Site starts showing full-length TV episodes, films
USA Today Oct 24, 08 4:16 PM CDT
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YouTube is abandoning its 10-minute video limit to show movies and full-length TV episodes, starting with Star Trek , MacGyver , and Beverly Hills, 90210 . The Google-owned juggernaut is responding to competition from Hulu and other sites, reports USA Today . It’s also adding “pre-roll” advertisements that play before a video rather than embedded links that allowed users uninterrupted viewing.
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EU plans to digitize 10,000 artifacts
Der Spiegel Oct 22, 08 5:10 PM CDT
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European culture is going digital. Priceless items such as the Magna Carta, the Mona Lisa, and the Gutenberg Bible will eventually be accessible worldwide for free on “Europeana,” an online encyclopedia funded by the European Union. It plans to match Google Library Project’s 10 million artifacts by 2010, Der Spiegel reports.
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PRODUCT REVIEW
Not as snazzy as iPhone, and memory is an issue, but open model sure to keep offerings sharp
Wall Street Journal Oct 22, 08 12:28 PM CDT
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With Google’s G1 smartphone making this week’s big tech splash, Katherine Boehret, in the Wall Street Journal , takes a look at some of the applications on offer, finding them “useful, entertaining, and mostly straightforward.” Of those she tested from the Android Market, “the G1's apps are more utilitarian than most apps I've tested for Apple's iPhone—and not quite as visually pleasing.”
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OPINION
Operating system
looks to potential well beyond phones: Malik
GigaOm Oct 21, 08 2:45 PM CDT
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Google’s release of the code for its Android operating system today—a day before the G1 phone hits stores—paves the path for transformation of the cell-phone industry and beyond, Om Malik writes on GigaOm. As coders enhance Android and develop add-ons, either for existing devices or new ones, consumers will benefit from increased choice and cheaper, faster phones, Malik writes.
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Mail Goggles meant to help prevent you writing missives you'll regret
New York Times Oct 19, 08 2:35 PM CDT
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With drunk-dialing evolving at the speed of technology, people need an updated version of that friend who grabs your phone and says, "Dude, don't call her." But, asks Alex Williams in a look at Google's Mail Goggles in the New York Times, "Are we becoming so tethered to our keyboards that we really need the technological equivalent of trigger locks on firearms?" The answer, it would seem, is a resounding yes.
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product review
Gadget impresses but won't keep Apple up nights
Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 08 10:27 AM CDT
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Google's upcoming G1 is the first real rival to the iPhone, but the different gadgets "are likely to attract different types of users," Walt Mossberg writes in the Wall Street Journal . Making phone calls was a lot easier on the G1, which worked great with Google services, Mossberg found in extensive testing. But the long-awaited new toy was a distant runner-up as a multimedia device.
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Online ad deal may be capped to avoid further scrutiny
Wall Street Journal Oct 14, 08 12:01 PM CDT
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Google and Yahoo are working to settle any antitrust issues arising from their proposed joint online ad venture, the Wall Street Journal reports. Google has offered a cap on the volume of ads it sells Yahoo, which may be willing to continue selling search ads to avoid lengthy legal battles that threaten to stifle the deal.
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Buffett bumps Gates
in redrawn rankings
of world's wealthiest
Bloomberg Oct 10, 08 12:15 PM CDT
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The mortgage meltdown has certainly hit middle-class Americans hard but hasn't spared the uber-wealthy, Bloomberg reports. Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson’s net worth shed $4 billion between Aug. 29 and Oct. 1, for instance, while Warren Buffett overtook Bill Gates, whose net worth declined $1.5 billion, as the richest American. Other losers and their losses:
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Mail Goggles works late on the weekend to make drunken email tougher to get to
InformationWeek Oct 7, 08 12:52 PM CDT
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If you've ever, after a few drinks, sent an email you later regretted, Google's got a gadget for you, InformationWeek reports. Mail Goggles, a play on those beer goggles that make you see (and think) fuzzy, activates late night on weekends “to verify you're in the right state of mind,” the company explains, “making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send.”
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GLOSSIES
Former Googlers make ever-widening waves
across Silicon Valley
Esquire Oct 4, 08 2:40 AM CDT
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In the past few years, Google has lost some serious firepower to the startup frontier, Luke Dittrich writes in Esquire . With self-styled Xooglers providing the brain power not only for two dozen or so startups, but for the venture-capital firms that fund them, it’s likely “the next big thing to come out of Google won't come out of Google at all.”
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Site boasted of indexing 1.3B pages (it's 8B now) ... and YouTube wasn't yet one
TechCrunch Oct 1, 08 2:52 PM CDT
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To honor its 10th birthday, Google put up a search engine that reflects the web in 2001, TechCrunch reports. Other than the Yahoo-esque exclamation point in Google’s logo, the search engine has not changed that much since—but searches show the web, and the world, have: "iPod" brings up a defunct document-processing system, while "YouTube" yields zero links.
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Tech experts list top overrated, underrated products
PC World Sep 29, 08 12:07 PM CDT
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You can replace your most over-hyped devices with the tech world's top 10 wallflowers, compiled by PC World . Start with the iPhone: Stop stubbing your fingers on Apple's impractical keyboard interface. Sidekick offers the best QWERTY around. Nintendo Wii is hard to find and offers few good games. Sony PlayStation Portable packs new titles with Skype, online radio, and uploadable movies.
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