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17 Nov 2010 21:49

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Biz, Tech: Google stumbles with high-fashion wannabe Boutiques.com

  • Hey Google, just some advice: If you’re creating high-fashion anything, the design can’t look like a crappy hacked, brittle WordPress knock-off. This design sucks. Why would anyone shop here for clothes? It looks, um, sloppy. But then, so did the design of Like.com, which Google acquired a few months ago (and whose team designed this). The basic idea behind both Like.com and this (think using “visual search” to find the pair of shoes you like) is pretty good, but something simply doesn’t congeal here. Design is everything with this market. source
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13 Nov 2010 12:04

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Tech: Uh-oh: Is Facebook prepping to attack Gmail head-on?

  • issue Over the last week or so, Google and Facebook have been entwined in an argument over Facebook’s importing of Gmail contacts; Google wants them to open up, but Facebook instead has worked around Google’s roadblocks.
  • reason? So why has Facebook been so resistant to Google’s open-up-your-datastream advances? Well, it seems Facebook is about to launch some sort of messaging thing on Monday. Is it e-mail? Because if it is, that would explain a lot. source
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11 Nov 2010 22:53

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Tech: Google/Facebook have lots of money to throw around

  • $3.5 million paid by Google to retain top engineer source
  • » Good engineers are in short supply. At least, that’s what we’re gleaning from the numbers being thrown at them by Google and Facebook. Earlier this year, a Google engineer turned down a 15% raise and $500,000 in cash restricted stock to go work for Facebook. So, Google smartened up: when another staff engineer was seduced by Facebook, Google offered them $3.5 million — yes, million — to stay. They accepted.
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10 Nov 2010 11:17

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Tech: That Facebook-Google fight over your friends gets nasty

  • The war over importing contacts escalates. The other day, Google decided to stop allowing Facebook to import their contacts, partly for competitive reasons. Facebook then devised a way around it that was actually pretty clever. Google has now put up this scare page to let people know that no, you shouldn’t offer your data to Facebook so quickly. So, why won’t Facebook bend on this issue again? And what does this mean for other services that aren’t Google? Well, a key Facebook engineer argues that Google doesn’t practice what it’s preaching. This is a pretty drama-laden fight that keeps getting bigger. source
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06 Nov 2010 19:47

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Tech: Proxy war: Facebook, Google fighting over your friends

  • cause Google, looking to build its own social networking product to compete with Facebook (Orkut doesn’t count apparently) wants Facebook to open up its data stream so they can use it.
  • reaction Facebook says no, so Google changes their policy so Facebook can’t simply grab contacts from Gmail accounts anymore. You joined Facebook five years ago, so it doesn’t matter. source
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01 Nov 2010 18:55

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Tech: Need some extra cash? Make Google less vulnerable

  • $500 or more could be yours if you fix Google’s bugs source
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31 Oct 2010 21:27

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Tech: Why did super-developer Lars Rasmussen leave Google, anyway?

  • what Lars Rasmussen, a key Google staffer who famously crated Google Maps (and Google Wave) decided to leave the company recently. Understandable, because they killed his Google Wave baby.
  • why He’s going to Facebook! He revealed the news to the Sydney Morning Herald, saying: “It feels to me that Facebook may be a sort of once-in-a-decade type of company.” We can see that. source
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31 Oct 2010 10:57

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Tech: Apple and Motorola lawsuits more annoying than anything

  • All these lawsuits between Apple and Motorola are silly. In the latest suit (a counter-suit, even), the iPhone maker sued Motorola for using multitouch technology (among other things which Apple owns patents for) in nine of its phones, including each of the popular Droid models. These suits are excuses for each company to get in the other’s hair, and basically do nothing useful. Honestly, if Apple was really serious about fighting these claims against their multitouch technology, they would’ve sued when the first Droid phone came out. Now, it just seems like a vindictive attempt at leverage. source
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29 Oct 2010 20:21

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Tech: Peace out, Chad Hurley: YouTube co-founder heads for the exit

  • Thanks for the viral memories, Chad. It’s always a sad day when a founder leaves a company, as Chad Hurley is about to do with YouTube. Especially when the company runs one of the three most important sites on the entire Web (along with Google proper and Facebook). Hurley, who has enough money under his belt that he probably never has to work ever again, has earned the chance to do something else. He’s been replaced as chief executive by Salar Kamangar, currently the company’s vice president of product management and the guy who’s been doing much of the grunt work over the last couple of years. Kamangar has made the company nearly profitable, yeah, but Hurley made it relevant. source
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25 Oct 2010 20:31

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Tech: Google’s Android’s app store: Quickly catching up to Apple

  • 100,000 number of apps in the Android store, a threefold increase since March
  • 300,000number of apps in the iTunes store – they had a huge head start
  • 200knumber of new phones that get activated daily
  • 270knumber of developers working on apps
  • 32countries have paid app sales source
  • » Problems to solve: Many developers make their Android apps for free (and rely on in-app ads to pay the bills) not because they want to make them free, but because the payment process is so convoluted that many people don’t feel like going through it. Also, a major problem that developers have which iPhone developers don’t have to deal with at all is the fracturing of the platform – there are dozens of phones on the market with tiny but important quirks.
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