Tag Archives: Google

Now THAT’S What I Call Contextual!

If only all online video ads were so startlingly relevant, we’d all be billionaires.

Hulu Thoughts

There’s no shortage of Hulu coverage elsewhere (TechCrunch, WSJ, NewTeeVee) that I unfortunately don’t have time to fully read and digest just yet…but I will leave some initial thoughts after interacting with the first embeddable clip I used in my Hulu test:

I really dig the little scrubbable clip customizer, that lets you grab a small [...]

Google Celebrates Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa

Noticed something when I did a search for some Christmas-related stuff on Google today:

And I went ahead and checked — Google’s giving the same treatment to Hanukkah:

And Kwanzaa:

But I’m sad to report, no Google love for Festivus.

Fun With Widgets

I know of five platforms for Desktop widgets — can any of the Techcrunch junkies out there tell me if I’ve missed any?:

Yahoo! Widgets (formerly Konfabulator)
Google Desktop Gadgets
Windows Live Gadgets (formerly Microsoft Gadgets)
SpringWidgets (from Fox Interactive)
Mac OSX Dashboard Widgets

SpotRunner

I don’t want to gush too much until I actually try it…but at first glance, SpotRunner looks AWESOME.  How long before Google buys them, and assimilates their service into AdWords?

Google at CES

Engadget did an excellent job of providing live play-by-play.  Be sure to read their wrap-up.
To sum it up — there was a Video announcement (premium content for about $2/show will be available in the near future for download thru Google Video), but contrary to my earlier report, it didn’t have anything to do with Google [...]

Get ready for your Google Pack

The Wall Street Journal’s reporting that Google’s big CES announcement is in fact video-related, as earlier suggested by Om Malik. 
According to WSJ (via Reuters UK), Google will announce new video distribution partnerships (with content creators/distributors) and new software to enable rights-managed video to be purchased thru Google Video.  The new software is supposedly called [...]

OM: No Google Cube…improved Google Video

Om Malik’s saying that Google’s big announcement tomorrow at CES is related to Google Video, not a "Google Cube" announcement.

Friday! Friday! Friday!

This Friday, January 6 at 4pm, to be exact.  That’s when Larry Page will be giving a keynote at CES 2006.  It could also be when we get a big announcement about what’s next from Google. 
According to an article in today’s L.A. Times, it sounds like it could be a super-cheap PC with a [...]

Google’s 2005 Q3

Mama mia…Google sure had a good third quarter.