YouTube And Google Earth Demo The Talk Of Davos

@ TechCrunch: YouTube And Google Earth Demo The Talk Of Davos:

"Last year I blogged about the YouTube corner at the World Economic Forum event in Davos, Switzerland. They had prime real estate between the main conference area and private meeting rooms, and heads of state, business executives, Nobel Laureates and rock stars strolled by and stopped to leave a video."

Not really a surprise as it will probably be the infrastructure for a gezillion videos on demand on the Home TV.

Telephone+ TV+ Search + big filing cabinet = Internet.
Google owns Telephone and Search. If Gdrive works, that's the big filing cabinet. YouTube should be the TV part.

Next stop is publishing in the physical world. That means Print.

Wal-Mart Pushes Green Outside U.S. Borders - Environment

Wal-Mart Pushes Green Outside U.S. Borders - Environment

Wal-Mart Pushes Green Outside U.S. Borders
NaturalPath Media - found this 45 hours ago on www.environmentalleader.com (flag)
Wal-Mart announced this week goals to reduce phosphates in products in the Americas region by 70 percent by 2011. The move is part of a larger environmental plan for the region, which will also include more sustainable packaging. Phosphates, a chemical commonly found in laundry and dish

.."Maybe Wal-mart will buy some newspapers? Turn them into community based regional papers and set up Publishing Centers to attract new talent + change the perception of their brand?

Wal-Mart, other blue chips buck crisis in bond market | Reuters

@Wal-Mart, other blue chips buck crisis in bond market | Reuters: "By Dena Aubin - Analysis

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As markets brace for the worst corporate defaults since the Great Depression, torrents of cash are flowing to America's highest-quality companies, pushing their borrowing costs to record or multiyear lows."

I guess they also missed the news about the financial meltdown. Wonder if they might be interested in being a channel for Community Based Publishing? Or maybe they would be interested in setting up Publishing Centers, next to their drug stores?

Wal-Mart Foundation Gives $800,000 in Grants Across Arkansas

@Wal-Mart Foundation Gives $800,000 in Grants Across Arkansas:

"The Wal-Mart Foundation today announced $843,000 in contributions to local non-profit organizations and projects across Arkansas."

Economic Stimulus anyone?

Wal-Mart to begin construction

MorganHillTimes.com | Wal-Mart to begin construction:

"Retail giant Wal-Mart pulled building permits this week from the City of Morgan Hill for its planned store in Cochrane Plaza.

Already, Wal-Mart's presumed contractor, Shales Construction, has erected green construction fencing around the old Target store, where the shop will be located."

I guess they missed the news that the sky is falling.

Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students | Education IT | ZDNet.com

@ Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students | Education IT | ZDNet.com:

"Every day, I look for ways to make the OS less relevant and make kids’ work accessible to them anytime, anywhere. I can’t do this just yet for my secretaries and some serious power users. They rely at least on the full feature set (or a significant subset) of OpenOffice, and a select few are using Office 2007/2008 for all it’s worth (detractors aside, it’s worth quite a lot)."

Google + Cloud Content + Dell, et al = deep shit for textbook publishers.

Why a 'Google Web Drive' Won't Kill Windows, the PC or Anything Else | Epicenter from Wired.com

@ Why a 'Google Web Drive' Won't Kill Windows, the PC or Anything Else | Epicenter from Wired.com:

"Rumors of the GDrive, Google’s supposed answer to online file storage, are bubbling up again. The fabled GDrive is by far the most clamored-for Google service that, so far anyway, has yet to see the light of day. We’ve been hearing about a Google Drive online storage solution for years, but lately some tell-tale signs seem to point toward GDrive becoming a reality."

Ya think?

Rumour: Google to buy Skype | News | TechRadar UK - PC Hardware

@Rumour: Google to buy Skype | News | TechRadar UK - PC Hardware: "

Rumour: Google to buy Skype | News | TechRadar UK Links3
Maximum PC all RSS Feed found this 3 days ago on www.techradar.com (flag)
Leading VoIP service Skype goes from strength to strength, with revenues rising by 26 per cent last quarter. Yet despite this success, parent company eBay is rumoured to be looking to offload its cash-cow to none other than Google. The rumours seem credible when you consider that eBay's latest"

Internet = telephone + TV + Search + a big filing cabinet.

Google shamed by Low Countries search • The Register

Google shamed by Low Countries search • The Register: "

As Google and Yahoo! play Privacy Theatre, at least one search engine has realized your personal data is not a toy.

