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Android Wear: Information that moves with you

 Useful information when you need it most - at a glance or in a word.

Google launches Android Wear platform for wearables, smartwatch Developer Preview, devices coming later this year

Here’s what Google is promising with Android Wear:

• Useful information when you need it most. Android Wear shows you info and suggestions you need, right when you need them. The wide variety of Android applications means you’ll receive the latest posts and updates from your favorite social apps, chats from your preferred messaging apps, notifications from shopping, news and photography apps, and more.
• Straight answers to spoken questions. Just say “Ok Google” to ask questions, like how many calories are in an avocado, what time your flight leaves, and the score of the game. Or say “Ok Google” to get stuff done, like calling a taxi, sending a text, making a restaurant reservation or setting an alarm.
• The ability to better monitor your health and fitness. Hit your exercise goals with reminders and fitness summaries from Android Wear. Your favorite fitness apps can give you real-time speed, distance and time information on your wrist for your run, cycle or walk.
• Your key to a multiscreen world. Android Wear lets you access and control other devices from your wrist. Just say “Ok Google” to fire up a music playlist on your phone, or cast your favorite movie to your TV.

Google Encrypts Search, Aims To Foil China, NSA

http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2014/03/13/google-encrypts-search-aims-to-foil-china-nsa/

Google is moving to encrypt search globally, aiming to bypass government censorship – and inhibit NSA snooping. Its latest step is to start automatically encrypting searches made in China, in an effort to counter the censorship system known as the Great Firewall of China. Using this, the Chinese government intercepts searches to check for prohibited phrases such as ‘Dalai Lama’ and ‘Falun Gong’, using its findings to target possible malcontents. That should no longer be possible.

Digital Ads: How Facebook, Google, And Twitter Target Us

http://readwrite.com/2014/01/01/digital-ads-personalization-google-facebook-twitter#awesm=~ossO1WlW8R4y8P

What kind of personal data do the social giants collect for advertisers?

Reaching The Right People

Finding The Target Demographic

Tracking Behavioral Rituals

One More Time: Remarketing

Google On The Hot Seat

Google for Mobile: How Google Makes Money from Mobile

http://quibb.com/links/how-google-makes-money-from-mobile-visualized/view

Currently, the majority of Google’s $8B run-rate mobile revenue derives from advertising (excluding Motorola)

Mobile Advertising: Google Ads For Mobile

Google’s key advertising products for mobile search include:

• Google AdWords – AdWords, Google’s online ad serving platform used by millions worldwide, offers powerful mobile targeting options and ROI reporting tools for mobile advertisers.
• Location and Call Extensions – These ad extensions help mobile advertisers reach local searchers and make it easy for them to convert. Everybody wins!
• Google Offers – Google’s answer to Groupon, Living Social et al, Google Offers are mobile discounts that can be redeemed online or at brick-and-mortar stores.
• Google AdMob – A mobile advertising platform specifically designed for mobile apps. Marketers can advertise their apps inside other existing apps.

Killer Mobile Apps: Google Apps For Mobile

Google’s portfolio of mobile app products include:

• Google Maps – The gold standard for mobile map/GPS apps. Google understands that location is key to providing a great search experience (1 in 4 Google searches are related to location).
• Google Now – A system of Siri-like voice commands and a card system that lets users customize the updates they want, when they want them. The dream of the perfect smartphone!
• Google+ Local – Mobile users can search for nearby restaurants and entertainment rated by Zagat.
• Google Play Books – Google’s version of Kindle, Google Play Books lets you read ebooks on a mobile device.
• Google Wallet – A method for online payments via Google’s secure cloud servers. Google Wallet isn’t supported everywhere, but it’s a step toward cashless and cardless transactions.
• Google Voice – Make cheap international calls, send free text messages, read voicemail transcripts and more.
• Google Search App – Makes Google search easy to navigate on your mobile device.
• Google Shopper – Helps mobile users find products to buy and make purchasing decisions.
• Google Goggles  - An image recognition app that allows users to take a photo of an object to find more information about it. In its early stages, but exciting technology for visual search.

