Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Don Dodge, Google and Goals

Google Uses Microsoft!

Dod Dodge is a very cool guy.  He was ousted from Microsoft a few months back and has taken up residency at Google.  He has a great post here in regards to goals and kicking butt.

Google sets impossible bodacious goals…and then achieves them. The engineering mindset of solving the impossible problem is part of the culture instilled in every group at Google.

This post is full of information – but this has to be my favorite quote:

Achieving 65% of the impossible is better than 100% of the ordinary

We have a goal program at my work – but it is nothing like this.  Take the time and read this post – they set goals on 90 day time periods, it makes you think and achieve.  Everyday.

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Google goes live with StreetView Ads

This is brilliant.  Just like many of the video game makers ahve been doing for a while.

This patent, which was originally filed on July 7, 2008, describes a new system for promoting ads in online mapping applications. In this patent, Google describes // <![CDATA[// how it plans to identify buildings, posters, signs and billboards in these images and give advertisers the ability to replace these images with more up-to-date ads. In addition, Google also seems to plan an advertising auction for unclaimed properties.

Check it out over at Red Write Web

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How fast is your site?

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How fast is your site?

This is a very timely article, as today our network guy gave a me a call to warn me our website’s error log was out-of-control.  The caching plugin we were using was haywire.  I had to turn off the page level caching to slow the bleeding.  That increased our page load times and Tim said, and I quote, “this is getting so slow – page load times are almost 3 seconds.:

WHAT – 3 seconds.  Seriously – but he is right.  We need to get pages loading as fast as possible…and now.

Here is a tool for you:

We’ve just launched Site Performance, an experimental feature in Webmaster Tools that shows you information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster.

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The Google Phone "Is a Certainty"

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I’m just saying – you mix WiMax with a Google phone (or even a iPod Touch that lets you do some VOIP) and you can kiss hat cell phone bill goodbye.  What if Verizon got off their backside and just hooked us up with a way to add a cell card to these…anyway a Google phone:

And by “Google Phone” we don’t simply mean another Android handset. We’re talking about Google-branded hardware running a version of Android we haven’t yet seen.

The Google Phone “Is a Certainty”

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New Google Calendar Features

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I’ve said for a while now that the biggets reason Outlook has not crubled in a pile of internal-server-based junk mail is the calendar.  It’s just hard to beat, replicate and substitute.

Google is trying, not winning yet…but trying.

“We’re working a new feature that makes it easier to schedule events with guests. The new event page will include a calendar right next to your guest list, so you can see when people are free,” explains Google.

This is a good first step.  Step 2 – figure out a way to let people share locations.  Then they can do group scheduling of people and places.

Google Calendar Sneek Peek

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Google Maps Finally Ready to Tell You "What's Here" for Any Point on a Map… Almost

Google Maps Finally Ready to Tell You “What’s Here” for Any Point on a Map… Almost.

Attention media companies – please make sure to encode geo locations with your new stories.  Everyone in the world would like to mash them up for you.

Thank you.

Google, breaking the brand for Morse.

googleNot the search, or the gmail, or the reader, or event eh Google voice.  Just their attitude.  It may even border on cocky…but cool none the less.  How many times have you seen a company (I know mine does it all the time lately) worry all about the brand.  They do not sacrifice the brand image for anything…almost to the extream.

Google broke the  rules on that the other day – April 27 – the birthday of Samuel Morris.

The flippin’ changed their logo for the day.  OMG.  Seriously – but when you think about, is it crazy?  Or crazy like a fox?  If you do something so different – it actually causes more of a stir and eyes to “look”and if it was a subtle change.

How many people looked extra hard at the logo that day?

I just think it’s the kind of thing we need to try once in a while – teh “secret weapon” of bradning.  But I also think it can only be used when you have a firm grip on the audience and are at a place where traffic is also very good.

If you know of any other interesting ideas like this – please add them to the comments.

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Google is 'messin' with Amazon and the Kindle

Google Offers 500,000 Books for Free on Sony Reader.

Um…not sure what you htink – but I see Google giggling on this one.  The official Kindle page says over 245,000.  Um, that’s half than the free ones Google has.  :)

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Seth's Blog: Personal branding in the age of Google

Seth’s Blog: Personal branding in the age of Google.

Woah…so I guess my questions is, isn’t it better to know?  Would we ever hire anyone if we knew everything?

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