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Android

12 November 2007 / Comments

Android is the name of the open mobile OS announced by Google last week.

As expected, Android code and SDK has been released today. Lots of people have been talking about it lately and I’ve to admit, from the various screenshots I’ve seen so far, that the UI does not seem that bad for a first [...]

Google & YouTube for $1.65 billion!

10 October 2006 / Comments

Nobody could have missed the news. Google has just acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion.

I read that Yahoo! was still negociating until the end.

Congratulations you guys! That’s an impressive achivement for a company launched only one year ago!

Just for information, the current traffic stats of YouTube: 100 million videos watched per days and 65000 videos [...]

Why I Don’t Like Feed Readers

2 October 2006 / Comments

A couple of days ago, Google released a revamped version of its Google Reader service. This version is a huge improvement compared to the previous one and start felling like a desktop application. But actually, I don’t think RSS feed readers — online or desktop — are a good way to read online material.

The problem [...]

Stay In Sync With Google Browser Sync

10 June 2006 / Comments

Google just released the Google Browser Sync. A Firefox extension to synchronize your browser settings and bookmarks across computers. A very useful piece of software.

Like most people I frequently use multiple computers and being able to access and share your data is crucial for productivity. I use more and more online services to do it [...]

Is Google Office Showing Up?

14 March 2006 / Comments

There was a lot of excitement around the recent acquisition of Writely by Google.

Writely is a web-based processing and document sharing software, a nice piece of work. Google has announced for a long time that they planned to release a web-based office suite and apparently they are building it piece by piece. They now [...]

Google integrates Chat within Gmail

9 February 2006 / Comments

If you looked at your Gmail account recently you’ll noticed some little changes in the sidebar — there is a “chat” entry. Any of your Google Talk conversation can be archived and searched like e-mails. But there is more, Google announced that they will provide a full integration of Instant Messaging within Gmail.

According to their [...]

Google On Demand Video Store

8 January 2006 / Comments

Google just announced that they’re close to launch an on-demand video service. People will be able to buy and rent videos right from the web. They will partner with CBS and the NBA to deliver recent content.

There are no much infos about the technical details. Apparently content will be encoded with Xvid and will use [...]

A Tour of Useful Online Services

6 December 2005 / Comments

I see myself using more and more online services. As the Internet is maturing, online services are changing into more simple and smart software. There is now a real advantage of using an online application versus a desktop one. The web announced years early is finally showing up. I’ve compiled a list of some [...]