Just checking. (via Slate)
Google Politics & Elections gives a breakdown of the questions asked during last night’s Google+ hangout with President Barack Obama.
Obama “sat down” with five voters during the virtual interview, also fielding questions other participants could submit via Google or YouTube. More than 133,000 were submitted, according to the White House.
About 35 percent of questions regarded jobs and the economy, with government reform and foreign policy making up 24 and 20 percent of questions, respectively.
This doesn’t sit well. At all.
The information will enable Google to develop a fuller picture of how people use its growing empire of Web sites. Consumers will have no choice but to accept the changes.
And of course, I await the iPhone commercials…
The policy will take effect March 1 and will also impact Android mobile phone users, who are required to log in to Google accounts when they activate their phones.
Google, the Web’s top search company and one of the most powerful technology companies, will post a link on the company’s home page tomorrow to notify users of the company’s opposition to controversial antipiracy bills being debated in Congress
Looks like the Tech world wins this round. Let’s see if the Entertainment world starts its punches: blacking out TV and content on the web in support of SOPA (or SOPA-esque bill).
Ironically, the only way to get to the bottom of this mystery is if everyone tries posting Google+ links in their Facebook profile.
Last month Apple and Microsoft teamed up to buy a batch of mobile-phone patents from Nortel for $4.5 billion. Google competed in the auction, but made crazy bids—and then abruptly pulled out at the end. Its official explanation was that the price was too high. But now it seems possible that Google never wanted the Nortel patents to begin with—and just hoped to drive up the price and force its rivals to overpay.
All three of the top winners in the first-ever Google Science Fair were female. Awesome!
Less creepy than a Facebook “poke,” but still not sure what I think about “sparks” and “huddles.”
Google doodle today in honor of the summer solstice, by artist Takashi Murakami.
Ann Curry on why you should never Google drunk: You could end up confusing Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. with Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. And you might be giving a commencement speech to one of them.
PR agency Burson-Marsteller, caught up in a scandal for running a covert anti-Google smear campaign on behalf of Facebook, says it will not fire the two PR guys who ran the operation. Instead, Burson says it will give them extra training.
One thing I’ve learned in 25 years of doing PR is, When you’re explaining, you’re losing.
Looks like Gawker and maybe Business Insider took Facebook’s PR story bait?
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