Internap Completes VitalStream Deal
Internap Network Services (INAP) said today that its acquisition of VitalStream has been completed, with shareholders from both companies approving the $217 million deal. The acquisition boosts Internap's position in the fast-growing world of Internet video and streaming media.
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Real Estate Expert Joins Equinix Board
Many corporate board appointments aren't particularly newsworthy. But Equinix made an interesting appointment today, announcing that veteran real estate investment specialist Irving F. Lyons, III has joined its board of directors, which now has six members. Lyons is the Principal at Lyons Asset...
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NPR Features One Wilshire Carrier Hotel
National Public Radio technology correspondent Xeni Jardin featured Internet carrier hotels in a segment that aired yesterday. The piece spotlighted One Wilshire, the huge Los Angeles Internet hub owned and operated by CRG West, the technology real estate arm of the Carlyle Group. The report...
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Security at Google
To prove to the potential customers of Google Apps' business edition that Google cares about security, they released a white paper titled "Comprehensive review of security and vulnerability protections for Google Apps" (available as PDF). Here are some interesting details:
Google operates one of the largest networks of distributed datacenters in the world, and goes to great lengths to protect the data and intellectual property in these centers. Google operates an undisclosed number of datacenters worldwide. Many primary Google datacenters are wholly owned and man
Google Apps Premier Edition
Google Apps Premier Edition is the promised offering for small businesses. It includes 10 gigabytes of mail storage, 99.9% uptime guarantee for email, APIs to integrate with the existing infrastructure of a business (single sign-on, user management, email gateway), 24/7 phone support. Everything for $50 a year per user (there's a free trial until April 30th).
Google continues to offer two free editions of Google Apps:
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How to Remove YouTube Videos from a Google Video Search
Google announced last month that Google Video will become a search engine that will include videos from different video sites. For the moment, Google Video includes YouTube videos in the search results.
Because YouTube is much more popular than Google Video, much more videos are uploaded to YouTube (Google Video has 3 million videos, while YouTube has 18 million videos), so most search results will contain a lot of YouTube videos. If you want to search only YouTube videos, you can do that at youtube.com, but how to restrict your search only to Google videos?
Use the site: operator, that should be familiar
Because YouTube is much more popular than Google Video, much more videos are uploaded to YouTube (Google Video has 3 million videos, while YouTube has 18 million videos), so most search results will contain a lot of YouTube videos. If you want to search only YouTube videos, you can do that at youtube.com, but how to restrict your search only to Google videos?
Use the site: operator, that should be familiar
No Competition for Google Docs & Spreadsheets
According to Nielsen/NetRatings (PDF), Google Docs & Spreadsheets had:
People spent an average of 10 minutes in October, and 14 minutes in December. "Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets skew toward higher incomes, with 28 percent of users earning upwards of $100,000 annually. A large majority of users, 76 percent, have an income greater than $50,000 annually. Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets are typical of technology early adopters. The
| Unique visitors | Month |
| 445,762 | October 2006 |
| 424,785 | November 2006 |
| 432,156 | December 2006 |
People spent an average of 10 minutes in October, and 14 minutes in December. "Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets skew toward higher incomes, with 28 percent of users earning upwards of $100,000 annually. A large majority of users, 76 percent, have an income greater than $50,000 annually. Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets are typical of technology early adopters. The
Plus Boxes - a New Way to Look at Search Results
The snippet displayed in the search results pages is important because it shows some excerpts from the web page that have your search terms and helps you decide if the result is OK for you. But Google could show you much more about a site.
Google added some time ago an expandable box (called Plus Box or ManyBox) next to search results connected to local businesses. Now they're experimenting with a Finance Plus Box, that shows financial information next to the homepage of a business listed on a stock exchange.
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Google added some time ago an expandable box (called Plus Box or ManyBox) next to search results connected to local businesses. Now they're experimenting with a Finance Plus Box, that shows financial information next to the homepage of a business listed on a stock exchange.
The New Blogger and the Way Feeds Are Sorted
The new Blogger has updated the feed format from Atom 0.3 to Atom 1.0. One of the most important change is that Blogger sorts the feed item by updated date, so if you edit a post written last year, that post will go to the top of the feed.
Not all feed readers care about the element, but most of the time you'll see the updated post appearing as new. The situation is even stranger in Firefox: if you subscribe to a Blogger feed using Firefox Live Bookmarks, you'll see all the updated items, as if they were new.
I know what you'll say: "This a very good idea. If you update a post, then we should find out. Maybe it's important." That's true, but many people th
Not all feed readers care about the
I know what you'll say: "This a very good idea. If you update a post, then we should find out. Maybe it's important." That's true, but many people th
The Old Google Image Search Is Back
By popular demand, the old interface of Google Image Search is back. People didn't like the cleaner design introduced one month ago that removed precious information like image dimension and the domain.
