The always canny Danny Sullivan has a piece that calls for the Associated Press and Google to reveal the terms of any business agreements they may come to. He notes that the AP and Google first made a content licensing agreement back in 2006, and lately the AP has been making noises about extracting more [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Google'
“Google and the AP Should Reveal Their Licensing Terms”. Should They Really?
May 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Google, News
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Google vs. the “Tyranny of Data”
May 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Content, Community, Google, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology
Link: Should Design Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data?
The Times’ “Bits” blog today chased the two-month-old story of Doug Bowman, who left Google for Twitter in March. Bowman’s story wasn’t particularly remarkable aside from the fact that he has a great reputation and was expected to have quite an impact when he joined [...]
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Product Managers, Lawyers, and Google Chrome
September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Google, Open Source, Platforms
Product managers have an interesting relationship with corporate attorneys. In my various product management jobs I had to deal with attorneys quite a bit, but this kind of interaction clearly doesn’t happen often enough, for reasons I can sort of understand (lawyers can be intimidating, they frequently say “no” in a overly authoritative way that [...]
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Google App Engine: Fish or Foul?
April 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Google, Virtualization, Web/Tech
We’ve been paying attention to the launch of Google App Engine over the past day and a half and we will continue to keep an eye on it on behalf of our consulting clients. As is often the case with paradigm-challenging products, people often try to characterize the new thing in terms of what they [...]
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Dear OpenSocialTards,
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Google, Yahoo
Link: Announcing the OpenSocial Foundation
Banding together to make a half-dozen social networks interoperable is not the same as having critical mass. It is the equivalent of having fifteen women band together to give birth to a child.
Also, creating a nonprofit foundation to manage your endeavor does not automatically make you equivalent to Firefox.
Cheers. I’m always [...]
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Why Your Business Blog Shouldn’t Be On BlogSpot.com
February 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments · Google
Link: Why Your Business Blog Shouldn’t Be On BlogSpot.com.
"No problem, we thought, Google is nice enough to provide a programming interface to support this. In fact, they have multiple such APIs (application programming interfaces). As it turns out, neither of the versions of these interfaces that Google provides works completely. One version doesn’t let you [...]
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Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook
October 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Google, Platforms, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology, Web/Tech
Link: Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook
“On Thursday, an alliance of companies led by Google plans to begin introducing a common set of standards to allow software developers to write programs for Google’s social network, Orkut, as well as others, including LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster and Ning, according to people briefed on the plans. [...]
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Google’s Muni Wifi Contingency Plan
September 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Google
It looks like Google had a contingency plan for municipal wi-fi in San Francisco in the event that Earthlink cratered. Last night I got an email from my ISP, Sonic.net, that said they’re going to try build an open wireless grid in partnership with Google using existing customers’ internet connections.
I sent this over to Om [...]
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Google: Meg Whitman is Not To Be Screwed With
June 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Google
Link: eBay pulls U.S. ads from Google AdWords network
"eBay has pulled its advertising from Google’s AdWords network in the United States, an eBay spokesman said on Wednesday. Technology trade publication Computerworld, which originally reported the move, cited a source as saying it was in response to Google’s decision to hold a party starting at [...]
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How To Be Recruited By Google
May 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Google, How-Tos
My pal Jeff Barr of Amazon posted on his personal blog about how he was interviewed by Google and continues to get pinged by their recruiters after he already gave them a polite "no thanks". He asks whether their recruiters shouldn’t maybe have way of looking up candidates in some sort of database — you [...]
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