Developer Impressions Of Google Wave: “Real-Time Email On Crack”

Jul 23, 2009 at 3:14pm ET by Greg Sterling

What is it? Google's answer to Twitter? Email and IM replacement? Personal communications and collaboration platform? These were questions and characterizations that emerged as Google announced Wave at the company's May developer event in San Francisco. (Here's a bit more context from my related post at the press conference.) It's a shapeshifter, a new species and something of a rorschach test for people because it crosses boundaries and isn't easily defined. Google Wave's API has recently become available to developers. And now some first "hands on" impressions are out. Ben Rometsch wr [...]

Filed in: Google: Apps For Your Domain, Google: Chrome, Google: Labs, Google: User Interface

Google Takes On Tourism With City Tours Experiment

Jun 25, 2009 at 2:39am ET by Matt McGee

City Tours is a new addition to Google Labs that puts Google squarely in the tourism business: Give it a city name, and Google not only suggests sites to see, but it also maps out a multi-day itinerary and proposes a minute-by-minute travel schedule for you to follow. And what's really impressive is that City Tours doesn't only cover the standard travel hot spots like New York, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. You've probably never heard of Kennewick, Washington, but Google has a three-day tour in mind if you ever want to visit my neck of the woods. Whoa. That noise you hear is the soun [...]

Filed in: Google: Labs, Google: Maps & Local, Top News

Google’s New Wave Of Ambition

May 28, 2009 at 3:34pm ET by Greg Sterling

I'm in the Google Wave press conference, following a dizzying keynote -- dizzying, at least, after a night of little sleep. As he did yesterday Google co-founder Sergey Brin joined the discussion and similarly apologized for arriving late. Danny live blogged the keynote earlier this morning. He jokingly compared Wave to Lotus Notes. In some respects that's not an entirely inappropriate comparison, given the scope of the product and the emphasis on collaboration -- though the Google folks would probably disagree. Wave seems to be conceived as a total communication and collaboration to [...]

Filed in: Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: Labs, Google: Mobile, Google: Orkut, Google: Outside US

Google Brings ‘My Location’ To The Desktop

Apr 24, 2009 at 1:38pm ET by Matt McGee

Knowing where a searcher is when s/he conducts a search is one of the big promises and opportunities in mobile search. Advertisers want the precise targeting, and it's also a convenience for the user who doesn't need to indicate a location when looking for products and services. There are already several tools and services that include location as part of the mobile search experience, but Google has added location-based web searching on the desktop via a new, beta version of the Google Toolbar. The new toolbar includes Google's "My Location" technology, which was introduced in 2007 for mobi [...]

Filed in: Google: Labs, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Mobile, Google: Toolbar, Top News

Showing Off “The Innovation Machine” At Google

Apr 20, 2009 at 8:00pm ET by Greg Sterling

Google is almost uniquely situated among tech companies in that it can reveal very little about an event or announcement and be all but guaranteed that most of the journalists and bloggers on the tech beat in Northern California will show up to cover it. That's what happened today. Google brought bloggers and journalists into its San Francisco offices, on a beautiful 80+ degree day, to hear about ongoing innovation at Google Labs, together with a couple of related announcements. The two announcements were covered earlier by Chris Sherman and Matt McGee: Google Adds Search By Similarity To [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Labs

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