Internet search giant Google Inc is known for hosting the most extravagant holiday parties in Silicon Valley, often drawing crowds of over 10,000 and prompting some employees to post ads for party dates on classifieds Website Craigslist.
Online virtual worlds were dealt a heavy helping of reality this week. First off, Google announced that its Lively experiment will shut down at the end of the year. The Web-based portal to all things virtual only started in July, making this one of Google?s shorter experiments.
The search giant’s Google Gadgets platform is adopting the open authentication standard for controlling privacy. Move follows June move to use OAuth for the Google Data API.
Google Inc said it would shut down its three-dimensional virtual experience website by year end to focus more on its core search, advertisements and applications business.
The question on the table is ?Google violates its ?don?t be evil? motto.? You can vote ?yes? or ?no? yourself in the comments below. But first read some of the arguments put forward in an Oxford-style debate on the question held this week in Manhattan by Intelligence Squared US , a project of the Rozenkranz Foundation that runs a series of such discussions.
What happens when a business throws out its scheduling and collaboration tools and replaces them with Google’s low-cost, online business software? To find out, we at Blumsday migrated our entire shop of roughly a dozen employees and contractors to test out Google Apps.
Yahoo is coming out from the Jerry Yang era with a share price unseen since the aftermath of the bursting of the Internet bubble, and with rival Google in firmer command of the market for online search.
A judge has tentatively approved a settlement of lawsuits between Google and book authors and publishers that may put millions of out-of-print texts online.
Google is getting caught in a web of privacy laws that threaten its growth and the positive image it has cultivated as a company dedicated to doing good.
Sam Gustin writes: Google’s much-ballyhooed voice-based search application for Apple’s iPhone was a no-show last Friday. But after a mysterious delay, the service is set to launch today, according to TechCrunch.When word surfaced last week that Google planned to introduce …
