Electronic Frontier Foundation weighs in on th Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal
A Review of Verizon and Google’s Net Neutrality Proposal | Electronic Frontier Foundation It’s tough not to get myself worked up when I read things like the recent Google-Verizon proposal for a framework around network neutrality. Invariably, it feels like power is amassing to limit freedom, and that tends to cause people to run around [...]
Google Search Stories highlight your tale on the web
Wonderfully clever little tool here, this Google Search Story Creator. What’s a search story? It’s the story of your business as told through Google’s search results. Simply enter search terms that are representative of your business or brand online and Google will craft a clever little commercial for you. Whether it was a lifelong talent, [...]
Major Update for Google Docs, no word on if this includes Google Apps users
Major Update for Google Docs This is generally terrific news. Google Docs is already great, but the learning curve has been tough for those unaccustomed to working in the cloud. The new interface and collaboration tools will ease that sell, I think. Besides using a new infrastructure, the document editor and the spreadsheet editor will [...]
Google is Open and Good. If you don’t like it, you’re doing something wrong.
As much as I love Google products, and use them daily, here is a perky brick to the ethical head. The following quote is from Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the current CNBC Google Blockbuster. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first [...]
Google Apps get Groups, Browsers get Sized
Google, sometimes you are water to a drowning man. With your fancy, model-breaking free services, your forever-beta attitude, your kicking font. So many services, so many configurations, so many thoughtful ways for a simple man like myself to divulge my personal information. But this month, you have showered me with useful things. So man, in [...]
The Google Phone Cometh
Technology blog Techcrunch.com has long held the banner that there will one day come a “Google Phone” — a phone branded by Google itself, bearing the Android operating system, not offered in partnership with a wireless provider. This is sort of big news. See, currently, in the United States, if you want a cell phone, [...]
Sprint to sell Android phone in October
Just to follow up the Pre article from earlier this morning, if I were walking in to a Sprint store for a phone, which is unlikely for me, but if I were going to do it, I’d be waiting for the HTC Hero. Widely praised by reviewers as well as users who can already buy [...]
Google Launches Cloud Sync for Mobile
It’s about time.
Amazon to unleash Kindle format to mobiles?
I just finished recording a great discussion for the soon-to-be-launched, if not long-awaited, OutsourcedCMO show in which we not so much dissect, as gloss over, Amazon.com’s retail reign in spite of economic turmoil. It’s an interesting discussion that spans the history of online direct selling, including the online cambrian era in which the first macroscopic [...]
How to use Google News and Blog Alerts to Build Your Populist Media Empire
When I was employed by big-corporate PR, I used Google News Alerts religiously. Still do. It’s a fantastic service, constantly filtering the Google index for current news relevant to my search query and delivering it to my inbox every day. At Apollo, I was interested in news about our company, and news about our competitors, [...]
