Loving Google’s Doodle today, its tribute to Dr. Robert Moog and his invention of the electronic analog Moog Synthesizer.
The interactive Doodle let’s gives you access to your own online Moog and you can record your attempts. Hours and hours of fun as you have your own attempt to create sounds used by bands such as The Beatles, The Doors, Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk and many others. Read More
Last week, I was lucky enough to attend the fifth in the series of Google Firestarters events for planners and digital media folk. Cory Doctorow, the renowned science fiction novelist, journalist, technology activist, and co-editor of Boing Boing was on intense, rapid fire, glorious form. I began with every intention of tweeting ironic witticisms from the event but was so drawn in by his manic and impassioned delivery that it was impossible to do anything but listen intently for fear of missing something. Read More
It is being reported that Facebook will begin its investor roadshow for its initial public on Monday, which means that its shares should begin trading on May 18.
The roadshow will see founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg closely involved, according to sources quoted by Reuters. To date he has been mostly in the background as the IPO has progressed and did not attend an analysts’ meeting in March. Read More
The SEO community has been in a bit of a buzz over the last few weeks. Google, dominant in so many territories, has begun to email tens of thousands of site owners with warnings.
Google’s warnings include alerts of traffic drops, traffic spikes, out of date software but also when the search engine is concerned about the quality of the links pointing to the site.
This is significant. In the past brands and agencies had to work out from changes to the search results as to whether Google was happy with the links the brand site was attracting.
Google are continuing their determined push into the social world by incorporating Google+ commenting into YouTube, the major video service owned by them. However, such moves may have deeper cultural ramifications for the company.
Speaking to Reuters, YouTube Head of Operations Tom Pickett said:
“YouTube has been lacking great social features. Commenting and sharing have been part of YouTube, but the experiences could be much better than they are,”
The Guardian has gone big with an interview today with inventor of the internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who warns against the dangers of big web firms controlling too much of our data.
He says consumers do not yet understand the value of the data held about them by big firms and he wants people to demand their personal data from the likes of Google and Facebook. Read More
Google Drive is – in theory – days away from a big unveiling and the cloud storage system looks like it will take on rivals like Dropbox, iCloud and SkyDrive in the free space fight. Read More
Some of the stats here aren’t completely up-to-date, but that said this is a really useful infographic on Google+.
Google+ said last week that it now has 170m users as it unveiled a fresh look, indicating that more and more people are on it but this infographic goes someway to address questions regarding what Google+ can be used for, which is something many in the industry are still trying to work out. Read More
Google has this afternoon unveiled a redesign of its social network, which it says offers “a more functional and flexible version of Google+”. It says it hopes users, who are currently spending little time on Google+, will find it easier to use.
The changes include tweaks to navigation, the stream and hangouts, but also includes a new Explore page that shows what’s interesting and trending across the network and a new profile with bigger photos. Read More
Google+ (Search Plus Your World) is over a year into its life and most of us are still wondering exactly where it’s positioned in the market. Google are notoriously anti-competitive and as a publisher, it kind of feels like we’re 
being bullied into finding a use for it as a service. This is an ironic twist for me as I commented earlier last year that it was social media commentators picking on the search giants 19th foray into the social space.
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