Monday, April 23, 2007

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Google’s Click-to-Call Cancelled?

This is one of the stranger messages appearing on the official Google Blog – note the last line of this unsigned post (update: that post has been removed now):
Google Click-to-Call project cancelled10/07/2006 05:07:34 PMAfter concientiously considering, Google has decided not to continue with Google Click-to-call project. The project has been in the media on last days because of the notice of Google agreement with e-Bay. We finally consider click-to-call agreement with e-Bay a monopolistic aproach that would damage small companies in the CRM area.This message has been translated using Google language tools.

Google Interested In YouTube?

AP says Google “is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube Inc. for about $1.6 billion in cash and stock, according to published reports.” I’ve seen the rumors pop up before but being repeated at AP gives them some more credibility...
Just recently, Google Video was spotted experimenting with more YouTube-like, community-oriented features. If they do buy the site I believe it wouldn’t be for technical reasons, but indeed to aquire content & community. Then again, you can’t just buy a community...

Future of modern humanity

Web 2.0 ‘knowledge’: future of modern humanity? (I hope not) by ZDNet's Donna Bogatin -- If scrutinized, logical truths are displaced by Web 2.0 induced, unmanaged “knowledge,” what does modern humanity portend?