iPhone Google Search News and Google iPhone Search News
Google announced new improvements to the “integrated Google experience” on iPhone. Call the GOOGiPhone upgrade what you like. It’s still all about search. iPhone Google 1.0 UI — only 30 something days old — combined Google web applications (Google Search, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader for RSS feeds) in a single interface. Now Google has [...]
An Open Letter to Google Engineering: Please Slow Down a Little
We really do love your software. And we appreciate the fact that you introduce valuable new features so frequently. But please: slow down a little, and spend a bit more time on bug testing. In the time-honored model of software development (call it “pre-Web 1.0″), teams of programmers worked for years to craft scores of [...]
Search Headlines & Links: November 6, 2007
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog: Justifying the Investment in Industry ConferencesGoing to industry conferences is expensive, no doubt. But it would cost you more in [...]
Yahoo announces Fireeagle
Michael Arrington at Techcrunch reported that Yahoo is announcing fireeagle, which is a new service for obtaining geo-location information, storing it, and making it available to other web applications. This is a technology coming out of Yahoo Brickhouse, a semi-autonomous Yahoo group focused on new product development. Evidently, the whole system is permission based, which [...]
Google to Launch OpenSocial APIs
Shortly after losing out to Microsoft in its efforts to woo social network du jour Facebook, Google has unveiled OpenSocial, a set of common APIs to be backed by Google and an alliance of social sites including LinkedIn, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning. The strategy is meant to attract developers to an open platform, as Facebook [...]
Mozilla Focuses Web Apps Through Prism
A new project from the Mozilla Foundation, called Prism, lets people split web applications out of the browser and run them on the desktop.Prism is Windows only right now, but Mac and Linux versions have been promised and are in the works. “Prism isn’t a new platform, it’s simply the web platform integrated into the [...]
Google Docs Drops In Folders
The updated Google Docs & Spreadsheets offers folders for organizing documents, along with a few new enhancements.Google’s love of labels as organization method, especially in Gmail, tends to be a little jarring to people who have become used to folders. Those users will find something of a comfort zone in Google Docs and its newest [...]
iPhone 2.0 Already?
Apple’s iPhone is going 2.0 before 1.0 is even released. The company announced that when the much-anticipated phone ships at the end of this month, it will run third-party applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards. That leaves an open field for aspiring developers as long they create applications that can integrate seamlessly with iPhone [...]
Google Gears Grind Out Web Apps
Google announced an open source browser extension that enables web applications to run offline.Google wrapped up its Developer Day in Sydney, Australia, with a handful of announcements. One of them will help make its many applications available to people who are temporarily without a web connection, like business travelers. “Unfortunately, today’s web browsers lack some [...]
BlueTie: Helping Hand To Small Businesses
Small businesses often times struggle to keep up with big conglomerates, but now they have an opportunity to function as a big company without the additional manpower. In an interview with WebProNews at the Web 2.0 Expo, BlueTie Founder and President David Koretz explained to us how his company makes this possible. Koretz founded BlueTie [...]
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