This WEEK in GOOGLE 6

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This WEEK in GOOGLE Episode 6

"All Your O's Are Belong To Us"Hosts: Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, and Jeff Jarvis Guest: Matt Cutts Recorded: September 5, 2009 Published: September 5, 2009 Duration: 01:20:23 FriendFeed conversation Transcript Previous episode – Next episode

Contents 1 This WEEK in GOOGLE 6: All Your O's Are Belong To Us 1.1 Panel 2 Topics 3 Segments 3.1 "We Do A Little Thing At The End" 3.2 Wish List (What the panelists wish Google would do) 4 External Links 5 Sponsors 6 Production Information

[edit] This WEEK in GOOGLE 6: All Your O's Are Belong To Us

Gmail goes down, Snow Leopard, Dropbox, Google News, Book Search, Tivo, and more.

[edit] Panel

• Leo Laporte (@leolaporte • friendfeed.com/leolaporte)
  • Leoville.com
• Gina Trapani (@ginatrapani • friendfeed.com/ginatrapani)
  • Smartware.org
• Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis • friendfeed.com/jeffjarvis)
  • Buzzmachine.com
• Matt Cutts (@mattcutts • friendfeed.com/mattcutts)
  • Mattcutts.com/blog

[edit] Topics

• Gmail goes down (Link to blog post on Gmail Blog
• 5 Things We Learned From the Gmail Outage
• Gmail incident report
• Print media get mad at Google.
• Google Book Search causing a outrage with US Publishers and Authors. Google Scanning books without permission. Google is scanning 32 million in and out of print books.
• Movies on YouTube (Video)
• How Google Ranks News (Video on Guardian.co.uk)
• http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
• http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ascii+art
• HTC Hero on Sprint

Links to Dropbox, Android, Google Voice, Google Wave, Blogger and Google Chrome are in External Links

[edit] Segments

[edit] "We Do A Little Thing At The End"

• Gina's tip of the week:
  • TWiG Tip: Sync Your Google Calendar to iCal in One Step. Revised from live show by Gina: iCal DOES support secondary Google calendars.

• Jeff's stat of the week:
  • 1 and 51. 1 = Google News added Arabic to its languages. 51 = Google Translate now has 51 languages. New Languages added are; Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish.

• Leo's tool of the week:
  • Google Squared

[edit] Wish List (What the panelists wish Google would do)

• Leo: Google Wave invite and to be able to send invites out to family and friends on Google Voice.
• Gina: None
• Jeff: Google Wave invite+

[edit] External Links

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• Official TWiG Site
• FriendFeed conversations room
• Story Links on Delicious
• Dropbox
• Listen for Android
• Google Voice
• Google Wave
• Blogger
• Google Chrome

[edit] Sponsors

(None)

[edit] Production Information

• Recorded Date: September 5, 2009
• Release Date: September 5, 2009
• Duration: 01:20:23
• Log line:
• Edited by: Erik
• Notes:
  • Removed dead air while connecting to guest at 13:28.
  • Removed Gina's factual error re iCal at 01:14:39 at her request.
  • Used PGM1 track because Matt Cutts was not recorded on own track.
  • Used hard limiter with +4dB gain in lieu of compressor because track was already so compressed.