This WEEK in GOOGLE 38

This WEEK in GOOGLE Episode 38

This WEEK in GOOGLE 38: Self-Aggrandizing Jerks

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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

Topics

• Jeff escapes Europe (and meets TWiG fan). Jeff was attending re:publica in Germany.
  • NYTimes tracking the Ash cloud
• All of the Chirp announcements.
  • Twitter launches "Promoted Tweets".
  • Twitter launches annotations. Annotations adds metadata to a Tweet. Apps can also use this.
• Gina's ThinkTank app gets its first run by the White House with 2 tweets and 1 Facebook status update.
  • Tweet 1
  • Tweet 2
• Overture Founder Launches Tweetup, “Adsense For Twitter”.
• Twitter buying Tweetie - will it hurt their developers/partners/community?
• Replay it: Google search across the Twitter archive
• The Library of Congress in Washington D.C. will hold the official Twitter archive.
• Who said tweets were trivial?
• Major update for Google Docs
• Google Follow Finder for Twitter
• Google acquires Plink - identifies art.
• Google Will Open Source On2 VP8 Codec
• Does Google have an iPad killer, or not?
• Google Cloud Printing
• Princeton Report Identifies iPad DHCP Problem
• Many Puzzled by Israel's iPad Ban

Segments

"We Do A Little Thing At The End"

• Gina's tip of the week:
  • Drag and drop attachments onto Gmail messages
  • What Android Apps I’ve Got Installed–And You?
    • Leo's Appbrain (created during the show)
• Jeff's stat of the week:
  • Google has 1 million servers

• Leo's tool of the week:
  • Google Follow Finder for Twitter
  • CallTrack for Android

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Production Information

• Edited by: Erik
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