Technology The 'Everything Google that isn't Android' thread

[Casey]

Google Buzz FTW

 

[Flipmo]

This advert is too damn cute.

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I'm going to make Google at my wedding the Best-Man.

 

[Casey]

Google launches ’person finder’ for Chile quake victims

 

[Casey]

Google Translate now built into Chrome (also LOL at the subtle advertising of the MOTOROI)

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[S O F I]

Google facts and figures (massive infographic) | Royal Pingdom

 

[Casey]

Google Cloud Print:

Google’s Chrome OS is due to come out some time this year, and there are still plenty of questions about how people are going to use a computer that’s based entirely in the browser. One question that came up when the OS was first announced: how are people going to print from this thing? Google has just spelled out its solution on the Chromium Blog: The Cloud.

Google has announced a new project called Google Cloud Print which is setting out to “build a printing experience that enables any app (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer anywhere in the world.” In short, your computer or device will tell Cloud Print what it wants printed, and Cloud Print will then send the appropriate instructions to your printer. No printer drivers necessary.

Google is providing some initial documentation on the project here. The site says that any application, be it native or web based, will be able to use Cloud Print through APIs (which will allow you to submit print jobs and also check job status). There’s going to be a standard ‘web UI’ print dialog for interacting with the service from an application.

Of course, there’s still one big problem: getting Google Cloud Print to actually talk to your printer. Google has two solutions to this. In the long term, it is proposing that the industry adopt new open standards around cloud printing, and that manufacturers build new printer models to be ‘cloud aware’. In other words, the printer is connected to the web and includes software that knows how to communicate with Google’s servers.

The second solution is for ‘legacy printers’ (which include all printers at this point—even printers with an ethernet or Wifi connection). For these, Google plans to offer software that you install on the PC that the printer is connected to. Google is currently building this proxy software for Windows and intends to support Mac and Linux down the line. You won’t actually install the software on your own, either — it will come with Google Chrome (though it will be off by default). Google also hopes that some router manufacturers will start including the proxy software in their devices, so that users don’t have to leave their computers on.

A few key things to note: Google is going to offer its own Cloud Print service, but it wants the standard to be open and expects other alternative services to spring up as well. And this isn’t just for computers — it could potentially be used for phones, tablets, and any other web-enabled device. Wouldn’t that be nice.

source - Google’s Plan To Give Chrome OS (And All Web-Enabled Devices) Universal Printer Support

 

[masta247]

Google Announces First Quarter 2010 Financial Results - Investor Relations - Google

they could feed the whole world!

 

[Casey]

If there's one thing you need to know about Google Chrome..... it's FAST.

Faster than a speeding potato, sound, and lightning, apparently.

 

[Casey]

Google has announced it's own codec for web video, called WebM. This will be standardly supported in HTML5 and has the backing of all the major players in this field - Mozilla, Opera, Adobe, Broadcom, Qualcomm, etc. Basically, all the people that matter in this area.

Have a read here:

Google Introduces the WebM Video Format

and more here:

Software and Hardware Companies Jump on Google's WebM Train

Google Announces WebM Video Format: The Future of HTML5 Video? - PCWorld

Google I/O Conference Kicks Off With New WebM Video Format

I have no doubt that WebM will become the only thing that matters when it comes to video on the web. Anyone not supporting it will be fucked.

 

[Synful*Luv]

Dear Casey,

You should work for Google. I will write a letter of recommendation for you.

That is all.

Syn

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Casey markets google's products more than the marketing team does for a salary.

people think that of me too when i give advice about phones or post some articles up.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Music labels now going after Google search results

The BPI, Britain's largest recording industry association, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google demanding the popular search engine take down links that lead to "one-click hosting" sites such as MegaUpload.

The complaint says there are at least 38 links "available via Google’s search engine, and [requests these] links be removed as soon a possible as they directly link to sound recordings owned by [BPI] members."

A few of the songs mentioned as being readily available for unauthorized download via Google are K’Naan’s "Wavin’ Flag," Michael Bublé's "Haven't Met You Yet" and Eminem's "Not Afraid." While Google does not host any of the infringing sites or songs, searches lead users to MegaUpload, SendSpace, Rapidshare and others.

The BPI, in an example, typed "k’naan wavin’ flag download" into Google and the first couple of pages of results showed off free download sites.

Google has often said they are not liable as they only index sites and list them, while not hosting any files.

 

[Shadows]

I don't know if I'm late, but the new image results on good are epic!

 

[dilla]

Casey markets google's products more than the marketing team does for a salary.

people think that of me too when i give advice about phones or post some articles up.

Well, that's what Google hopes for when they make their products. You think marketing by the company gets the most business for them? It's word of mouth by the consumer through either blogs or news sites.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

^^ i know. was just making a joke out of it.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

I don't know if I'm late, but the new image results on good are epic!

yes, its rather sick.

 

[Casey]

You guys heard of "Google Me" apparently that's Google's upcoming Facebook rivalling social network.

They've pulled a power move by putting Vic Gundotra in charge. He's one of the main people responsible for the success of Android to date - some of you might remember him from the Google IO conferences.

WAR! It’s Patton v. Rommel: Vic Gundotra Will Lead Google To Victory In Social War With Facebook)

Google has chosen a General in their War With Facebook – VP Engineering Vic Gundotra, we’ve heard from multiple sources. This is the person who will control overall product strategy and execution around their new efforts to find relevance in a quickly changing Internet landscape that is increasingly dominated by Facebook.