Today - aka Data Privacy Day 2009 - Netherlands-based search engine Ixquick told the world it will no longer log user IPs. In the past, the privacy-obsessed outfit stored IP addresses for only 48 hours, but it has now shunned the practice entirely."

The tricky part is that the movement in advertising is to geo location. No IP addresses, no geo information? I'm not a geek, so I don't know for sure, but . . . .

Is Google Too Big To Fail? - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers - Portfolio.com

@ Is Google Too Big To Fail? - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers - Portfolio.com: "

Robert Cottrell has a provocative post about the cloud today. Is the future of information in the cloud? Robert has his doubts:"

Are nation states defined by imaginary lines on the ground after WWI and WWII too big to fail? How about gerrymandered congressional districts?

Around the Web 1.29.09: All Google all the time | Technology | Los Angeles Times

@ Around the Web 1.29.09: All Google all the time | Technology | Los Angeles Times:

"President Obama and Google CEO Eric Schmidt-- At Google's D.C. inauguration bash, Craigslist's Craig Newmark said to keep an eye on Google project manager Katie Jacobs Stanton. Booyah.

Google+NoDrama Obama = Government Information Infrastructure.

How Much Should We Let Companies Snoop? | Epicenter from Wired.com

@ How Much Should We Let Companies Snoop? | Epicenter from Wired.com:

"I just had a very fun debate/conversation on bloggingheadstv with Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology. The subject was the story Fred Vogelstein and I recently wrote called The Plot to Kill Google, and the particular topic was privacy.

We began by discussing part of the article's thesis: privacy is going to be a huge debate in the next year, in large part because a group of companies that don't like Google seem it as the best way to go after the search company. If they can paint the Mountain View company as a sprawling snooper, they can weaken it and thus gain leverage in all sorts of other areas."

In Google Mart information is the infrastructure. Infrastructure needs regulation. What is going to change isthe cultural definition of "privacy."

Offline Gmail Takes You One Step Closer to Email Nirvana

Offline Gmail Takes You One Step Closer to Email Nirvana:

"hen Google launched Gmail's IMAP capabilities last year, it thrust the ubiquitous Web-based mail service into the limelight as a true contender for enterprise use. Even though it's tightly integrated with Google Apps, a powerful suite of business tools, many people still shunned Gmail citing about a lack of offline accessibility. Gmail users, rejoice. Now there's Offline Gmail.

"Email is the killer AP. The web is Telephone+TV+Search + as big filing cabinet. It's driven by Telephone. Email is telephone.

Google M-Labs: Your Personal Traffic Cop - The Channel Wire - IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness

@Google M-Labs: Your Personal Traffic Cop - The Channel Wire - IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness:

"Google M-Labs: Your Personal Traffic Cop
Streaming video, BitTorrent and e-mailing photos are all dependent on the speed of a broadband connection. Recently, there has been news that some ISPs are planning to impose rate limits on customer connections that can throttle how quickly broadband operates. Google doesn't think that's fair and has created Measurement Labs (or M-Labs) to let users fight back.

"Not a bad idea if you have the biggest baddest server farms on the planet.

� More traces of GDrive popping up | Googling Google | ZDNet.com

@ More traces of GDrive popping up | Googling Google | ZDNet.com: "

Traces of GDrive have been extremely difficult, or impossible, to find in the wild — until recently that is. This higher rate of GDrive related discoveries tells me that the service is sure to be a released as a real product at some point, hopefully soon."

Time to buy umbrellas for the Google Cloud?

Take a Peek at the Google Drive - PC World

@ Take a Peek at the Google Drive - PC World:

"Google's long-awaited online storage tool, dubbed the Google Drive, may soon be a reality. A detailed description of the GDrive was found in a file used by Google Pack, a suite of Google desktop programs, by blogger Brian Ussery."

The Cloud is forming. It's been a long time forming, but getting very close.

Exclusive: Obama taps former Google manager (Dealscape)

Exclusive: Obama taps former Google manager (Dealscape):

"The White House has confirmed to The Deal that former Google Inc. executive Katie Jacobs Stanton has been hired. A spokesperson could not confirm her exact title, which AllthingsD.com reported late Wednesday night will be the very Web 2.0-sounding position of 'director of citizen participation."

Education, health and government are the growing markets. Google fan gathering + No Drama Obama building the communication infrastructure.

