I'm excited to join my friend Gina Trapani as a guest on This Week in Google on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. ET. The show has Google in the name, but it's really about all things cloud-related -- Google, Facebook, Twitter, and more.
It's a busy week for cloud news. Twitter updated its policy on removing copyright-infringing tweets to make the process more transparent, and it launched its page for Election Day 2012. I'm going to resist checking that page, and avoid election news until Wednesday, when --
Oh, who am I kidding? I'm going to be glued to Internet election news all night like a dog watching someone eat a messy cheeseburger.
In Google news, Android turned five years old. A federal judge threw out a lawsuit by Apple charging that Google is seeking unreasonably high licensing fees for patents.
I don't know which, if any, of those stories we'll be talking about, but it's sure to be fun and informative. Tune in to the live video or audio, join the chatroom, or do as I often do and just listen to the podcast while taking a constitutional around Lake Murray. (Well, it might be inconvenient for you to get to Lake Murray, but I'm sure you can find somewhere else to listen.)
My only regrets are that Leo Laporte, the genial regular host, and regular co-host Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? and Gutenberg the Geek, are off this week, so I won't get to talk with them.
I did it on video, Michelle - Skype, to be exact. First time I'd used Skype in a long time -- I forgot until the day before that I didn't even have it installed anymore. I hope you enjoy the show!
I'm happy you were on the show! Did you drive to the new studio or join by video? This week in Google is one of my favorite shows. I'll tune in to the recorded version later today. Gina was on IE radio a few years ago, perhaps you can convince her to visit for another show soon. I would be nice to have Jeff on too.
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Catch up on the week with one simple serving of Friday File. We've pieced together 10 interesting news bites you may have missed and put them together in bite-size morsels.
I've been excited by a few technology announcements, and bored by many, but Google's I/O announcement this week is the first where I found myself getting choked up and teary.
What's the prognosis for telehealth? Medical professionals have technologies they need; some state legislatures are enacting supportive laws, and both employers and employees tout the benefits. Yet other states have let proposals wither, insurers aren't sure how to charge for services, and physicians worry about liability and patient care.
Mozilla has a bold strategy to create a new model of mobile OS by making HTML5 essentially a part of the operating system, creating an open developer framework for future apps. The question is whether they're sincerely trying to elevate HTML5 or to get back at Google for Chrome's success.
Google's Chrome and Web Store for Chrome are illustrating a new model for online services, a model based on payment and not just on ads. That may be critical for the Internet’s expansion, but will people really pay?
"Social Enterprise" is an increasingly trendy term, and Salesforce.com has been leading the way. At its Dreamforce conference last week, the theme was clear: From here on, enterprise applications must have social capabilities built in.
The Amazon smartphone rumor and the Apple mini-iPad rumor show that the mobile device giants think they have to be in all the device spaces to win. Why? Because the cloud can create an ecosystem where every device can cooperate to support the user, and if you don't supply all the devices you miss out on the total value.
Mozilla's Firefox OS could be a major advance in building smartphones and tablets with a more cloud-friendly and open interface, but there are still questions of performance and security that will have to be managed.
Google Maps 6.0 helps users navigate indoor locations like IKEA and airports. While this sounds good, Nicole fears it will also breed dumber humans who bump into each other a lot, or something.
Congrats to the best-selling author who persuaded Facebook to allow him to register an account as Salman, rather than under his "real" but never used name, Ahmed Rushdie.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
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