This evening at its Campfire One event, Google showcased a number of new technologies coming to Google Web Toolkit (you can see my live blog of the event here ). The big announcements include the release of a new Speed Tracer tool to help developers speed up their web apps; a code splitting...
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As we all know, today was Chrome Extension day . By now, you’ve likely tried out many of them and picked some that you like as well as those that you don’t. Easily one of my favorites so far is the Brizzly extension built by Thing Labs. It’s hands down the best-looking app...
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Net radio provider Pandora is preparing to move more aggressively into the automotive space, with deeper integration with car radios and controls on the horizon.
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High Gear Media , a publishing company focused on automotive digital media, is having a great year. The Palo Alto, CA-based vertical content startup raised a second round of funding last Summer to the tune of $5.5 million and has been growing like a weed. Today, the company’s announcing that Chas Edwards is...
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Ned Desmond has gone fishin’ and he wants you to Go FISHn too. Today, Desmond launched a fishing site for the Facebook age. You can sign in with your Facebook ID, share fishing stories and photos with your friends, ask questions to fishing pros and the community, and review all the gear in...
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When Microsoft laid off Microsoft’s Director of Business Development Don Dodge last month we called it a huge mistake . He was Microsoft’s “ambassador” to startups and largely responsible for the success of the Bizspark program (the Bizspark program gives Microsoft products for free to startups, and also funds a number of tech...
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With all of the news surrounding Google’s newest additions to its search technology, Google’s latest upgrade to Google Analytics has been overshadowed. Analytics is the search giant’s free software product that allows website owners and publishers to get detailed statistics about the number, whereabouts and search behavior of their visitors (and much more)....
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The company's researchers have launched EntityCube, an automated search tool that aims to pull together biographical information on even the not so famous.
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A new section of Google's search results page will be dedicated to so-called "real time" searches with automatically refreshed updates from sources like Twitter.
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I’m here at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA where Google is holding an event to showcase its upcoming search technologies. Google hasn’t said much about what we’ll be hearing about today, but it’s clear they’ve got some big things planned — they’ve decked out the museum with colorful Google logos, have...
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