This WEEK in GOOGLE 122

This WEEK in GOOGLE Episode 122

This WEEK in GOOGLE 122: Dude, You're a Barista

Panel

• Leo Laporte (@leolaporte • friendfeed.com/leolaporte)
  • Leoville.com
• Gina Trapani (@ginatrapani • friendfeed.com/ginatrapani)
  • Smarterware.org
  • Completewaveguide.com
  • FastCompany.com/WorkSmart
• Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis • friendfeed.com/jeffjarvis)
  • Buzzmachine.com
  • Guardian.co.uk/MediaTalkUSA
• Dan Patterson
  • @danpatterson
  • danpatterson.com

Topics

• Google kills even more stuff
  • Google kills Knol, Wave, and others to focus operations
  • Google Gives Up On Green Tech Investment Initiative RE<C
  • More spring cleaning out of season

• SEO and Google: Dexter agrees with Leo
  • Google is so 5 minutes ago
  • Jeff: some companies go too far with SEO to grow big and they lose sight of being relevant to their audience. As they discussed in TWiG 119.

• Google Doodles
  • Google doodle has a Thanksgiving-theme and it's shareable via Google+
  • Google.co.uk has an animated doodle celibrating science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem

• Google+ added trends
  • Google+ Expands Search Options, Adds Trending Topics To Search Results

• The speed of change in the world
  • The e-book Race against the Machine

• The Samsung Galaxy S II
  • The next big thing is already here
  • 1984
  • I'm a Mac ads

• Chris Debona reacts to the news that Android's a malware magnet, says McAfee

Segments

"We Do A Little Thing At The End"

• Gina's tip of the week:
  • The Google Search app for iPad just got updated

• Dan's gentle reminder of the week: if you want to keep the content you post on Google+, Facebook, Twitter etc. there are a number of tools.
  • Google Takeout
  • For Wordpress.org users there are a number of plugins that will import the Google+ stream. Beware: it is a buggy proces so you need to be a developer to modify the process. There a three plugins Dan likes and he will add them to the show notes.
  • Leo uses Thinkup and Publicsync

• Gina's second (and third) tip of the week:
  • you can restrict search results in Google search to applications. Use the Applications filter in the left column.
  • When you visit your family with Thanksgiving upload Firefox or Chrome installer on the thumb drive and update your family's browser.

• Jeff's number of the week:
  • $200.000. That's the amount of money is cost to develop the abysmal OSHA Heat Safety Tool app. Rich Goodwin gave Jeff this number.
  • Leo expected Jeff to use the number 4.7, which is the number of degrees of Facebook Separation

• Leo's tool of the week:
  • Not a tool but a story: Microsoft offers free bacon outside Amazon and Google HQ

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