Twitter's Corporate Users Get A New Marketing Tool (9)
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A neat new tool for companies that are looking to use Twitter for marketing: Twittertise, which lets you schedule Twitter messages in advance to send automatically. What's the point? Twitter is a live wire, so whatever you send now is immediate. That works for individual users, or companies trying to take part in real-time conversations. But if a company wants to send out pre-written tweets -- like promotional messages, coupon links, reminders, etc. -- over ...
Forget “The Conquistador”: When Is Microsoft Going to Drop the Other Shoe on Its Conquering Web Strategy? [BoomTown] (1)
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There will be a lot of different reactions to the first of Microsoft’s newest series of commercials, featuring Founder Bill Gates playing straight man to comic Jerry Seinfeld. Set up as a discount shoe-buying skit, Seinfeld helps Gates purchase a pair called “The Conquistador,” and for some Seinfeldesque reason, it’s churros all around. Actually, it feels a lot like the frequent and excellent Microsoft internal spoof videos Gates does with various celebs. I have always ...
What Netscape Founder Thinks About Google Browser (27)
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Marc Andreessen, whose first start-up, Netscape Communications introduce the consumer web to millions, thanks to its Netscape browser, seems to be suitably impressed by Google’s recently released Chrome browser. He waxed eloquent about Chrome during an onstage conversation with Portfolio magazine contributing editor Kevin Maney at The Churchill Club in Palo Alto, Calif. “Any desktop application that has not been implemented in the browser is now going to be implemented in the browser,” Andreessen said. ...
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Pheelmore said:
interesting. the king of browsers should know about this stuff.
IBM Drinks Second Life Kool-Aid, Makes More For Lotus Users (IBM) (2)
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Think Second Life is over? IBM doesn't. Yesterday Big Blue announced it was integrating support for Second Life (and a few other virtual world platforms) into its Lotus Sametime corporate instant-messaging product. Why? IBM thinks if an engineer has to walk a customer through replacing a part on a computer server, the two can meet in Second Life and together manipulate a 3D model. Or, Sametime users could collaborate in a virtual world to review ...
Google Chrome-Induced Déjà Vu (7)
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With all the hype and excitement surrounding the release of Google Chrome yesterday, I, like so many, was eager to try the browser out for myself. What I didn’t expect was the overwhelming sense of déjà vu it would trigger in me. I am a veteran in this industry, one whose first PC was a portable Hyperion I used when managing the sales of some graphics plotters back in the mid-80s. I went on to ...
How to Crash Chrome (5)
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Care to crash Google’s (GOOG) uncrashable Chrome browser? Simply type the characters “:%” in its address bar and then enjoy the error message … (Many thanks to HeWhoCannotBeNamed for the tip.)
The Chrome Browser Stylings of Google’s Sergey Brin (5)
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At the Google launch of its new “not-a-Windows-killer” Chrome browser, held at its Mountain View, Calif., HQ yesterday morning, Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin arrived late and looked casually dressed and very windblown. But he was quite talkative about Google’s Chrome, the software to navigate the Internet that the search giant released yesterday. Brin talked about a lot of aspects of its development and implications, as well as its business prospects for Google (GOOG). (Google’s other ...
Kara Visits the Google Chrome Browser Launch (1)
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Here is a video I did while I was attending and liveblogging the Google launch of and press conference for its new “not-a-Windows-killer” Chrome browser, held at its Mountain View, Calif., HQ yesterday morning. Google (GOOG) released its own software to navigate the Internet yesterday, setting itself up in yet another bruising competition with Microsoft (MSFT). In the video, I reveal my secret Google parking spot, survey the media scrum, bother a Google PR guy, ...
Chrome: Nice, But Not a “Killer” Browser Just Yet (8)
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Over on OStatic, Sam Dean has put Google’s open-source Chrome browser (available for Windows users), through the paces. Deeming it “clean and complete for a beta version,” Dean dishes up an in-depth review: As promised, Chrome is focused on web applications and is tricked out to handle them nicely. While it may not be ready to act as a complete OS just yet, it lets you create shortcuts for your favorite web apps and run ...
Who Cares About Google Chrome? A Quarter Of The Market Still Uses Internet Explorer 6 (4)
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At my company, Kloudshare, a big part of what we are developing involves pushing boundaries of what browsers are expected to do. Generally speaking, this is the case industry wide, as the Web browser is becoming more and more a real application delivery system. Google (GOOG) understands this issue and has apparently been focused on some of the more glaring weaknesses of the current crop of browsers. As such, they have decided to launch a ...
