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Risk on Google Maps

LiewCF has a post that mentions Liew writes, "If you play Risk (board game), then you may want to try out Risk on Google Map". Liew also points out that the Risk game was developed using the Google Maps API....

Posted on November 14, 2005 4:11 PM

XBox requires e911?

This morning I wrote about the congressional hearing discussing a draft of legislation to create a statutory framework for Internet Protocol and Broadband Services.I didn't have time to listen to the entire hearing and comment on all of it, so...

Posted on November 10, 2005 2:49 PM

Microsoft's Bill Gates take on Google

I received my Entireweb Newsletter this morning and it had a couple of interesting quotes from Bill Gates taken from a Computing article.First, check out this jab Bill Gates throws at Google:"Which Google products are you talking about? Seriously? Other...

Posted on November 4, 2005 9:32 AM

Click to call continues to grow

With companies such as Ingenio and eStara promoting click-to-call technology and ecommerce sites looking to add click-to-call to help close sales, "click-to-call VoIP" (click on a web link and initiate a VoIP call) continues to make strides. Google, eBay, Yahoo...

Posted on November 1, 2005 11:27 AM

Google and Comcast want AOL

From Greg's blog titled Google, Comcast & AOL??? Oh my.This just crossed the wire. Oh my.These are interesting times indeed.Google Inc. and Comcast Corp. are in "serious discussions" to buy a minority stake in Time Warner's America Online, a source...

Posted on October 12, 2005 5:15 PM

The Google Universe

Chief executive Eric Schmidt estimates that Google won't manage to index all the world's information until around the 24th century. Thus, it would take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable, Google's chief executive Eric...

Posted on October 12, 2005 12:32 PM

Google Infoglobe

Can't get enough Google? I mean between checking your GMail, searching Google for interesting blogs, and talking via Google Talk, pretty much your entire waking world revolves around Google, so why not have Google revolve your "sleeping world" as well?...

Posted on September 16, 2005 2:15 PM

Microsoft vs. Google the Tit-for-Tat war

Two days ago I pondered whether Google would acquire Technorati or finally build their own blog search engine. Just a few hours later from this post, Google announced Google Blog Search. Actually, I planned it that way! ;) Of course,...

Posted on September 15, 2005 12:42 PM

Google Blog Search beta

Google Blog Search BetaLooks like Google has a blog search engine after all - Google Blog Search beta. The screenshot is a search on "voip blog". <click the image above for a larger view of Google Search Beta> I'm listed...

Posted on September 14, 2005 8:03 AM

Google buys Technorati

Google buys Technorati - sounds plausible doesn't it? Since it seems to be end-of-summer merger mania (ebay buys Skype for example). Tom Raftery thinks it might be Rupert Murdock eyeing Technorati, which after the recent acquisition of MySpaces.com would be...

Posted on September 13, 2005 10:57 AM

Oracle and Siebel what does it mean?

My analysis of the recent Oracle acquiring Siebel deal.Oracle/Siebel - we want to own your customer data (Oracle) and present that data with the best CRM application front-end (Siebel).Microsoft - we're trying really hard to own your customer data (Microsoft...

Posted on September 12, 2005 10:14 AM

Microsoft's Ballmer on the war path again

At the Microsoft conference yesterday, Steve Ballmer acknowledged salesforce.com's industry leadership and competitive threat: "We're going to give Salesforce a very effective run for their money…" (i.e. Microsoft CRM)Well at least he didn't toss a chair and wow to "f*ing...

Posted on September 8, 2005 4:45 PM

Google hires Vint Cerf

Google Inc. announces that it hired Vinton (Vint) Cerf, the longtime technologist who is widely known as a “founding father” of the Internet, as Chief Internet Evangelist.When Microsoft was pressed for comment they stated "First it was Kai-Fu Lee and...

Posted on September 8, 2005 12:00 PM

Share the Google PR Love man!

Good bloggers write regularly on specific topics because it is a passion of theirs. Bloggers also develop a strong community with fellow bloggers that share their viewpoints or write about the same topics. Part of that community involves posting comments...

Posted on August 26, 2005 11:44 AM

Google vs. Microsoft

Did anybody else notice the rainbow colors on Google Talk match the exact same colors as Microsoft's butterfly? Check it out in the screenshots. Both color schemes are exactly the same if you view it from left-to-right (going clockwise in...

Posted on August 25, 2005 2:00 PM

Vonage IPO

Vonage is reportedly preparing for an IPO according to the WSJ.According to the WSJ, Vonage is planning an initial public offering to raise as much as $600 million. According to the article, "Citing a person familiar with the matter, the...

Posted on August 25, 2005 9:27 AM

Google Talk supports SIP, what does Skype do now?

Now that Google has announced plans to support SIP in Google Talk and plans to "federate" with third-party providers including Sipphone's Gizmo Project and Earthlink's Vling, where does this leave Skype? Skype up to now has been able to...

Posted on August 24, 2005 5:47 PM

Google Talk Polygamy for multiple identities

Want to run Google Talk with multiple Gmail identities? If you have several Google Gmail accounts you also may want to run multiple instances of Google Talk This is especially important for families that share a single PC. Nothing worse...

Posted on August 24, 2005 4:54 PM

GMail Invites are dead

I wondered in my Google Talk Test Drive blog post if GMail invites would see a "spike". I wrote, "Looks like the GMail invites should see a spike due to Google Talk. Wonder if people are still selling Gmail invites...

Posted on August 24, 2005 3:00 PM

Google Talk's secret game

Right-click on the Google Talk icon in your System Tray and then click on "About" to see this screenshot. Notice the cryptic message which is nearly white on white that says:play 23 21 13 16 21 . 19 7 1...

Posted on August 24, 2005 12:34 PM

Google Upgraditis

This blog poster opines about how he recently installed Google Desktop then deleted it to install Yahoo! Desktop. Then he learned that a new version of Google Desktop was out called Google Sidebar and he just had to go and...

Posted on August 23, 2005 1:40 PM

Google Adsense changes

Google changed their Adsense advertising method last Tuesday which is affecting millions of online campaigns. Many Adsense publishers have seen a "bump" in revenue as a result of Google's advertising changes, while advertisers are complaining of increased costs. Google now...

Posted on August 23, 2005 10:09 AM

Google's Free WiFi?

Rumor is that Google is planning to offer free nationwide WiFi. According to Om's B2Day, San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom will hold a press conference today detailing his plans for a citywide WiFi network.Om comments that this is "adding fuel...

Posted on August 16, 2005 1:00 PM

Google Earth Install Error

I was installing Google Earth at the behest of Robert/Vahid Hashemian (aka "Means Everything to Me", "Looks Good", and "Huh? What?" <TMC inside joke>) when I got this error code -5009: 0x80040806This is my first "bad" experience with any Google...

Posted on July 20, 2005 4:54 PM

Google TV

A source has informed me that Google is in the process of purchasing a massive amount of bandwidth and a major network upgrade. The source didn't confirm or deny whether Google was purchasing bandwidth from Level3, but all signs point...

Posted on June 15, 2005 2:00 PM