Earlier this month on the Official Google Blog, we announced how stars make search more personal by allowing you to mark and rediscover your favorite content. Today, we are extending this feature so that you can get to your favorite content on your ph…
Archive for March, 2010
Stars in mobile search
Posted by Lawrence Chang on March 31st, 2010
Posted in Google, Mobile Networks 
Tags: android, Browser, Car Reviews, Cars, Engineering Team, Google, Google Search, iphone, Ipods, Marker, Mobile Engineering, Mobile Search, Palm Devices, palm webos, Personal, Search Functionality, Search Star, starring, Stars 
Comments OffChirp! Chirp! Chirp!
Posted by Biz on March 31st, 2010
Spring has sprung and we’ve freed up a bunch of tickets for our first ever official Twitter conference, Chirp. The event will take place on April 14th and 15th in San Francisco. On the first day, we’ll gather at The Palace of Fine Arts—an historic bu…
Posted in Social Networks Tags: Army Post, developers, Enthusiasts, Investors, Mason, Palace Of Fine Arts, Panama Pacific Exposition, San Francisco Bay, Us Army Comments OffDNS Verification FTW
Posted by Sean Harding on March 31st, 2010
Webmaster Level: AdvancedA few weeks ago, we introduced a new way of verifying site ownership, making it easy to share verified ownership of a site with another person. This week, we bring you another new way to verify. Verification by DNS record allow…
Posted in Google, Search News Tags: Despair, Dns Configuration, Dns Records, Domain Example, Google, Meta Tag, Record Verification, Sake, Three Times, Txt Record, Verification Method, Webmaster Tools Comments OffIntroducing the Mozilla State of the Internet Report
Posted by Erica Jostedt on March 31st, 2010
Today, the Mozilla metrics team released the first ever State of the Internet report. With more than 350 million people around the world using the Firefox Web browser, we are careful to ensure the data we collect is fairly limited and feel compelled to share what we’re able to extract from that data.
Some interesting findings from [...]
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Posted in Browsers Tags: About Mozilla, Adoption, Antarctica, Around the Web, Blog, Experiments, Firefox, Hawaii, Insight, International, Internet Report, Maine, Market Share Data, Metrics, Mozilla, Mozilla Community, Mozilla News, Participation, People Around The World, Russia, South America, Tabs, Test Pilot, Web Browser, Worldwide Share, Wyoming Comments OffWindows Azure Helps Startup sharpcloud Expand its Business
Posted by Microsoft Blog Admin on March 31st, 2010
Most businesses today use static spreadsheets and presentations that don’t allow for effective collaboration during planning processes. Yet in their personal lives people communicate and collaborate constantly, using dynamic social-networking tools s…
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Posted in Tech Companies Tags: Business Intelligence, Business Success, Business Today, Dynamic Environment, Effective Collaboration, England, Guildford, Networking Tools, Partnership, Personal Lives, Real Time, Social Media, Social Networking, Spreadsheets, Startup Business, Time Communication, Windows Startup Comments OffInjured Aid Worker Finds ‘A Revolution in Human Kindness’
Posted by Ada Luz Restrepo Caicedo on March 31st, 2010
The following is part of our “Your Stories” series on different ways Facebook is used across the world. If you have a story you’d like to share with us, please submit it here.
A few years ago, Daniel Eley was backpacking in Latin America. Now, he is paralyzed from the shoulders down…
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Posted in Social Networks Tags: Aid Worker, Air Ambulance, Andes Mountains, Buckinghamshire England, Clift, Colombian Border, Eley, Facebook, Friend Of The Family, Guatemala City, Human Kindness, Intensive Rehabilitation, Latin America, Lifesaver, Mother Carolyn, Positive Messages, Rehabilitation Center, Salvador Brazil, Sister Bridget, Vertebrae Comments OffSprint Earns Another Top Honor for Service to Business Customers; Frost & Sullivan Ranks Sprint Best for Service Level Agreements
Posted by Sprint Nextel Corporation News Release on March 31st, 2010
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Mar 31, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced that it has received the Frost &
Sullivan 2010 North American Product Leadership Award in Multi-Protocol
Label Switching (MPLS) Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Business
Customers, outperforming rivals AT&T and Verizon.
According to Frost & Sullivan, “To enterprises, SLAs represent a reason
to believe that the communications services provider stands behind its
network performance claims. They represent a level of trust that is
fueled by transparency into network performance; Sprint’s innovative
approach to SLAs gives it an edge.”
