Besides the Froyo update to the Android OS, the other big announcement for the Thursday keynote of the Google IO 2010 is Google TV. From the demo, this is what I learned about it. It’s a software muxer. That is, Google TV itself does not have TV tuners or DVR, nor Google manufactures any of [...]
Today, Google officially admitted that their experiment in the mobile space to create a provider-independent, web-only handset market was a failure. Most people were predicting such since Verizon and Sprint decided against carrying Nexus One on their networks. Ever since their initial announcement earlier this year, this web-only store were fraught with many problems, and [...]
In the middle of the October 2004 issue of Communications of the ACM, there was a peculiar-looking insert titled “GLAT: Google Labs Aptitude Test”. It had a very official looking format and was a fairly well-made mock-up test. It was fun and all that, but it somehow reminded me of what Microsoft used to do [...]
Maybe it’s just my vanity thing, but I like to check the web access logs to my site everyday. I’ve written several perl scripts to analyze the logs to see who’s visiting and what they are looking at and where they are coming from. I’ve noticed that these days most of the referred links are [...]