Mobile Content: Google Content For Mobile

• Youtube – The world’s best video sharing website. Nothing else comes close! A full 40% of video views onYouTube now come from mobile devices, adding up to a billion views a day.
• Google Play – An app store for purchasing mobile apps, ebooks and music, this is Google’s answer to iTunes.

Mobile Devices: Google Devices For Mobile

• Android – Google’s Linux-based, open source operating system for mobile devices is the world’s most widely used smartphone platform.
• Motorola – The dream is to combine Motorola’s great hardware with awesome Android software, but so far this dream hasn’t been realized.
• Chrome for Mobile – Google’s Chrome browser for mobile makes the web easier to navigate from mobile devices.
• Google Glass – Google’s much-hyped augmented reality glasses are still in development, but early models are reminiscent of science fiction. Fascinating and scary stuff!

The Future Of Mobile

This infographic doesn’t even cover all the mobile products that Google has in development – just the most exciting and (so far) most profitable of its forays into the mobile space. Clearly, Google is positioned to be one of just a few major players in mobile as the revolution continues. As far as mobile advertising goes, Google has barely scratched the surface of what’s possible. You can expect them to make huge advances in the realm of mobile advertising – and billions and billions in mobile ad revenues in the coming years.

Tweetables: Google Mobile Products

• Mobile searches increase 200% Y/Y in 2012! http://goo.gl/Ko6tt via @WordStream ≫ Tweet This ≪
• Google Mobile's GPA is 3.47 http://goo.gl/Ko6tt via @WordStream ≫ Tweet This ≪
• 1 Billion views on YouTube come from mobile every day http://goo.gl/Ko6tt via @WordStream ≫ Tweet This ≪
• If Google is free, how are they making money from your phone? http://goo.gl/Ko6tt via @WordStream ≫ Tweet This ≪
• 1 in 4 searches are related to location http://goo.gl/Ko6tt via @WordStream ≫ Tweet This ≪
   

Courtesy of WordStream, bringing google mobile marketing to all businesses.

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Hulu: No. 2 on Videos Served Behind YouTube

http://www.multichannel.com/ott/hulu-no-2-videos-served-behind-youtube/142224

Hulu’s monthly unique visitors totaled 24.1 million Feb, 2013, who watched 709.9 million total videos, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Hulu served 1.44 billion ads in February 2013, representing 583 million minutes.
Google’s YouTube kept the No. 1 spot with a bullet in terms of reach and overall views, with 150.7 million unique visitors and 11.3 billion video clips served. And while Google delivered more ads -- 2.22 billion -- they amounted to 182 million minutes, less than one-third of Hulu’s total.
Hulu 2012: approximately $700 million revenue and more than 3 million paying customers for the $7.99-per-month Hulu Plus service, according to Kilar.
in February 2013, 178.0 million Internet users watched 33.0 billion videos, with 9.87 billion ads served (representing 3.77 billion minutes), according to comScore.
After Google and YouTube, the top 10 online video sites in terms of unique monthly viewers for February were: Facebook (61.2 million), Vevo (49.5 million), NDN (46.3 million), Yahoo! (43.6 million), Viacom (39.1 million), Microsoft (36.7 million), AOL (35.3 million), Turner (30.2 million) and Amazon.com (28.7 million).

Time Warner Ends Talks With Meredith and Will Spin Off Time Inc. Into Separate Company

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/fate-of-four-time-inc-magazines-are-an-issue-in-talks-with-meredith/

Time Inc., suffering from industrywide declines, has consistently lagged in Time Warner’s quarterly earnings. In the three months that ended Dec. 31, revenue at Time Inc. fell 7 percent to $967 million. In the same period, revenue at the company’s cable television channels, including TNT, TBS and HBO, grew 5 percent to $3.67 billion.

Report Says Stanford Is First University to Raise $1 Billion in a Single Year

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/education/stanfords-fund-raising-topped-1-billion-in-2012.html

After Stanford, $1 billion, the fund-raising sums drop: Harvard raised $650 million; Yale, $544 million; the University of Southern California, $492 million; and Columbia, $490 million.

