Can't Stop Geeking

Anybody remember Google Wave? You don’t? Oh, well then, apparently you aren’t alone. Google announced that they are going to stop development on Wave. They are going to keep the service maintained until the end of the year and eventually release tools to get your content from Wave off the service. Kinda sad that Wave didn’t catch on because it was a pretty neat tool with some nice potential. If you don’t know, Wave is like a sort of mashup between a message board, a chat room, email, and Facebook. It was pretty ambitious and a lot of people didn’t really dig into it and look into all the neat extensions that were made for it. Oh well, hopefully they take some lessons learned from Wave and put it to use in the future.

Source: Engadget

Congratulations to Google for reaching a huge milestone on the Android Market! The billionth app was downloaded today, a little more than a year and a half after launch. Not bad considering how Droid was slow to start off compared to the iPhone, which took only 9 months to reach a billion app downloads. This number continues to grow at a very fast rate, since Android OS is catching on pretty well now. Now I just wonder when they’ll reach the 2 billion mark.

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225800262

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If you still need powerful computers for designing graphics or other coding issues, you’ll still one of those. But if you want to surf the internet, it appears that you will soon be doing that with your TV. Google is offering software to be integrated into certain TVs as well as some satellite TV services. This will help some people who want to surf the internet but have vision issues or can’t get really fast internet access. This should be an interesting development to watch. Google seems to be innovating to grab some of the market away from Apple. And you know what the best part is? We as consumers are going to benefit the most from this.

Oh, those silly Silicon Valley Boys.  I guess Apple and Google are starting to get into the heated argument ring with each other.  Apple is miffed that Google is promoting the Droid which resembles the iPhone in a number of ways and Google is irked that Apple appears to be trying to shut Google out of the mobile web market.  Personally, I think both companies need a little reality check.  Apple needs to free themselves from the exclusive contract with AT&T so that Verizon customers can have an iPhone.  In this age of technology and expense, entering into an exclusive agreement with a company limits your sales.  If AT&T was hoping Verizon would go away, the strategy of having the iPhone exclusively didn’t seem to work.

Suzanne Choney from MSNBC wrote this article last Friday detailing some research done as to whether the internet is helping or hurting human intelligence. Some say that the access to all the information the internet has is making us smarter in a slightly different way than in years past. Others say that we are using Google as a crutch to do the bare minimum in terms of research. So where do you stand?

Me personally, I think the information on the internet is fantastic. I’ve accessed things and studies topics I wouldn’t normally have been able to. On the other hand, with the proliferation of blogs and other sites put up with faulty information, reading info from one site only doesn’t alkways paint the fullest picture. If you plan to do research, it’s best to gather information from multiple, credible sites.

Google is set to take down it Chinese search engine due to allegations that the Chinese government’s actions toward human rights activists using gmail to communicate as well as oppressing other companies.  I wonder if  the doomsday clock movement on Thursday has something to do with this.

I know people who work for T-Mobile and I can tell you with certain that T-Mobile has blocked access to the Droid website to all front line employees. I can also tell you that this is the first time that this has happened in the history of T-Mobile! So what are they worried about? Motorolla’s Droid is much better then the Cliq and is on par with the MyTouch. Now I’m even more excited about the Droid!

Wow, it was true. When Google developed Andriod they boldly stated that it would become the only platform that mobile devices use. Well, Motorola jumped onboard with the Moto Clique and now Samsung is adding it to the Behold II.

Is anyone developing Android software to post outside of the Google market place? I’m very leery of anyone doing this? If they can’t get it approved by Google is it safe to be used on your device? I guess I know that good developers might just choose not to submit to Google for personal reasons but it just seems sketchy that they wouldn’t. Any thoughts on this?

Anyone notice how big Google is really getting? First mobile phones, next their own operating system and now they are putting out applications that will put other industries to task. For example, they are releasing an application that will simply take revenue away from mobile carriers. If someone did this to them they would smack them hard and make sure they felt it for a long time. Just seems like maybe they forgot the little guy!