Posts Tagged ‘google’
Open Letter to Google’s Larry Page
Video courtesy of Botgirl Questi Dear Larry, I don’t remember your handle in the days you were an active participant of the USENET, over a decade ago, when “web crawlers” and “search engines” were interesting mathematical problems to be tackled. To be honest, I don’t even remember my own handle those days. But what I remember very clearly is RFC 1855. Those days, we all abided by the Netiquette —…
Google+: Waving the Buzz away
Instead of working hard, which is what I should be doing, a minor health issue (at least I hope it’s minor!!) forced me to take an unwanted rest for a few days. By a mere coincidence, this was the week that Google decided to launch their new not-so-close-but-now-definitely-closed-again social service, Google Plus. Ironically, I was stuck on doing Second Life-to-social-networking integrations and needed a break, when my PhD supervisor managed…
Google and The Red Queen – An Essay By Extropia DaSilva
No, it’s not about Google Wave — but you still might find it entertaining reading! — Gwyn “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place” – Lewis Carrol. INTRODUCTION This essay, which is all about the evolution of search engines, begins (peculiarly enough) with the extraordinarily toxic rough-skinned newt, which can be found in the Pacific Northwest. Of all the…
Lively Is Dead
It’s now official, and perhaps it doesn’t come as a surprise for us Second Life® residents: after half a year of existence as a Beta product, Google decided to shut down Lively. People will still be able to enjoy it until the end of the month, then it’s gone. It would be unfair to go “told you so!” on Google’s decision. I’m pretty sure that “certain companies” and anti-SL evangelists…
Not So Lively: Chronicles of Day One on Google’s Virtual World
So by now it’s not news any more, but a fact: Google has entered the profitable (?) world of virtual worlds (pun obviously intended). A much awaited development, at least by the faithful believers that Google will save the world. I don’t think there are coincidences. In about 24 hours (not in the same day for the timezone-impaired), Sun’s Wonderland gets slashdotted, Linden Lab announces the massive growth of Second…
Google launches IMVU clone?
Breaking news, Google’s now a player in the virtual world market: http://www.lively.com/ Watch the movie, it looks nice! Better than IMVU, if the movie is any indication of how it works… as a Mac user, I have to try it later though.
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