Its hard to avoid Google. They are doing so much, most of it very well. The latest innovation to catch our eye:
Google will be releasing a new feature next week that will enable people to easily embed a Google Map into their Web site or blog, just like you can do with a YouTube video. No coding or programming required; just copying and pasting a snippet of HTML, a Google spokeswoman says. (from Elinor Mills on CNET)
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It has been fairly clear to the library community for a while now that the Google Book Search project is not going to deliver sufficient quality that ‘preservation’ is assured. There is now a rather detailed critique at First Monday, from Paul Duguid. His essay (noted via Peter Brantley) focuses on some editions of Sterne’s bizarre novel, Tristram Shandy, included in GBS in several editions. His conclusion:
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Every couple of months we have a site upgrade. The software that runs our service, the databases and the individual user accounts, is enhanced with a new version. We do this so that additional features can be added to the service, and usually there are some small but subtle changes to our interface. Today, our Technical Director told me that there had been a site upgrade and that with luck no changes at all would be apparent. Why have a … Keep Reading
Google aims to prune the number of services it offers, and has announced that it is closing the program that allowed you to rent or buy videos from its video store service. See Philipp Lenssen’s posting and the comments at Google Blogoscoped.
This is a surprising decision. Sure there will have been good reasons for it — maybe Holywood didnt like the model that Google was pushing, and so it was hard to fill the store. Or there may … Keep Reading
Google rightly gets a pile of credit for its rapid innovatory pace. But people tend not to focus on how well Amazon is doing in the innovation stakes. Their impressive S3 has been around for a while and is very good value in providing deep infrastructure for developers. But lots is happening at Amazon. Three typical developments caught our attention in the last week.
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