New Jersey Allows Online Betting Tied to Its Casinos

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/nyregion/nj-legalizes-internet-betting-tied-to-its-casinos.html

New Jersey the third state in the nation to legalize Internet gambling which has the first casino began operating in Atlantic City in 1978. Delaware and Nevada have passed laws legalizing Internet betting, which also occurs offshore, untaxed and unregulated.

Big East Settles for Deal With ESPN

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/sports/ncaabasketball/big-east-settles-for-espn-deal.html

The Big East will get about $130 million over seven years.

cf. The Big 12’s 10 schools will reportedly receive slightly less than $20 million annually from agreements with Fox Sports and ESPN. The Pac-12, meanwhile, last year agreed to contracts with Fox Sports and ESPN that will reportedly pay its member schools $21 million per year. In the Southeastern Conference, its 12 members have been receiving approximately $17 million in TV revenue from the league. The SEC is expected to restructure its TV contracts with the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M. - http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/10/2054760/acc-espn-agree-on-36-billion-tv.html

Groupon Dismisses Chief After a Dismal Quarter

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/technology/groupon-dismisses-its-chief-andrew-mason.html?ref=technology&_r=0

In November, 2008, Mr. Mason and a few colleagues reformulated Groupon as a deals shop.
In two years, Mr. Mason was turning down a reported $6 billion offer from Google.
Groupon’s public offering, in late 2011, valued the company at $16.5 billion.
Groupon’s market value is now $2.97 billion as of February, 2013.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/10/2054760/acc-espn-agree-on-36-billion-tv.html#storylink=cpy

Google cleared to test self-driving car

http://www.ongo.com/v/4423060/369371/F3C9034E06BF31CF/google-cleared-to-test-self-driving-car

미국 네바다주가 인터넷 검색업체 구글에게 세계 최초로 무인자동차 면허를 발급.

'Impatient Nation': Attention Span Loss in U.S.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/impatient-nation-attention-span-loss-us-15829715

people are willing to wait 250 ms for an answer which is blink an eye according to Google.

Code lets Google bypass user privacy settings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIXtc2p8_aI&feature=youtu.be

Google has found a way to secretly get through the privacy barrier set by Apple's Safari browser, letting advertisers track information, reports John Blackstone.

Google. Feb 23, 2012

눈물나게 아름다운 그림...

구글 홈페이지에서 <메밀꽃 필 무렵>의 아름다움을 느껴 보세요

작성일: 2012년 2월 23일 목요일

메밀꽃, 봉평, 막국수...무엇이 떠오르시나요? 아마도 이효석 작가의 <메밀꽃 필 무렵>이 아닐까 합니다. 구글 홈페이지에도 메밀꽃이 한가득 폈습니다. 오늘 구글 두들은 작가 이효석 탄생 105주년을 기념해 그의 대표작 <메밀꽃 필 무렵>의 주인공 허생원과 동이가 메밀꽃밭을 함께 거니는 정경을 표현했는데요, 서정적이고 시적인 원작의 분위기가 아름답게 표현 되었습니다 :-)

이효석 작가는 1920년대의 대표적인 단편소설 작가로, 강원도 평창군 봉평면에서 태어났습니다. 1928년 <도시와 유령>을 발표하며 작품활동을 시작했고, 모더니즘 문학단체인 “구인회”에 참여하며 자연과의 교감을 유려한 문체로 표현한 작품들을 발효했습니다. <메밀꽃 필 무렵>역시 떠돌이들의 만남과 헤어짐, 그리움, 애수 등이 아름다운 자연과 어우러져 시적인 문체로 표현된 작품입니다. 한국 작가가 구글 두들에 등장한 것은 2011년 박완서작가 , 2010년 윤동주시인에 이어 이번이 세 번째입니다. 다시한번 이효석 작가의 탄생을 축하드립니다.

Infographic: Social Media Statistics For 2012

http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/social-media-statistics-stats-2012-infographic/

Google I/O 2011: Cloud Robotics

Ryan Hickman, Damon Kohler, Ken Conley, Brian Gerkey
Learn how developers can accelerate the pace of robotics research and development and make high functioning robots affordable and universally accessible.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxXBUp-4800