6 posts tagged “google”

So it seems
that my post about Google Maps Street View infiltrating my garage has created a buzz.  My stat counter logs are full of Google based visitors.  Hi googleplex.

Dear Google people:
Please stop in and say Hi.  Please don't be a stranger.

Google Maps Street View - INSIDE MY GARAGE
They turned on street views on google maps for Indianapolis.  Here is my lovely house with the garage door open.  I recognize this because in the back of the blue trailblazer is one of our storage chests - this was the day the wife moved out of the house.  It's so nice of google to have permanently recorded this.

GoogleLookingInMyGarage

I read over on
Techcrunch about the rebranding of the personalized google homepages as igoogle.  This reminded me of the Weatherbug gadget that I wanted to try out.  I added it and instantly hated it.  I don't like graphically enhanced, glassy, web2.0, overdone crap so I deleted the gadget.  A few seconds after that I refreshed my page and BAM!  All of the last 2 years worth of personalizations and feeds were gone!  I had two tabs worth of daily content simply disappear from my 'igoogle'

Just a note to be
careful with personalizing your google page...  they might have an issue to address here.

Google

It would appear that
Google's continued steps toward world domination of advertising delivery is about to take a big step forward.  WSJ is reporting that Google is working a deal to buy Adscape out of San Francisco.  Adscape owns technology that allows insertion of in game ads in video games over the web.

If this is true then it is a certainty that they will insert ads in YouTube videos - of course all of this is IMHO.

How long before
Google starts selling 5 second splash ads to be inserted in every YouTube video?  I'll tell you how long - as long it takes 'em to finish the payoffs to the major content owners.  Can you imagine the bang that a company could get by having it's ad inserted in all YouTube videos for a day or week? ALL YOUTUBE VIDEOS!

The smartest thing
that YouTube/Google are doing is to allow unfettered embedding of those videos. And ya' know that little YouTube logo in the bottom right corner - yea that one, it is not there so that you will click through and look at ads on YouTube proper, rather it is there so that every buyer/marketing/ad agency knows who to contact when they want to run a blitz.

It is quite possible
that the Google purchase of YouTube for $1.65B could turn out to be the steal of the century.  Further more, Google may be the most undervalued public company in the history of public companies.

After 11 interviews including
two days at the Googleplex of what I can describe as the most grueling professional experience of my life, the inevitable 'Thank you' note has arrived. 

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My shot at working for the the mecca of new media and technology convergence - done, over wit, not happening, gone, finite, shot down.  I am drinking tonight for sure - to celebrate my shoot-down.

On the other
hand, The Wild Palms in Sunnyvale was a nice place to stay for my two days of professional confidence tear down.