Gundotra has previously been involved in a slew of product efforts at Google, but has focused largely on Android and Google’s mobile phone applications.

Other product leads were considered, we’ve heard from sources, including other Google vice presidents and outsiders. But Gundotra is now firmly in control.

Google hasn’t officially revealed any of its plans in social, but we’ve heard to expect them to be making a significant effort.

The type of effort that suggests they’ve mortgaged the farm and have just the one crop left to plant. Their backs are against the wall. Etc.

Lose and they give control over the way the web is organized, and monetized for the next decade or so. The Age Of Facebook will begin.

We’ve got an aggressive, zealous Facebook army controlling a third of the world’s Internet population, and they want more. Meanwhile, The old bully on the block, Google, can still rumble pretty well when he gets worked up enough.

I think he’s gotten worked up enough.

If you just switch guns and tanks with notebooks and land grabs with unique visitor grabs, all loaded down with monetizable personal information, the analogy is complete. The Third Reich was to take over the world, as Facebook is poised to do today. All that stands between them and victory is a somewhat slow to move giant called Google (America). And our hero is also fighting another war to the death with Microsoft/Japan, making things more complicated.

Things will get interesting, to say the least.

There may even be a group of recently imported brains from Eastern Europe hard at work on a Manhattan Project-like endeavor to develop the first atomic-powered mobile phone. First to get that sucker to market just wins by default. No one can stand up to that kind of weaponized technology.

But back to reality. Gundotra has product control of Google’s social thrust broadly defined, we hear. Google Me, their new social platform, certainly. But Google Games is a core part of the social experience as well (remember that 40% of all time spent on Facebook is spent…playing games). Google has a deal locked up with Zynga to get the best games right off the bat. And Google’s upcoming music service will be a killer feature that Facebook has shunned to date. Music is a great app to have, and a must-have app for mobile.

And don’t count this Google team out just yet. Gundotra was a key part of moving Android from an idea to the second largest operating system platform in the world in just two years. They’re standing toe to toe with Apple already, something most people said couldn’t be done. And Gundotra has experience at Microsoft in a variety of come from behind and then dominate/kill your competitor – with the Xbox, for example. And before that Internet Explorer, built on the cold, soggy remains of Netscape.

“That team relishes a come from behind situation where everybody is betting against them” said one source. “My guess is they copy what works at Facebook, throw away what doesn’t, and add killer apps like Music to the mix. And they may even use open standards, protect privacy in an easy to understand way, and let people! actually take their own data out of the system!!!

You can create any kind of playing field you want to watch this all play out. I take Europe and Africa in WWI and pit the underdog Gundotra/Patton against the guy who had everything to lose – Rommel/Facebook.

A few of my favorite Patton quotes:

Patton: Now there’s another thing I want you to remember. I don’t want to get any messages saying that “we are holding our position.” We’re not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we’re not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We’re going to hold onto him by the nose and we’re going to kick him in the ass. We’re going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we’re going to go through him like crap through a goose!

Patton: Thirty years from now, when you’re sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, “What did you do in the great World War II,” you won’t have to say, “Well… I shoveled shit in Louisiana.”

Patton: We’re gonna keep fighting. Is that CLEAR? We’re gonna attack all night, we’re gonna attack tomorrow morning. If we are not VICTORIOUS, let no man come back alive!

Lt. Col. Charles R. Codman: You know General, sometimes the men don’t know when you’re acting.
Patton: It’s not important for them to know. It’s only important for me to know.

Capt. Richard N. Jenson: They haven’t spotted our positions yet.
Patton: They will get some education in about 10 seconds when they get a dose of our artillery fire.

Patton: You know, Dick, if I had my way, I’d meet Rommel face to face; him in his tank and me in mine. We’d meet out there somewhere… salute each other, maybe drink a toast, then we’d button up and do battle. The winner would decide the outcome of the entire war.

So who wins? The good guys do, of course. Well in this case it’ll be whoever is deemed closest to “good.” Heck, it may just end up being a tie.

Then they can split us all 50/50 and go home super, duper rich. Yahoo can then find a use for itself by coming in an mopping up the mess, I guess. Maybe they can be the official photographers of the war and give Flickr a much needed burst of activity.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

i really cant be bothered to read all of that - its too long.

competition is good, all those myspacers with the 'glittery graphics and automatic songs playing looking so "cool", at the expense of a quick and smooth browsing experience' from college eventually converted to facebook users.
let's see what happens with facebook users when Google Me comes along. Good play on words as to google is to search something. me relating to people who are users of the service, so to locate them on the network is to google them.

i have a funny feeling the pictures from the social networking site will appear in images.google.com if privacy controls are not monitored by the user, thus making their content available to non-google me users. and maybe information of profiles to the web search, thus resulting in more employees getting fired and spouses finding out about their other halves having affairs.

Social networking is getting boring now. the best thing about it is having 3-way or more conversations with all your friends. and its like looking through old text messages, its on record, but its publicised to all your mutual friends... which can be a drawback.

 

[masta247]

I don't know if I'm late, but the new image results on good are epic!

what image results?
Am I missing something?

 

[Casey]

Google just announced they are ceasing development on Google Wave saying it hasn't obtained the user base they would have liked.

As someone who has been using it a LOT and finding it incredibly useful, I'm equal parts sad and pissed right now.

Frankly I think most people are just too fucking stupid to realize just how great it is. Me and my band wrote our whole new album using it and it was the best possible tool for that - any creative collaboration would benefit from it.