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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.

Is Day Care a luxury or a benefit?

ThePinkSuperhero — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:49:29 -0800

On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble You’re probably guessing that because it involves “do no evil” Google, Fortune magazine’s “Best Company to Work For” the past two years, this is a heart-warming tale of a good company reversing a dumb decision. If only.

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.

Google buys 5% of AOL

Tlogmer — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:22:16 -0800

Google buys a 5% stake in AOL. For ... one billion dollars.

The future of MS, Apple, and Google

Tlogmer — Fri, 13 May 2005 19:13:53 -0800

The future of Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

Great Googly Moogly

fixedgear — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:58:19 -0800

Forget about P&G and Gilette, how 'bout Google & Firefox? Is Google developing their own browser? They appear to be hiring Firefox developers. Can Googzilla be far behind?

Hackers == Terrorists?

mrgrimm — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:00:42 -0800

Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, others under attack? Despite all the big IPO news about Google, the bigger news today is that it doesn't work. Slap on an age-discrimination suit while we're at it, and potential trouble for the IPO. Have Larry and Sergei finally pissed off the wrong people?

Biz Stratergy MS uses

jayantk — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:17:54 -0800

Google: the God that failed? is the title of the article on MSN Slate. All of us know Microsoft is working on a new search engine technology. Till date everyone considers Google to be the Guru. MS obviously doesn't like that, so what it is doing? Well, the same thing it always does - to survive competition, eliminate it. The reasons being given by the article are pretty silly and more aimed at 'faming down' Google.

andrewraff — Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:06:48 -0800

MBA students at Vanderbilt University examine Google's business strategy. Presented in Powerpoint: Google.com, Google: E-Strategy Analysis, A Brief Look at Google and Google: A Strategy Study

bumppo — Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:40:23 -0800

Google's Larry Page sees Horatio Alger surviving on the web: "The way I judge these things is, if you have a product that's really gaining a lot of usage, then it's probably a good idea, and it's probably going to be significant. And that tends to be a metric that investors use as well. Because if it's growing naturally, it'll often continue to grow for a long time. [...] And once you have the product and people are using it, it's very easy to raise investment. " His examples are Google and eGroups. Pyra presumably spent too much money on staple-removers and post-it notes.