Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social | Epicenter | Wired.com
Long but interesting read containing insights on management style and culture at Google, from murals on the wall to using fear as a driver for change.
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Google Goggles in the browser. Nice stuff (via @rhymo)
Mayer then shifted to talk about what we’ll see in the future. She specifically mentioned Layar — ”a digital layer on top of reality”. But she says we can go further than that. “Contextual discovery is taking your location and a little context” — if you had a photo of a bird, how would you convey that bird to a search engine, other than typing something like “bird with a white head and black body”? In the future, you’ll be able to use something like Google Goggles to just upload that snapshot as your query.
Two technologies - Enterprise Collaboration and Geospaciality come of age. Foursquare was just the beginning. Get out your Google goggles and Layar Reality Browser and augment your reality. The physical and digital worlds are converging.
Source: The Huffington Post
‘Which’ is the wrong question. Very nice presentation by Google on HTML5 or Android for mobile development. This one got me thinking…
At that time, hardly anyone at Google actually used Facebook, so they just didn’t understand what people were getting out of social networking products.
My daughter came home from college on thursday night and showed me all of her friend’s Tumblrs. All the cool kids have them at her school now.
Google versus Facebook
Required reading for everyone interested in the long term strategy of these two giants. They are going head on.
Why wouldn’t the companies just tell us what they’re up to? If my guess is right, then I would think they’re silent because it’s a secret. They’d rather their competitors not know until a few hundred shipping containers are in place — and suddenly YouTube looks more like HBO.
Op-Ed Contributor - A Net Game for Google? - NYTimes.com
A theory about a possible deal between Verizon and Google.
Source: The New York Times
This guy is awesome.
@Google & YouTube present A Conversation with Conan O’Brien (via AtGoogleTalks)
Source: youtube.com
