described in this article in New Scientist, MSN is trying its own version of Google News with a twist: theirs adds customized content tailored to the interests of the current reader.

mathowie — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:27:07 -0800

Google's News has launched as a new tab on their other search interfaces with a heavy redesign, though it still carries a "beta" label. The front page changes every few minutes based on some hidden popularity algorithm, as do the sub-pages. Featuring a stark ad-free design that looks quite a bit more attractive than CNN.com or any other major news site, perhaps robot-collected news is the wave of the future.

anildash — Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:16:02 -0800

Google Current Events: Always the innovator, Google's brains make it easier to find news (and archives of news) about all of today's events.

sylloge — Thu, 23 Aug 2001 04:45:43 -0800

More google ???: phone/address listings (with a map right to your house!), and (useless) news headlines which contain search terms (some screenshots in case they are just testing).

bliss322 — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:07:16 -0800

google restores deja view google restores usenet archives; according to the article, it's a better search engine than before.