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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

Tech Zulu Event

Google has from late last year embarked on an in-house cleaning project. In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave. Google at the moment is shutting down iGoogle, Google Video, Chatback, Google Mini, and the Symbian Search App.

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Interview with Andrew Humphries, UK's Tech City

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Second thing that we do is encourage large organizations, companies like Google, Intel and Facebook, to invest in Tech City. An office here, in the UK, can support the West Coast of the United States in the evening and Australasia in the morning. It actually makes it a very cool place to provide technical support for a company.

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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

InfoChachkie

Google – Based on “googol,” a term devised by mathematicians to describe inconceivably large numbers that are smaller than infinity. The term is obtusely related to Google’s quest to catalog all of the world’s information, but wholly irrelevant from a user perspective. Expertcity was a great name for that business.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch. End users don’t care about the technical details anyway, so there has been some interesting work on standards for social activity streams and activity stream aggregation. The standard to watch is activity strea.ms

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Innovative Services Are A Huge Boon For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, we all love disruptive new products, like the Pebble Smart Watch and Google Glass, but recent innovative services startups, including Uber for transportation and Airbnb for lodging, have grown much bigger and faster. These range from extended warranties, to home delivery and setup, to on-site technical support.

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