Today in Mountain View: The Google Chrome Browser Is Released Into the Wild (and to the Wilding Media) (1)
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This morning, the media circus has been summoned to the Googleplex in Mountain View for a look-see at its new Internet browser and a chit-chat with Google execs about the meaning of it all. (Also, 100 percent chance of both free comic books and tasty organic snacks too!) And Chrome, which is the shiny code name of the project that stuck as the brand name, will also be going out to the world at large–100 ...
Splotche shared as favorite The Entire Google Chrome Browser Blog Announcement | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (2)
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As was reported earlier this morning by BoomTown, Google has confirmed on its blog that it will launch its new Chrome browser tomorrow. Google (GOOG) said it would be launching Chrome in 100 countries, but it will only be in beta in Windows (Google said Mac and Linux versions were coming soon). The move by the search giant, although the blog does not say so, is clearly a direct shot over the bow of Microsoft ...
Is Google Replacing My OS Again?! (1)
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It seems like Google is making comic books these days. Its also announcing a new browser - Chrome - which we haven’t and know nothing about except the fact that it’s (obviously, an antitrust waiting to happend?) bundled with Google Gears. This of course, does not prevent Michael Arrington from TechCrunch of making outrageous claims calling it a “Windows Killer”: When combined with Gears, which allows for offline access, Chrome is nothing less than a ...
Google Browser Is Real. Another Win For Webkit (41)
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Updated Analysis: Google in a blog post on their website has acknowledged the existence of Google Chrome, a browser that the company will be releasing tomorrow. Kara Swisher has confirmed the existence of Google Chrome, a browser developed by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company. The rumors of the browser were reported earlier on Google Blogoscoped, which received a comic book that outlined the key features of the browser. * It is based on Webkit ...
Here’s the Google Chrome Browser Comic Book: Hey Microsoft, Kaa-POW!!! (10)
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Here is Google’s entire comic book–BoomTown’s not going to say the search giant is juvenile, but a comic book?–that it is using to explain the technical details of its new browser called Chrome. Sources told me definitively that Google (GOOG) will launch the browser–which is its most blatant attack on Microsoft (MSFT) yet–as early as tomorrow for download by consumers. Until then, I got a copy of it and here is the entire comic book ...
Google Ignites a New Browser War With Microsoft By Unveiling One of its Own | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (13)
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In its most frontal and aggressive attack on Microsoft yet, sources with knowledge of the project said Google is preparing to unveil a new browser--ready for download to users as early as tomorrow--to try to loosen Microsoft's iron grip on the most important piece of software to navigate the Internet. In addition, Google Blogoscoped has published a comic book that Google is apparently using to explain the technical aspects of its open-source browser, which is ...
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toddkitta said:
Huh? Why is it an attack on MS and not Firefox?
Are Google, Yahoo Going Forward With Ad Deal Without Approval From Feds? (GOOG, YHOO) (1)
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When Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO) signed their ad deal in June, which allows Yahoo to run Google ads on its U.S. and Canadian search results, the companies said they would wait three-and-a-half months, so that the Feds could give them antitrust clearance. That deadline is now about a month away and yesterday on Bloomberg (launches the video player), Google CEO Eric Schmidt seemed to suggest that the deal would go forward even if the ...
Microsoft Sets Sights on Europe With Shopping Site Buy (2)
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Greenfield Online, the parent company of Munich-based comparison shopping site Ciao, said this morning that Microsoft would spend $486 million to acquire it, derailing an earlier offer from a private equity firm to buy the company. The Ciao sites operate in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK. For Microsoft, the hope is that the deal will help boost its search business overseas. After the failed bid for Yahoo, Microsoft has been ...
YouTube: Muahaha–My Master Plan Is Coming to Fruition! [Digital Daily] (1)
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Given the option to pull copyrighted material posted to YouTube without their permission or to monetize it with YouTube’s new Content ID system, some 90 percent of copyright owners are choosing the latter. Since it was first announced, Content ID–which allows rights owners to block an infringing clip, leave it be or grant YouTube permission to sell ads against it–has won some impressive partners, including such media companies as CBS, Universal Music and Electronic Arts. ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) has not been able to home grow its own online business so it has decided to buy the solution a piece at a time. Yahoo! (YHOO) was supposed to be the largest contributor to Microsoft.com. That did not work out. So far, the largest and most sensible M&A transaction from Redmond was its buy-out of Aquantive, a large display advertising operation. Not much has happened since that transaction closed.Now Microsoft has spend over ...Shared by Shannon Prickett (34)Contribute comment
