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Will Facebook replace company Web sites?
Stephen Haines, commercial director of Facebook’s U.K. operation, speaking in London at the Engineering for Advertising and marketing and Marketing conference.
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LONDON–A day may well be coming when the energy of Facebook implies that major firms no longer bother with their own Internet websites.
That was the startling if self-promotional chance sketched out by Stephen Haines, commercial director of Facebook’s U.K. operation, even though speaking these days at the Technology for Marketing and Marketing conference right here. Basically, Haines argued, companies’ interactions with their buyers could take place so often on Facebook that firm Internet websites would… Continue reading
Google search formula gets more discerning (AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google has changed its secret search formula in the United States to be far more discerning when it comes to which web sites are worth recommending and which ought to sink in the rankings.
The move announced late Thursday was part of an ongoing duel among the search titan and low-top quality web sites that characteristic only content material copied from elsewhere on the Web or use techniques to trick their way high in results.
“A lot of of the changes we make are so subtle that very handful of people discover them,” Google principal engineer… Continue reading
Google’s Web-Based Android Market Selling E-Books
The Web version of Google’s Android Marketplace is rolling out e-books.
IntoMobile.com reported Thursday that the online version of the Android Marketplace had begun to display e-books. The internet site included a title, Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life as proof.
When PCMag.com checked Thursday afternoon, a reporter was unable to pull up any e-books when it checked the site’s listings, and neither the book’s author, Carol Sklenicka, nor the title of the book returned any hits in the search outcomes. Later, nevertheless, the e-book capability appeared.
Users will need to click the “Books”… Continue reading
Google cooks recipes into search menu (AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google has started cooking recipes into its search menu in a way that lets men and women effortlessly find guidelines for whipping up dishes in the kitchen.
A “Recipe View” function that Google is rolling out in the United States and Japan turns the search engine into an on the web cook book of sorts.
“My parents comply with the art of cooking by intuition, where the correct amount of each spice is measured out by gut feel, but that’s never ever worked extremely nicely for me,” Google product manager Kavi Goel mentioned although introducing Recipe… Continue reading
Internet Restored in Libya, Google Maps Shows Up-To-Date Info
The World wide web has been restored to Libya soon after the country shut down its network links to the outside world for six hours final evening. Now that the Internet is back, protesters are making the most of their connectivity by mapping tweets using Google Maps.
According to those trusty wire watchers at Renesys, “Two-thirds of Libyan routes came back to life at 6:01 UTC [1:01 a.m. Eastern], and the remainder had been restored nine minutes later … and Libya is back on the Web.”
Now that the net is back, we can see brave folks tweeting away, letting… Continue reading
Forrester’s George Colony: Hello, App Internet. Goodbye, Web
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By ERIC SAVITZ
The Web is dead. Long live the App World wide web.
George Colony: Android rocks. Google, not so considerably.
George Colony, the outspoken CEO of Forrester Study (FORR), thinks the Internet as you know it is essentially dead. In a wide-ranging interview with Forbes in San Francisco last week, Colony asserted that we’re moving into a revamped on the web world, which he calls the App Internet. We’re seeing it currently, of course, on sensible phones and tablets. There are apps on TVs, and apps… Continue reading
Google Web Toolkit improves HTML5 support
Google and JetBrains are offering on Monday technologies upgrades in the HTML5 and PHP application improvement spaces respectively with Google upgrading GWT (Google Internet Toolkit) and JetBrains adding to its PHP IDE.
With GWT two.2, for constructing browser applications, Google is like help for HTML5-distinct features, such as the canvas 2D element and the embedding of audio and video tags. “These APIs are still experimental and may possibly change a bit more than the next couple releases, but we feel that they’re stable adequate to deserve some genuine mileage [by you],” said Chris Ramsdale, of Google Developer Tools Team, in… Continue reading
