Google, The Third Company To Connect Data Portability This Week. Who’s Going To Be Connect Four?
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | 218 Views“Social is in the air.”
-David Glazer, Director of Engineering, Google
Facebook and MySpace announced this past week that they are making profile data portable if a user chooses to. MySpace is calling this feature Data Portability and Facebook is calling it Facebook Connect. And now Google is launching the same feature, but calling it Friend [...]
How Google Got Their Groove Back
1 COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 | 281 ViewsA few months ago, the hype of Google was overshadowed by the potential of a combined Yahoo! and Microsoft. This caused Google’s stock to plummet even though the company had a few powerful mainstream initiatives such as OpenSocial and Android. Google countered Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! by offering an advertisement partnership to the search [...]
iGoogle Has The Symptoms Of A Social Network
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Monday, April 21st, 2008 | 312 ViewsThere is a lot of hype in the Web 2.0 community revolving around setting up an ideal homepage. Within the last decade, a simple search engine was common to have as a browser starting point. But today’s web users want widgets quickly telling them what their stock values are, how much money [...]
Google Finance Needs A Better Blog Post Aggregating Algorithm
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Saturday, April 19th, 2008 | 383 ViewsBlogs have important role in corporate affairs. The upper management of major corporations have started their own blogs to show that they are transparent. The importance of content published in blogs in epitomized by an occurence of when Engadget published an article related to iPhone and Leopard operating distribution delays, instantly knocking [...]
Google Maps Now Has YouTube Geocoded Videos Embedded
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 | 277 ViewsThe gap between software, Google Earth and and web service, Google Maps is closing. Google Earth has New York Times articles and YouTube features built-in. Today, it has been revealed that Google Maps is now getting YouTube videos embedded into the search results also.
Below is a sample screen shot of YouTube embedded [...]
Yahoo! Acquires Visitor Tracking Software, IndexTools
3 COMMENTS | Amit Chowdhry | Saturday, April 12th, 2008 | 343 Views“Yahoo! believes that the ability to generate the most valuable and relevant insights is essential to seizing market opportunities and creating successful campaigns,” stated Bassel Ojjeh, Senior VP and head of Yahoo!’s Strategic Data Solutions group. “We expect that the IndexTools’ technology platform will provide our customers the opportunity to more quickly uncover and [...]
Google’s Muscle, Frank P. Quattron Spots Eric Schmidt
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | 271 ViewsFrank P. Quattron has had somewhat of a tumultuous history. While the former Credit Suisse First Boston executive has earned over $200 million, he sent an e-mail to employees recommending to delete e-mails related to the buying of promising IPO stocks.
Despite wrongdoings, Quattron is back and advising the fastest growing search engine company [...]
Microsoft, News Corp., AOL, Google, and Legg Mason All Want A Piece of Yahoo!
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | 424 ViewsYahoo! Inc. has become the apple of every company’s eye. Microsoft, News Corp., AOL, Google, and Legg Mason are all interested in a deal with Yahoo!
AOL, subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX)
Time Warner’s AOL LLC is looking to repurchase some of Yahoo!’s shares above Microsoft’s offer of $31 per share and essentially AOL [...]
Google Launches Gadget Builder For Organizations
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | 279 Views“Gadgets — which are basically interactive and dynamic mini-billboards — are one of the fastest growing applications at Google,” stated Samantha Crow, Product Marketing Manager at iGoogle. “They’re the foundation for iGoogle, the personalized version of the Google homepage that has tens of millions of users. They can also be included on most any [...]
