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One of the more notable announcements in the last month was that of Google’s Cloud Platform Partner Program. The platform currently offers Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage. The partner program is designed to extend the use of these applications by allowing integration of other Technology Partner applications as well as expanding implementation options […]

Apparently Google Chrome is now the world’s most popular web browser.  Ho-hum. Google also has the most popular search engine, but “most popular” doesn’t necessarily mean “best”.  Just ask 1990.  Some of you might remember that Milli Vanilli won a Grammy award that year.  Sheer populism is a mistake we often make in our modern […]

Google just announced its cloud storage service called Drive that offers 5 GB of free storage, mobile access (except iOS, but coming), and integration with Google Docs. Drive is the latest entry in a growing market of cloud storage providers.  My colleague Michael Porter recently posted a story about VMWare’s plans to create a private enterprise version of […]

Techcrunch has an article out about why Apple and Facebook should be terrified of Google Glasses.  I think the idea of the glasses has merit although I suspect the first iteration of these things will need a lot of work.  But given what they could do for you and how they could integration voice, map/directions, […]

CRN has a short article about the latest update to Google Docs and better mobile support, especially for the Android.  While anyone who follows the mobile world won’t be surprised by the content, it’s probably a good time to reflect on larger implications…………………. One of my recent clients had taken a close look at Google […]

Mashable.com has an interesting article about up and comer Pinterest.  I have to admit, I hadn’t even heard about it until about two weeks ago when  a colleague raved about how great Pinterest was and how easy it was to capture your interests from a variety of places and pin them to your page.   Little […]

Mashable.com has an interesting article about up and comer Pinterest.  I have to admit, I hadn’t even heard about it until about two weeks ago when  a colleague raved about how great Pinterest was and how easy it was to capture your interests from a variety of places and pin them to your page.   Little […]

eWeek has an interesting slideshow out about a slew of new or upgraded tools from Google.   Leave it to Google to improve on things like Maps while continuing to forge into realms unknown like Big Data. Here’s the short list: BigQuery Google Maps API: Drawing Library sfntly Google Calendar API version 3 Google Closure Style […]

I just read an interesting article about Google Plus as a search ranking tool by Kelvin Newman. He posted it back in July but for it’s age it’s still very interesting.  I’ve wondered myself why Google decided to join the fray and compete against a facebook behemoth that already has the advantage of millions of […]

I just read an interesting article about Google Plus as a search ranking tool by Kelvin Newman. He posted it back in July but for it’s age it’s still very interesting.  I’ve wondered myself why Google decided to join the fray and compete against a facebook behemoth that already has the advantage of millions of […]

Over in CNNMoney.com, Kevin Kellehar is trying to argue that Google is a really a web portal (see Face it Google, You’re a Portal).  The logic is that if you aggregate content on the web, then yes, you are a portal.  Yahoo and MSN are web portals too, but we kinda knew that.  But Google?  […]

Tech Crunch has an article about new plans for embedding new functionality into the browser.  Actually both Google and Mozilla are working on putting “web intents” into their browsers. Today, Google has announced that it’s planning to integrate Web Intents into Chrome. The news comes on the heels of Mozilla’s announcement last month that it […]