Users who want to take advantage of the new feature can visit news.google.com on their smart phone and enable location sharing to see the “News near you” section at the bottom.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Google News Goes Local
Google now allows users to view location based news, localized by zip code.
Users who want to take advantage of the new feature can visit news.google.com on their smart phone and enable location sharing to see the “News near you” section at the bottom.
Users who want to take advantage of the new feature can visit news.google.com on their smart phone and enable location sharing to see the “News near you” section at the bottom.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Google Studies Smart Phone Behavior
Smart phone behavior is important for any number of reasons, in particular to the extent that the behavior itself creates the opportunity for all sorts of innovations that can lead to new businesses being created.
For example, 71 percent of smart phone users search because of an ad they’ve seen either online or offline.
About 82 percent of smart phone users notice mobile ads. Some 74 percent of smart phone shoppers make a purchase as a result of using their smartphones to help with shopping. Also, 88 percent of those who look for local information on their smartphones take action within a day.
For example, 71 percent of smart phone users search because of an ad they’ve seen either online or offline.
About 82 percent of smart phone users notice mobile ads. Some 74 percent of smart phone shoppers make a purchase as a result of using their smartphones to help with shopping. Also, 88 percent of those who look for local information on their smartphones take action within a day.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Blogger Outage Caused by "Data Corruption"
Google's Blogger service was restored on April 13, 2011, after a global outage that lasted at least 20.5 hours.
"During scheduled maintenance work Wednesday night, we experienced some data corruption that impacted Blogger’s behavior," the company says on the Blogger blog. "Since then, bloggers and readers may have experienced a variety of anomalies including intermittent outages, disappearing posts, and arriving at unintended blogs or error pages."
A small subset of Blogger users (Google estimates 0.16 percent) may have encountered additional problems specific to their accounts.
All day April 12, 2011, Google put Blogger in read-only mode while restoring content. As part of the repair process, Blogger rolled back to a Wednesday May 11th version, leading to deletion of material on a temporarily basis.
In the afternoon of April 13, Twitter is reporting service disruptions as well.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Now Twitter is "Having Stability Issues"
Experiencing site stability issues 1 hour ago
We are currently experiencing site stability issues. There may be intermittent issues loading twitter.com and Twitter clients. We’re working to fix it as soon as possible.Google "Blogger" has just been restored, after a global outage that lasted more than 24 hours. Now Twitter says it has an outage.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
How "Open" is Android?
Engineering always involves tradeoffs. Smaller size might be an advantage, but smaller size limits input and output options. Bigger smart phone screens are a plus, but at the cost of battery life. More features can enhance user experience, but means more complexity. "Open" systems encourage innovation, at the cost of standardization and interoperability.
As it turns out, Android code is made available without charge to device manufacturers, but those manufacturers must adhere to a “compatibility” standard determined by Google. Some will complain about the threat to "openness." Others will cheer the consumer interface advantages, among them the assurance that software and hardware actually works.
Observers have faulted Android for its fragmentation, over the last year, for example, a somewhat inevitable result of allowing choices. But Android seems to realize it has to limit the amount of freedom developers have, in order to ensure that users and customers can be sure "Android" apps and devices actually work on the devices they buy.
As it turns out, Android code is made available without charge to device manufacturers, but those manufacturers must adhere to a “compatibility” standard determined by Google. Some will complain about the threat to "openness." Others will cheer the consumer interface advantages, among them the assurance that software and hardware actually works.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Dish Network Might Offer "Early Release" VOD
Dish Network is considering offering an "early release" video-on-demand for films that are about eight weeks out of theaters, similar to what DirecTV already offers. The DirecTV offer shows new-release movies about eight weeks after they have ended theater exhibition, for a $30 price.
Dish is in negotiations with Hollywood studios and no final decision has been made on whether to introduce the service.
Dish is in negotiations with Hollywood studios and no final decision has been made on whether to introduce the service.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Google Launches "Google Guides" Program
Apple has for decades made quite a decent business supporting the education market, and then reaping benefits as those users moved along in life.
Google is trying something similar, launching a program to turn its college Google Apps users into evangelists as they hit the workplace.
"If you attended a university that’s “gone Google” or just sought out Google products on your own, you’ve learned how to use Apps to collaborate and communicate with your professors and peers," Google says.
"With this in mind, we’ve created the Google Guides program to help you take your Google Apps expertise to your future job."
"With this in mind, we’ve created the Google Guides program to help you take your Google Apps expertise to your future job."
"When you become a Google Guide, we’ll equip you with resources to introduce and implement Apps in your workplace."
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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