Here are some comments from Google Operating System visitors. I'm sure Google received much more similar comments and decided to put back the more traditional design:
"Google image search is a work tool, and reducing the amount of useful info you get at a glance makes it considerably less useful and
Here are some comments from Google Operating System visitors. I'm sure Google received much more similar comments and decided to put back the more traditional design:
"Google image search is a work tool, and reducing the amount of useful info you get at a glance makes it considerably less useful and
Malware Warnings in Image Search
Google started to show warnings for search results that install malicious software. The same warnings can be seen in image search (one example is an "innocent" query like site:crackserver.com, that shows all the images indexed from crackserver.com). If you click on a thumbnail from the search results, you'll be sent to an interstitial that recommends to try another search result.
In the new interface of image search, the domain name is less visible, as you have to hover over the thumbnail to
In the new interface of image search, the domain name is less visible, as you have to hover over the thumbnail to
Google Apps for Your Domain, Ready for Upgrade
Google Apps for Your Domain (you must love the URL: google.com/a), Google's package of hosted services for organizations and small businesses, could soon add new features and options.
InfoWorld reports the obvious: Google will add Docs & Spreadsheets to the offering. "It has been widely assumed that at some point Google would add Docs & Spreadsheets, a word processing and a spreadsheet program, to Google Apps, a suite of communication s
Google New York
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"Step out of New York's 14th Street subway stop, turn up Eighth Avenue, and there, in the heart of Chelsea - amid the traffic, delis, pizzerias, and restaurants - is Google's largest software engineering center outside of Mountain View," reports Information Week<
Larry Page Speaks About Marketing Great Ideas
Last week, Larry Page spoke at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. He explained there are "some people at Google [who] are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale. It's not as far off as people think." CNet resumes his conclusions: "His guess, he said, was that the brain's algorithms weren't all that complicated and could be approximated, eventually, with a lot of computational power."
Larry Page talked about his Tesla complex. "As a boy, Larry Page was fascinated with inventors and their creations. But he was troubled by stories of those
Larry Page talked about his Tesla complex. "As a boy, Larry Page was fascinated with inventors and their creations. But he was troubled by stories of those
Destroying Your Blog's Raison d'Etre
You don't read often a blog post that destroys every reason for which the blog exists. Gadget lovers, those who buy the latest shiny MP3 players, phones, laptops and digital cameras had to read this piece of text last week in Gizmodo:
I gave up two years of my life writing about gadgets for this site. Waking up every morning at 5 AM, chewing up press releases to find the rare morsel of legitimate information, chasing down "hot tips" that ended up being photochops of iPods with reflections of genitals in the touchscreens. Oh, and the worst: fielding emails from PR parasites eager to suck away preciou
Google Earth, Presented by a Google Employee
Jessica Pfund, a Google employee, talks about a program you may have heard about: Google Earth. The one-hour video takes you "through some of the most powerful, yet overlooked, features of this program and how people are using it".
Some notes:
* Google Maps is a 2D view of the world, while Google Earth is a 3D view of the world.
* Google Earth shortcuts: double click to zoom in, double right-click to zoom out. Double click on the zoom in button to zoom in to the
Some notes:
* Google Maps is a 2D view of the world, while Google Earth is a 3D view of the world.
* Google Earth shortcuts: double click to zoom in, double right-click to zoom out. Double click on the zoom in button to zoom in to the
Open Solutions Alliance
One of the announcements to come out of last weeks Open Solutions Summit in New York was the formation of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). They say:
'we are a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving adoption of
comprehensive open source business solutions'. Wow it sounds great, but where is the business model here?
California Insider Going Way Inside
I read a lot of political and current event blogs, and for California stuff one of my favorites has always been the Sacramento Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub, who authors the excellent blog California Insider. I was disheartened to read today that he is moving his blog over to Capitol Alert, which is a $500 a [...]
What is Protein Folding and How You Can Help
Stanfords chemistry department has a really interesting project that follows the pioneering seti@home initiative. You download a client app to become part of a massive distributed computer that analyzes how proteins fold with the goal of understanding complex diseases like Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and cancer.
Folding@Home Distributed Computing:
What is protein folding and how is folding linked [...]
FOWA Notes: The Magic Formula - Mike Arrington
FOWA Notes: The Magic formula - Mike Arrington | Muffin Research Labs by Stuart Colville:
3. Data and service protability (teqlo, ning and pipes)
Frees user data, no-ones figured a way to make money out of this yet. But they willObviously we agree that this is a great opportunity for 2007. Mike was right to point out [...]