Dell Reentering The Mobile Phone Market With Google Android? - G4tv.com

Dell Reentering The Mobile Phone Market With Google Android? - G4tv.com:

"It looks like Dell is set to reenter the mobile-phone business. At least that's the story according to The Wall Street Journal. While the promise of a Windows Mobile phone from Dell is kind of dull, the potential of a Dell phone running Google Android is the hotness. The WSJ has reported:"

Dell+Google vs iPhone +ATT? I'm betting on a real horse race that is just going to speed up adoption of ubiquitous computing. Can't wait until Dell or ???? starts doing ebooks v Kindle. I figure Dell on the ground+ Google in the Cloud is a real match for Kindle+Amazon in the Cloud. Download a book for $1 instead of $9.95.? And when they focus on textbooks, who exactly is going to pay $35 for a textbook that might cost $10? Too bad the knol project didn't scale. Maybe when the knol writers can get textbook royalties. . . .

ABC News: Swiss Police Spy Marijuana Field With Google Earth

@ ABC News: Swiss Police Spy Marijuana Field With Google Earth:

"Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company's satellite mapping software."

Consider the size of the shadow economy of crime and how it has erupted in "global terrorism."

Mapping and Animating Growth of Target Across United States | FlowingData

@ FlowingData:

"After I produced a map that shows the growth of Walmart, there were tons of comments that were along the lines of, 'I would love to see this for insert company here.' I was happy to see the enthusiasm, but the hard part is getting the data for all store locations and opening dates."

Very cool maps.

Springsteen calls Wal-Mart deal a mistake

@The Associated Press:

"In an interview with The New York Times, Bruce Springsteen says he shouldn't have made a deal with Wal-Mart. This month, the store started exclusively selling a Springsteen greatest-hits CD.

Some fans were critical because Springsteen has been a longtime supporter of worker's rights, and Wal-Mart has faced criticism for its labor practices. Springsteen's team didn't vet the issue as closely as it should have, and that he 'dropped the ball on it,' he told the Times for a story to be published in Sunday editions and previewed on its Web site"

The long term value is the fans. Short term gains can mess up long term values.

The Clinton Herald, Clinton, Iowa - Eco Tourism Center receives Wal-Mart grant

@The Clinton Herald, Clinton, Iowa

"Eco Tourism Center receives Wal-Mart grant

CLINTON — Sen. Roger Stewart and Rep. Polly Bukta helped the Clinton County Conservation Foundation accept a $30,000 donation from the Wal-Mart Foundation during an event Friday at the Clinton Wal-Mart store."

Eco tourism could be a growing sector.

Google Ad Platform Supplies Better Viewer Data 01/30/2009

read at MediaPost
"Google TV Ads, the TV advertising platform for TV advertisers, is offering new time-shifting viewership data for its TV advertiser clients.

Google says the information gives clients insight into how and when viewers see their commercials in playback, adding five new slots of programming to its live data: live plus same day, live plus one day, live plus two day, live plus three days, and live plus seven day data."

Google's GDrive Could Replace your Hard Disk

read at Techtree.com India
Techtree News Staff, Jan 27, 2009 1254 hrs IST

This drive will allow users to save their data online and users will be able to access their data from any computer in the world.

Taking cloud computing to a new level, Google is soon going to launch 'GDrive', a long-rumored online storage for its users."

Search Market Share 2008: Google Grew, Yahoo & Microsoft Dropped & Stabilized

read at SeachEngineLand:
"Jan 26, 2009 at 2:49pm ET by Danny Sullivan

With 2008 behind us, I wanted to look back and plot how search engine market share changed over the year in the United States. No surprises here. Pick your numbers, Google grew and grew. Yahoo and Microsoft dropped by lately have leveled off.

Before we do the pretty pictures, I’ll repeat my standing philosophy about search market share figures:"

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Google is growing a TV network. As computer to TV screen comes on line, this could turn out to be a big deal. Q: How to monetize You Tube? A: Become a TV network and sell advertising.
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Survey of video consumer habits at Digital Landscapes.

Urban China has the largest percent of users who watch online video via their PCs, at 97 percent, with the U.S. following at 81 percent.

- The U.S. has the largest percentage of users watching video on a mobile phone, at 23 percent. U.S. respondents who watch video on their mobile phone spend an average of 36 minutes per day doing so.

- Eighty-five percent of the German respondents are interested in viewing Internet video on their TV sets, compared with 55 percent of Swedes, 54 percent of Americans, and 35 percent of urban Chinese.