Posts Tagged Google
Google Launches Lively to Create a Virtual World Across Social Networks
Google has just launched Lively, a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web. In essence, Google is looking to create a massive distributed virtual world, where every Google account can have its own avatar that can be used wherever a Lively virtual room is present – for example, on a blog, a social networking profile, or a Web page.
Add comment July 9, 2008
Web 3.0 – Could it unseat Internet giants like Google?
Microsoft’s acquisition of Powerset signals the building of a future when the world could have access to virtual “software agents” who “roam” across the Web, taking care of the day-to-day hassles of humankind. It’s called a “Semantic Web” and it really could change the Internet at a fundamental level.
Add comment July 8, 2008
Google Tries Tighter Aim for Web Ads
Google, with its deep reservoir of data about online behavior gathered by tracking hundreds of millions of computers, is for the first time testing ways to use some of that data to aim ads at Web users.
Add comment June 27, 2008
15 People Who Changed the Internet
A list of 15 people who have made the internet what it is today. This list includes the starters of Digg, Google, Ebay, Craiglist, Facebook, Napster, WordPress, BitTorrent, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Youtube, and more…
Add comment June 27, 2008
Is Ballmer The Right Man For Microsoft – For Another 10 Years
George Colony, CEO of Forrester Research Inc., sees a subtle slippage in Microsoft’s standing vs. rivals such as Google Inc. and Apple Inc. as Gates has disengaged himself from the company — and implies that the slippage could accelerate once Gates is even more out of the picture.
Add comment June 26, 2008