The…
Posted in Mobile Networks Tags: Amp, Business Customers, Business Wire, Communications Services, Frost Sullivan, Leadership Award, Mpls, Network Performance, Nyse, Overland Park, Performance Claims, Product Leadership, Protocol Label, Rivals, Service Level Agreements, Services Provider, Sprint, Today Announced That, Transparency, Uncategorized, Verizon Comments OffIntroducing Google Ad Innovations
Posted by A Googler on March 31st, 2010
The principle behind the advertising products we build at Google is simple: ads are information. But the type of information that ads provide is getting more varied and inventive all the time, and as a result ads are getting more interesting, social an…
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Posted in Google, Tech Companies Tags: Ads, Advertiser, Advertisers, Advertising Products, Advertising Technologies, Funnels, Google, Innovation, Innovations, Marketers, New Features, Principle, Product Management, Susan Wojcicki, Vice President Comments OffBing Maps at Where 2.0 2010
Posted by Bing on March 31st, 2010
This week Bing Maps and Microsoft Research will be heading to San Jose to attend O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect of Bing Maps will kick off the event keynote at 9am and will also take part in “The Big Picture, from the Big Players” panel at 2pm alongside Danny Sullivan and folks from Yahoo!, Google and Yelp. If you can’t make it to the keynote, the speech will be live streamed and all content will be available on YouTube following the event.
In the meantime, here are a few highlights of what’s new and coming from Bing Maps:
New apps: Just about every month, Bing Maps gets a makeover in the form of new map imagery for locations worldwide. The Bing Maps World Tour, available in the Bing Maps app gallery today, brings these updates to life using the Bing Map Apps framework, Silverlight and Azure. Read more from our Bing Maps evangelist here.
New apps coming soon: Oodle.com, one of the fastest growing classifieds services is creating an app that will map rental housing on Bing Maps. The Oodle Rentals app will pull-in Oodle data, allowing users to look at various rental housing available from Oodle.com. The app will begin rolling out later today. Read more from our Bing Maps evangelist here.
App update: Last week at SES New York, we announced our partnership with foursquare and plans to roll out the foursquare Everywhere app on Bing Maps. Today, we’re excited to say that the updated app is rolling out broadly and will also be ready for use later today. Read more from our Bing Maps evangelist here.
Bing Maps Event Presence:
The Maps as an Information Ecology
Date: Wednesday, March 31 @ 9am PT
Presenter: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Summary: When mapping first arrived on the web, it was all about driving directions. In the era of the mashup, we saw map tiles being used as canvas for a variety of websites devoted to data visualization and interaction. Around the same time, maps arrived in force on mobile devices, they began to include visualization at human scale, and we began to see an increase in user-generated and crowd sourced maps. At Bing, we’ve been evolving to meet and accelerate the trajectory of these shifts, in the process enabling a broad sweep of new applications written by anyone, using data from anywhere. The Magical Realist writer Jorge Luis Borges imagined a map that grew as large as life; in a very real sense, this is what is happening today.
The Big Picture, from the Big Players
Date: Wednesday, March 31 @ 2pm PT
Presenters:
· Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land
· Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Bing Maps
· Tom Wailes, Y!
· John Hanke, Google
· Dylan Swift, Yelp
Summary: Where’s local search heading? In this session, representatives from the major search engines discuss the state of where we are and where things are going in the future.
You can check out the full conference schedule here
For more from the Bing maps team make sure to follow them on twitter @bingmaps or check out all the latest on the Bing Maps blog.
Thanks,
Kristin Meldahl
Posted in Microsoft, Search News Tags: 2pm, Arcas, Big Picture, bing maps, Blaise Aguera y Acas, Classifieds Services, Danny Sullivan, Data Visualization, Driving Directions, Evangelist, Foursquare, Google, Information Ecology, Keynote, Makeover, Maps World, Mashup, Microsoft Research, Oodle, Rsquo, Silverlight, World Tour, Yelp, Youtube Comments OffSmall Biz Nation: Helping small businesses help each other
Posted by Guest Author on March 31st, 2010
Ed. note: Rieva Lesonsky has been covering the world of entrepreneurs since 1978, before essentially anyone really knew what the word “entrepreneur” actually meant. Two years ago, she left Entrepreneur magazine (where she was editorial director for many, many years) and became a business owner. She’s also moderator of Small Biz Nation – a newly [...]
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