27 Sep 07 Google’s 9th Birthday
It’s hard to remember a time when Google wasn’t around. Now they seem to be at the center of your online world, be it thru Google Search, Gmail, Google News, Google Reader, Google Docs and the list goes on and on.
Today Google turns 9, and I’d personally like to thank them for their services. I don’t think I would of made it this far in San Francisco without Google Maps on my iPhone.
28 Jun 07 Google Talk on the iPhone
Apple has stated that web 2.0 (read ajaxy) web sites will work on the iPhone. Flash and Java are not supported in the iPhones version of Safari. Well after going to Google’s Talk Gadget with Java and Flash turned off on Safari, the program works like a chucking farm. It even includes the option for multi-user chat, a feature still absent from the desktop and Gmail client. Apple may of forgot iChat on the iPhone, but IM is alive and well with Google Talk.Google has also been colobrating with Apple closely on the iPhone, so is this going to be the official Gtalk client for the iPhone or will Apple/Google be releasing an app for the iPhone?
Update: Turns out that this does need Flash, which isn’t included on the iPhone to work. Oh well, no IM on the iPhone.
11 Jun 07 Google Talk to Work on iPhone
Here me out on the logic here. Steve Jobs announced that iPhone apps will all run through rich pages created through Safari on the iPhone. Google has already been working on an ajax’y version of Google Talk, and you can put it right on the main screen of your iGoogle page.
So, one could conclude that Google Talk will work on the iPhone, thus solving my problems in switching to the iPhone…June 29th here I come.
24 May 07 Google Buys FeedBurner for $100 Million
Congrats to one of my favorite RSS companies out there, who were purchased by Google for $100,000,000. That’s a lot of zeros, granted not as many as YouTube, but this deal is all in cash money. Feedburner has become a popular tool for bloggers, podcasters and video podcasters because of its ability to translate one feed into many different types of feeds and because it offers a wide range of statistics. The company was founded in 2003 and raised $10 million in VC, meaning quite a payday for everyone involved. Congrats to the team over there.
One question I have, is people who use FeedBurner’s FAN service, will they be able to get Google Ads even if they’ve been booted from Adsense?
