Hulu's move to start a pay service for $9.99 a month isn't new in the world of television. It actually follows one of the now-oldest alternative platforms of TV, which really got going in the late '70s: pay cable TV networks.
And while some may complain about Hulu's move, here is the good news for media executives: the pay TV platform is ( Read more... )

Google's new social networking site Buzz launched last night and bills itself as the best way to "share interesting stuff". On Google's official blog they claim that Buzz will be a way of "organizing the social information on the web" and "finding relevance in the noise".

So is this a generous contribution to information flow and "sharing" or is ( Read more... )

How did Jim Hanson and the creators of "Sesame Street" know about Google? A video created in 1982 shows the Cookie Monster using the word "google" in a song (rhyming it with bugle) 16 years before the company even existed. Celebrating "Sesame Street's" 40th anniversary, Marissa Mayer shares this video.

During the next several days, the Google ( Read more... )

Google has changed its logo into a barcode to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the invention of the barcode.

The little icon, which appears on all sorts of food, fashion and magazine packaging was created by Norman Woodland, Bernard Silver and Jordin Johanson after a supermarket executive asked the dean of the Drexel Institute of Technology if it ( Read more... )

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For far too long Google has dominated the world of search engines, and without even a mezzuzah in sight! OK, you can get images if you search for them, but where are all the kosher eatery guides and religiously approved lingerie stores? Koogle could change all that, as it's a semi-rabbinically approved search engine that lets you trawl through ( Read more... )

Google has become something of a de facto public record for people looking for other people. However, frustratingly, we have no control over what pops up when people search for us. Now, Google aims to change all that, with a new product released yesterday called Google Me. As Read Write Web's Marshall Kirkpatrick notes, Google Me comes with a price ( Read more... )

Open or perish. It’s a meme that’s been embraced as fact ever since Eric Raymond published his seminal essay, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar.” If you are not “open,” (i.e., open source or open APIs), you don’t get it, and you’re destined for obsolescence. But while there is an appealing logic to this premise, the reality just isn’t that black and ( Read more... )

I have to admit I’m a bit of a Google fanjirl (in addition to being an Apple fanjirl). I know that’s not healthy, being such a big fan of a company’s products, but I just love their software for its simplicity and ease of use.

Gmail has evolved with such smart little improvements to email that no other email software is even close, in my opinion. ( Read more... )

I think this article gives some insights as to why Chrome isn't just a mashup of Firefox and Opera.
Since a browser is the linchpin of Web activity - the framework for our searching, reading, buying, banking and porn consumption - this is huge step that needed to wait until Google had come of age. Chrome is an explicit attempt to accelerate the ( Read more... )