As little as a year ago Google Maps had no geographic information about San Javier La Loma, a small working class neighborhood on the outskirts of Medellín where the ConVerGentes group of the HiperBarrio citizen journalism project is based. Some progress has been made, but as you can [...]
CNBC tonight is running an hour-long special on Google. The show dropped some exclusive news that eWeek picked up on - Google is in the process of developing an augmented reality system called Visual Search for Android phones.
The concept, according to CNBC ... "Imagine you're'" [...]This week's podcast is from my weekly slot on Radio Australia Today with Phil Kafcaloudes and Adelaine Ng:
The Google/Murdoch debate. Is Google the future of news?To listen to the [...]
Journalists and news outlets are accustomed to offering comments and criticisms about others, but they're not as used to being the subject of public comment themselves. In the online world, where technology can and does upend established relationships, journalists and online news outlets are joining the ranks of the' [...]
Google today rolled out a public DNS service that anyone tech savvy can use to make their browsing faster. There's no word yet if the domain name service will be built into other services like the Google Toolbar or Google Chrome as a default setting. Here's my quick [...]
Publishers
seem to be saying, in not-quite-on-key unison: The next Internet decade is
going to be different than the last one.
They are all living with the consequences of unintended Googling, as their own sites have become secondary players to the search aggregators, Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN.
In a week that saw the [...]
But honestly, if Google really wants to get social, why doesn't it do what Yahoo's already done, and admit Facebook pretty much owns the social graph? After all, Facebook has already admitted Google owns search. And it's using Google to leverage its own platform, in many ways. Google [...]
I finally read Ken Auletta's New Yorker piece about Google this past weekend, and of course with 20/20 hindsight enjoyed the vignette of Karmazin complaining about Google's plan for advertising transparency. David Carr's piece in the Times this morning is a good companion.
It’s a wan reminder that [...]
From the Google Social Web Blog (I have to admit it's hard for me to see those four words together without busting out a silly grin):
Today, we're bringing Twitter and Friend Connect even closer together. Now you can join one of' [...]
I subscribe to an ego search via Google Web alerts, which is separate from Google News alerts. Normally, I get one or two of these a day - typically after one of my columns go live or when I post here.
However, in the last couple of days [...]
Google today announced a new policy in its ongoing attempt to reach detente with an increasingly querulous publishing industry. (For background, read Mashable's piece).
A key piece of the new policy has to do with changes to Google's "First Click Free" program. From Google's' [...]
The newspaper business model is powerless to compensate for falling
print ad revenues, and the problem is not going to go away. The print
model cannot and will not migrate to the Internet, where there is a
"revenue black hole," in which 76 percent of all online revenues go to
Google [...] 
When Google Scholar launched five years ago on the Web, its aggregation of freely available scientific literature and citations launched some sizable seismic activity in publishing circles. All of a sudden, content that had been aggregated only via expensive subscription database services was available for [...] MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Ooyala, the online video services company started by ex-Googlers, is developing realtime analytics for video producers to closely monitor the success of their content.
We spoke with company CTO Sean Knapp for this overview on the value and utility of analytics. Sean came from [...]
