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Google AppEngine Preview Launched

dan.lin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:27:12 +0000

Yesterday Google launched a limited-release preview of their Web Services stack call Google AppEngine. Below are videos from their first ‘Campfire’ demostration of the product. Sounded like it was a cold night in Mountain View…

Brokeback Jaiku

dan.lin — Mon, 21 May 2007 23:20:45 +0000

Apparent Google Adsense thinks my Jaiku page is pretty gay. And by gay I mean blogging about horse breeding.

Digg.com no longer serving ads from Federated Media?

dan.lin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:36:32 +0000

Digg.com has been using John Battelle’s Federated Media for their ad serving ever since the initial investment by Omidyar Network. Being funded by the same guy and all. But recently it looks like Digg has ditched FM in favor of their ex-ad server Google Adsense. Is it just me or has anyone else noticed this? Is there any story behind the switch? It seems that Federated Media would be able to fetch a higher CPM rate by selling ads using their sales people than the ‘we’ll make it up in volume’, notoriously under paid system Google offers. I suspect that Digg might be in talks with Google about an acquisition deal. That would explain why Digg is favoring adsense exclusively to show Google why they are worth the $150M price tag they are asking. It’s just my speculation and contribution to the Google rumor mill. Thank you very much.

Google TV – Secret Beta or Hoax?

dan.lin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:24:38 +0000

Mark Erickson is a video blogger on Youtube who hosts his own technology show called Infinite Solutions. The vlog purports that it has found its way into a super secret Google TV beta program by way or an obscure easter egg technique. Many around the Web are refusing to believe the validity of his findings and have deemed this a well produced hoax. Maybe they are just overly cautious because it looks to me like it might just be the real deal. Just watch the mullet Mark sports in the clip as well as the 1980ish production style makes it hard to believe that he has the ability to pull off something as elaborate as some have claimed.

It is not unfathomable that Google with its acquisition of Youtube and its recent video search updates that it would solidify its position in online video by launching a Joost competitor into the marketplace. With its media partnerships in Youtube and its seemingly endless supply of cash, it is certainly able to pull this off. On the other hand, Google is certainly not immune to failure in the online video market when it comes launching its own services.

Google quitely removes ‘Tips’ from search results

dan.lin — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:37:22 +0000

Looks like the pressure from the Firefox wiz kid was too much for Google to handle as they quietly remove the ‘tips’ section from their search results.

Ever since the Blake Ross blog post criticized the search engine for favoring its own products, Goooooogle have been getting it from everyone. Good to see that even the biggest of giants can at least be temporarily shaken up by just one blog entry from the right person.

Web browser wonder boy loses trust in Google

dan.lin — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:49:58 +0000

Update: Tips have been temporarily removed

Blake Ross of Firefox has lost trust in the ‘don’t be evil’ search and advertising giant Google. In a recent blog post on blakeross.com, he describes how Google is foregoing is prior position of allowing the cream to surface to the top in lieu of promoting its own tools. The example he uses is searching for the phrase ‘photo sharing’ in Google returns a tip on the top of the page promoting their photo sharing tool Picasa.

Although Picasa is a fine tool for sharing photos but it is certainly not the best of breed. This probably has some to do with Blake’s new company Parakey whose goal is to make media sharing and various common Web tasks seamless to the normal Web user.

Stop the Google kick backs for Mozilla Corporation in Firefox

dan.lin — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:11:11 +0000

For those of you who have been reading up about the ‘Open Source’ browser Firefox, They have recently formed a for-profit company called Mozilla Corporation at mozilla.com for the sole purpose of distributing the firefox browser. Every time someone uses the Google search box from within the browser, Mozilla Corp gets a kick back from Google. Just in last year alone, they got 72 million dollars worth of kick backs.

If you don’t feel like supporting this google/mozilla kickback system anymore like myself, add this alternative search box to your firefox embeded search engines…

Click to Install the No $$ for Firefox Google Search Box