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- Google Base API launched
- Google's just announced a potentially significant update to its Google Base product, by releasing a data API for it. This essentially means Google is opening up Google Base, which is basically Google's database of structured content and home for many different verticals currently (jobs, vehicles, classified). ...
- Tags: Google Base, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- Why Google is extending RSS
- Jeff Jarvis picked up on my post the other day about GData, Is GData knocking down Google's walled gardens, or enabling a new kind of portal? Google's new syndication protocol which is an extension of both RSS and Atom. Like most people, Jeff isn't sure what this means - and...
- Tags: Google Inc., GData
- Blog posts 2006-04-21
- Google Base begins to roll out the verticals
- A lot of people have been seeing new Google Base verticals popping up - and indeed the Google Base homepage has suddenly had a number of new categories added to it. The full list is now: ...
- Tags: Google Base, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- Will Google Base be the world's largest XML database?
- Michael Parekh wrote an interesting post outlining why he thinks Google Base is a milestone for the Internet. The gist of it is: "With Google Base, the company now POTENTIALLY has a human-powered directory of it's own, that can supplement results to it's core search engine. It's Yahoo!'s early approach...
- Tags: Google Base, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-11-16
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- More thoughts on Facebook's new platform
- Earlier this week I reported on Facebook's plans to further open up and to turn the social network into a platform. Third parties would be able to partner with Facebook, who in return would provide the necessary hooks for those companies to port their applications, and set-up-shop inside of the...
- Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Social Networks, Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- MIX076: The remix from day one
- In the aftermath of MIX07 day one, with the announcements around Silverlight (see yesterdays ZDNet coverage from Mary Jo Foley, Ryan Stewart and myself), the blogosphere is weighing in with more coverage and analysis. Steve Gillmor has emerged from his cave to comment on the calculus of Microsofts latest moves...
- Tags: General, Microsoft, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Google Apps Premier Edition - let the games begin!
- The white noise level surrounding Googles announcement last night about their new premium offering – Google Apps Premier Edition – is bound to reach epic levels and last quite a while as everyone wraps their head around what has always seemed to me to be an inevitability on a par...
- Tags: Mobility, Microsoft Office, Software, Web Apps, Mac, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- YouTube vs. MySpace, Facebook: Clip culture vs. friendship
- YouTube’s Chad Hurley is proud of the site’s “clip culture.” In “YouTube’s 100 million videos: quantity vs. quality” I cite YouTube’s “snack-sized” philosophy:We are not trying to stream full-length programming. We have developed a new clip culture. The site specializes in short—typically 2-minute—homemade, comic videos created by users. YouTube serves...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, YouTube&rsquo, s Chad Hurley
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- Why can't Google's second act be Rich Internet Applications?
- Richard MacManus and Steve Rubel pointed to an article about Google's controlled chaos in Fortune this month. It's essentially an expose on the company which takes a look at its recent deals, its history, and some of the people running the show. Because it's Fortune, it also wants to know...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-24
- Is the Web Office Microsoft's game to win or lose?
- In the wake of all the noise generated by the release of Google Calendar last week, I added a comment to a post by fellow ZDNet blogger Richard MacManus about Google Calendar suggesting that Google wasn't about to "kill" anything. Richard's reply got me thinking: who really has the best...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Web
- Blog posts 2006-04-17
- Blog swarm on Writely
- Google buys Writely and the blogosphere swarms. The aggregators/memetrackers, with some algorithmic help and hand kneading, provide ample evidence. It's a good example of how the blogosphere operates--thousands of bloggers converging on a hot topic and the aggregators/memetrackers sorting and filtering the output for human consumption. It's the hot conversation...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Writely
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- Yahoo's Go, your ID and the territorial imperative
- At CES this morning Yahoo announces its Go services, which brings Yahoo e-mail, instant messaging, photo and other services to mobile phones, PC-connected TVs and PCs without using a browser such via Yahoo Widgets for now. Future features will include programming a DVR over a mobile phone or offering music...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
- Open source is real Alchemy
- James Governor brings up the old Alchemy idea in a recent posting. You might recall that Alchemy, introduced by Adam Bosworth during his stint at BEA (he's now at Google), was going to provide a platform that allowed Web applications to function offline. James points to Tim Bray's announcement at...
- Tags: Alchemy, Derby
- Blog posts 2005-12-15
- Google Base and Fremont--signs of the Web 2.0 plateau
- The technology industry has been experiencing a round of inspired innovation. Venture capital money is pouring into startups, and the new as well as aging giants are burning the midnight oil Innovation will slow as the big companies become slower. to take advantage of this second major wave of...
- Tags: Google Inc., classifieds
- Blog posts 2005-11-30
- Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: Mars and Venus?
- Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: Mars and Venus?3rd PlanetGood post, and thanks for the ref. Your "Web as Platform"/"Web of Meaning" is probably as good a summary as there is. But note that it's meaning in the machine-readable sense, so an alternative might be "Web of Data", in contrast to...
- Tags: XML, Channel management, Firefox/Mozilla, vision, RDF, Semantic Web, Web, Semantic Web Technologies, Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2005-09-19
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