Archive for January, 2007
Sam & Max: The Mole, The Mob, and the Meatball
YES, the third episode of six forming the Sam & Max season 1 is already out for GameTap users in the US, while we still have to wait until 8th Feb to put our hands on the game. I am kind of liking it now, every installment comes with its own flavor. While Situation Comedy [...]
Microsoft paying for Wikipedia Spamming!
Rick Jelliffe, a technical CTO in an Australian company is writing in his blog about being contacted by Microsoft via email two days back to update an article on Wikipedia regarding the Office Open XML, to put it in favor of the Software giants who just can’t have enough monopoly. Being a leading person in [...]
Search YouTube videos from Google Video
Google have posted on their official blog about their future plans on how Google Video and YouTube will operate after the acquisition. Starting from today, you can search for your YouTube videos from Google Video, and it seems the intention on the long run is to turn Google Video into a global video search for [...]
Blogger Pros & Cons
I have recently transferred my blog from Blogger http://babdullah.blogspot.com to my own hosted WordPress, which is great. Now my experience with Blogger hasn’t been bad at all, and I won’t suggest to all to do the same thing. However, no matter what, a blog hosted by other party must have some limitations. From my short [...]
$600 million Data Center by Google
Google said last Friday that they are planning a huge server farm construction in North Carolina. The new data center will cost $600 million and will open up 210 jobs over four years. The state reported that the expected average salary is going to be over $48,300 compared to the $27,300 county’s average. Source from [...]
Google to enter in-Game ads arena
Two years back or less, Google was solely powered by its online Sponsored Ads. Recently, they seem to have removed the borders of their line of business and are getting into whatever they see a potential in. TV, radio, and newspaper ads have all been touched by Google. So what’s next? The internet online-gaming industry. [...]
Google Checkout vs PayPal
Last year, Google got into a new market which is the online payment with Google Checkout. Google is a well known famous brand that people tend to trust. But so far, Google hasn’t got into such sensitive area. End of 2006 Google ran a free checkout and $10 discounts campaigns which brought more customers to [...]