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It’s been a crazy couple months. The government finally approved our deal with Google after realizing that the industry changes fast. Our CEO, Omar, put everything into perspective when he pointed out that AdMob had been under scrutiny for roughly … Continue reading
New Google Chrome OS
Google just announced that they will be releasing an OS based around Chrome. An amazing move for Google as this gets them instantly on a the radar of every netbook manufacturer out there. Microsoft’s licensing fees for Windows are generally … Continue reading
New Gmail Spammer Trick
I just received a spam that I thought was a very clever way to by pass Gmail’s spam filters. They put in a docs.google.com link! They would probably never filter out email with links to docs.google.com! Genius.
2008 Predictions Retrospective
So 2008 is almost coming to an end and what a wild ride in the tech industry. In some cases we’re better off, no more start ups getting inflated valuations for putting a website (see crazy valuations of facebook apps). … Continue reading
I Think I Broke Google
The url for the above image is actually http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=3AX&q=computers&start=360&sa=N. It’s supposed to be the 36th page of the query “computers”. You can test it yourself and if you happen to hit the same shard/bug as me, you can see the … Continue reading
AppEngine: First Impressions
I’ve been developing a small app using Google’s AppEngine. My first impression is that developing in the sandboxed python environment forces you to KISS. The SDK makes things dead simple in terms of templating, data access, and controlling which scripts … Continue reading
Google App Engine: No AWS Killer, Python++
Tonight Google releases Google App Engine and TechCrunch.com has the coverage. The biggest news is that App Engine is free to use up to a certain amount, like all other Google developer services. (As I previously postulated.) Pricing after the … Continue reading
Google Web Services Should be Free?
Dave Winer offers a compelling reason on why Google would offer it’s Web Services (AWS competitor) for free. (That is if they actually release one like I predicted for this year.) The basic premise is that if GWS were free, … Continue reading