Social Networking
Google’s iGoogle Expands
The new iGoogle would yet let people add the same gadgets they used to earlier, but it’s absolutely more geared toward ones, which use the fresh Open Social API. The sandbox border has two novel items — a sidebar, and an “update” list that lets you see what your friends are up to. Sound familiar? That’s right; it’s on the whole Google’s completion of the popular News Feed on Facebook.
Google exceeds its First Quarter expectations
“This is mostly a relief rally,” said Stanford Group analyst Clayton Moran. “People are relieved that things aren’t as bad as they thought.” Google’s worldwide appeal pushed the Mountain View-based company for more than half of its revenue that came from outside the United States for the first time in its nine-and-a-half-year history.
YouTube’s Geotagging now with Google Maps
Yahoo Japan Make Use of Microsoft Silverlight technology
Microsoft Silverlight technology is a very new competitor to Adobe Flash which allows better interactivity on websites. Madison Square Garden Interactive, Tencent, Abertis Telecom, Terra Networks Operations, SBSi, and MNet are some of the other companies that are making use of Silverlight extensively.
Integration of Google and Salesforce augments Google Apps
Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, said, as quoted by PC World: “The combination of our leading CRM applications and Google’s business productivity applications pushes forward the transformation of the industry to cloud computing. The end of software is here.”
The choice was made at the people’s request, Salesforce stated, and so far Salesforce.com customers have also had the opportunity to test the fresh incorporation through its beta version. Moreover, they would further pay no extra charge for the service, the company said.
Google wins in Yahoo-Microsoft battle
“We find this to be a very advantageous situation for Google,” Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown said Thursday. “The longer this gets dragged out, the better for Google.” Yahoo indicated it is stimulating for a long-drawn-out battle late Wednesday when a statement and a media leak offered a sight at its convoluted search for alternatives to Microsoft’s bid of more than $40 billion. “The more complicated a deal gets, the more difficult it becomes to satisfy all parties,” Brown said. “And the more complicated the (post-deal) integration gets, the more it favors Google.”
Google Exposes Google App Engine
Google has recently exposed its Google App Engine, a set of free services for tech developers that would compete squarely with offerings Amazon (AMZN) by now offers. On the gist we can put down this way:
Servers: Amazon’s = EC2; Google’s = Python
Database: Amazon’s = Simple DB; Google’s = BigTable
Storage: Amazon’s = S3; Google’s = GFS.
The good part is that the Google’s package is entirely free, with restrictions on storage, bandwidth and the processor power. Once it is actually out of beta, developers would be capable to go beyond these limitations, but they would certainly be charged for overages. In fact, this is a very appealing direction for Google (GOOG) to take, however it’s not troublesome technology. Like Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets, this is intended straight at any well-known competitor’s offerings.
Yahoo’s Flickr Launches Video Sharing
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) recently announced that its photo-sharing site Flickr.com has introduced video sharing feature, through which expert members could now upload personal video clips and share them online. Flickr’s new video uploading quality would sustain up to 90 seconds of personal video recording recorded with any digital video device comprising still cameras, camcorders and camera phones. The company noted that video on Flickr would further be obtainable in eight languages incorporating English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese.
Google Docs Adds up ‘Save As PPT’ feature
On the other hand, you could as well share your presentations in many other ways: call collaborators and viewers within the Docs, publish your presentation (and share the exclusive URL to the presentation, or even drive in your presentation on a unique website or blog.”
Yahoo rejects three-week deadline of Microsoft
“We continue to believe that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo and our stockholders,” Yahoo’s board chairman Roy Bostock and chief executive Jerry Yang said in a letter to CEO of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer. “We are open to all alternatives that maximize stockholder value. To be clear, this includes a transaction with Microsoft if it represents a price that fully recognizes the value of Yahoo on a standalone basis,” the Yahoo letter said.
The letter came in reply to a challenge issued by Microsoft on Saturday for the Internet giant to agree to its 44.6 billion dollar capture offer in three weeks or face a shareholder proxy fight. Analysts said the conflict of the technology giants appeared to be escalating.