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Marketing YouTube

Google Markets Nexus One From YouTube Home Page

Google has taken full advantage of their web properties when it comes to marketing the Nexus One Google phone.  When the phone first released a couple of weeks ago, Google immediately put a text link ad on their homepage (Google.com) to promote the Nexus One website.  Google has since taken down that link and replaced […]

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Android News Technology

“Froyo” – The Next Version of Android OS

According to a senior Google engineer on the Android OS team, the next iteration of the Android mobile operating system will be coming soon and it will be called Froyo – named after frozen yogurt!  The Google engineer team has been naming big releases after desserts in alphabetical order, after Donut, Cupcake and Eclair.

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News YouTube

Is YouTube Considering Open Formats With HTML5?

There are some indications that Google is considering making YouTube – their popular video sharing platform – a more “free and open format” through the use of HTML5, the next generation of markup language for the web that is especially friendly for mobile application development. Here’s is more from Slashdot.com:

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Facebook Technology

How To Find & Subscribe To Facebook Fan Page RSS Feeds

Did you know that every Facebook Fan Page wall has an RSS feed that can be subscribed to, grabbed, embedded, and everything else you can do with RSS? The cool thing about a Facebook Fan Page RSS feed is that you only get that Fan Page’s updates in the feed – you don’t get all […]

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Technology

4 Keys To An Effective Blog

I think I heard Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, say recently that 2000 new blogs are created every day – day after day after day!  That’s a lot of blogs hitting the web.  However, as you and I know, Google’s algorithm is designed specifically to keep the less established content (or blogs) away from the top […]

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Mobile Technology Twitter

Could Twitter Be The Answer To Nexus One’s Custom Support Nightmare?

Google has been getting hammered the last couple of days over their customer support for the new Nexus One phone.  Complaints are piling up in forums on the web, and callers to HTC and T-Mobile are getting the run around… none of this is good for Google!

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Technology Twitter

#GoogleCN Twitter Trend Shows Strong Chinese Language Tweets

Apparently those who speak Chinese are well represented on Twitter! A currently trending topic on Twitter is #GoogleCN.  This represents Google China, the search engine’s translation for Chinese speaking users.