Google Chrome Dev channel release was updated today. Extensions are finally available in Incognito. That's awesome, because, let's face it, Adblock is needed just as much (if not more) for Incognito sites.
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It almost doesn’t matter if Google’s Chrome browser and OS gain significant market share or not, as long as they push other browsers and operating systems to keep up in the speed race. Google’s need for speed boils down to one very simple thing: money. It realized long ago that every millisecond improvement in pageload times on its search engine resulted in more searches, and thus more search ads served and clicked on. The opposite is also true. Google once did a study showing that delays of 100 to 400 millisecond in showing search results translated into up to 0.6 percent searches. Multiply that across the billions of searches done on Google and it starts to add up to real money, perhaps tens of millions of dollars per quarter.
No wonder Google tries to do everything it can to make the Web faster. For instance, it is supporting emerging standards such as HTML5 and SPDY, and sharing its best practices and speed-monitoring tools with developers. It is also baking the PuSH protocol into Google Reader and other apps. In doing so, Google is helping to deliver news feeds faster (PuSH, aka Pubsubhubbub, was created by two Google engineers, of course, and released as an open-source project). The list goes on and on.
via TechCrunch
Interesting take on Google and their speed obsession. It really doesn't matter why Google wants to make things faster. It does serve Google in several ways.
- They keep their technical edge and force other companies to innovate (like Microsoft and h#mce_temp_url#).
- It's great PR.
- It helps them keep their market share by being so darn fast.
- Google loves their data. The more searches (and clickthrus), the more data. The more data, the better the search results and their algorithms.
Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange is a new server-side tool that migrates your company's email, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. With the tool, migrations are:• Easy: set it up in just 4 steps• Efficient: select the combination of mail, calendar and contact data that you want to move, with the option of doing so in phases• Fast: migrate hundreds of users at the same time• Painless: employees can continue to use Microsoft Exchange during the migration without interruption or any involvement on their part
For small or ginormous organizations on Exchange 2003, it's worth a look. If you're already on Exchange 2007 or 2010, I'd stick with them for the time being. Medium-sized organizations are the tricky ones.
Google's done an interesting thing with their storage pricing.
On Google's announcement of the ability to upload any file type to Google Docs, they say:
You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year.However, on the Google Storage purchase page, it's not the "pay only for what you use" model that's the crux of much of "the cloud." Your options are 20 GB, 80 GB, 200 GB. Nothing in between. What gives, Google? Will you let us by 31.4 GB rather than 80 GB? On the plus side, that $50 you paid last month for the 200 GB Picasa storage (with "free" Eye-Fi card) is now split between Gmail, Google Docs, and Picasa Web albums.
Now, if only we could link that with a Google Apps account...
UPDATE: Google Apps Premier customers will pay $3.50/GB/yr. That's a big difference from the consumer $0.25/GB/yr.
I'm a man of many browsers, but Firefox has my heart (or rather Firefox's extensions do). I want to put Google Chrome to a really fair test, however, and will use only Chrome for the next week.
(I know, it's not that exciting of an experiment...)
Give Back and Have Your Donation Matched by Google
The holidays are about giving and we hope that you can continue to spread holiday cheer by making a donation via Google Checkout to any of the participating non-profits listed below. At the end of the program, Google will match donations made via the WiFi network, up to a maximum of $250,000 across the three non-profits. Just look for the link to donate once you connect.
The airport that gets the highest dollar amount contributed per passenger (based on 2008 FAA data) by January 1, 2010 will also receive $15,000 to donate to the local charity of their choice. If you'd like to make a donation but aren't traveling this holiday season, we encourage you to make a direct contribution to these organizations by visiting the websites below.
This rocks. Google is sponsoring free WiFi at selected airports this holiday season. While the WiFi is free, they will accept donations. Google will match those donations, up to $250,000.
So, that $9.95 airport WiFi you were thinking about buying because your flight is now delayed 2 hours is free. Or, you could donate, say, $5.00 which would end up being $10.00 to charity.
How cool is that!
Bookmarklet Converts PDF Links to Be Viewed With Google Docs PDF Reader
Joen created a JavaScript bookmark snippet that turns any normal links to PDF files into links that will point to Google’s online PDF viewer. Adobe’s PDF viewer tends to freeze browsing, and Joen finds Google’s viewer “far outshines” it. (Would it make sense to turn this into a Greasemonkey script, too? This would help with the occasional surprise effect when you click on PDF links.)
via blogoscoped.com
What a fantastic thing for lightweight browsing.
Google tests a service called Cloudboard, an online clipboard that should make it easy to copy data between Gmail, Google Docs and other Google services. The service is not publicly available yet, but there are many references to it.
That would be awesome. I'd be far more likely to use Google Docs more if the clipboard was in sync with Gmail.
I love Google. They can almost do no wrong, or at least so I thought. They’ve released two big bombs recently, the Google Video store and Google Pack. Google Video has never been the most pleasant or helpful experience, and selling video content hasn’t helped it. Most videos are too expensive with too restrictive DRM.
Google Pack a one-stop-shop for downloading system utilities and Google software (surprise, surprise). It includes Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Google Toolbar for IE, Google Pack Screensaver, Firefox with Google Toolbar, AdAware SE, Norton AntiVirus 2005 SE, and Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. You can optionally installed Trillian, Google Talk, Real Player, and GalleryPlayer HD Images. It also has the capability to auto-update. I’m all for auto-updating, and I do like a lot of those applications, such as the Google Desktop, AdAware, and Firefox. I’m not as thrilled with Real or Norton AV, though. The idea is to make it easy to add apps for new machines without having to go through a half-dozen downloads and installs. I’m not sold on it being especially useful, though.
Google’s released beta 2 of the Google Desktop. It’s got a new nifty sidebar (which rjdohnert thinks is a “blatant ripoff” of the Longhorn sidebar), optional integration in Outlook, and more! It’s very spiffy.
Sidebar gives you one-glance access to all your personalized information:
* News: See the latest news headlines personalized to your interests
* Web Clips: Read RSS and Atom feeds from anywhere on the web
* Scratch Pad: Type and save notes for yourself
* Weather: Keep track of weather forecasts for multiple locations
* Photos: Watch a slideshow of photos from the web and on your computer
* Stocks: Keep track of up-to-the-minute prices for your favorite stocks
* Email: Read new email, including Outlook and Gmail, as you get it
* Quick View: Keep a list of frequently used web pages and files handy