Yahoo’s new non-lame, totally awesome new CEO: Marissa Mayer, the 37-year-old Google veteran who long played that company’s public face, will take the helm of a company in need of a strong, smart CEO who knows what she’s doing. Yahoo has had notoriously bad luck with CEOs in recent years, recently losing Scott Thompson in a resume-padding scandal. Mayer takes over a company that’s a giant of the web, but one that’s notorious for starving its best products. (photo by Giorgio Montersino)
BlackBerrys were in fact considered in the survey but given very few respondents reported being a BlackBerry user, their numbers were not statistically relevant. Of those considering themselves smartphone owners, only 9 percent reported being BlackBerry users.Tucked away in this Obvious Survey is Obvious post over at POLITICO, which shows President Barack Obama has a commanding 49-31 percent lead over Mitt Romney among iPhone/Android users, is one of the saddest statistics about Research in Motion we’ve ever come across (via hypervocal)
This google map shows election results in Mexico, as they care counted by the country’s Federal Electoral Institute or IFE.
Google pisses off Robert Scoble, creating hilariously profane video: As you might have heard, Google+ pushed out a new events feature earlier this week, and did it in a way that made it easy to spam the heck out of people. The social network’s biggest fan, Robert Scoble, exploded in rage in a recent episode of The Gillmor Gang as his massive network of friends (1.8 million and counting) turned against him, pushing hundreds of events onto his Google Calendar listings. This is kind of amazing to watch. There are at least three “DEVELOPERS“-worthy quips in this one-minute clip. Our favorite: “They started pushing hundreds of $%&! on my calendar.” (NSFW for heavy, but awesome profanity)
Introducing the Nexus 7: Built in conjunction with highly-regarded hardware manufacturer ASUS, the 7-inch tablet will feature a front-facing camera, 1280x800 display, Nvidia Tegra3 processor, Android 4.1 — commonly known as Jelly Bean — and a price tag of $199. Jelly Bean also received a bit of attention, and a new demonstration, during the announcement event in San Francisco this morning. (Photo via CNET) source
So basically, Google and Lego made a kind of crappy version of Minecraft. Or an awesome online Lego builder, depending on how you look at it. “Build may look simple,” the company writes, “but this collaborative 3D building experience would not have been possible a couple of years ago. It shows how far browser technology has come and how the web is an amazing platform for creativity.” Check it out.
To lose a language is to lose a lot of cultural information. If we don’t preserve them, we’ll be left with much impoverished human heritage.Institute for Language Information and Technology Director Anthony Aristar • Speaking in supposrt of Google’s latest project, the Endangered Languages Project. ELP went live this week; it has “text, audio and video — such as people speaking or singing in the endangered languages - and bibliographic resources” of languages like Navajo and Koro. There are thousands of languages in danger of going extinct; this project aims to help preserve as many of them as possible. source (via • follow)
[Chairman Arthur] Sulzberger, working with the board and search firm Spencer Stuart, initially put together a list of fewer than a dozen candidates to lead the company, according to the people familiar with the matter.
Executives on the list who have been discussed included aspirational picks such as Google Inc.’s Eric Schmidt and Eileen Naughton, the people said. Schmidt’s digital-media credentials were attractive to Sulzberger, who wants an executive with significant online experience, according to the people.
Schmidt, 57, stepped down as CEO of Mountain View, California-based Google in April 2011, while remaining chairman of the company. Naughton, a top sales executive at the Web- search giant, was president of Time Warner Inc.’s magazine division before joining Google in 2006.
Sulzberger declined to comment on the CEO search, as did Google and Akamai. The Google candidates are unlikely to take the job, one of the people familiar with the situation said.
Schmidt may just be a pie-in-the-sky candidate for the Times, but as Josh Sternberg pointed out in a March article, media companies are starting to think like tech companies. If Schmidt, on an off chance, decided to move from Mountain View to NYC, it’d be the most blatant admission yet that this is the case. (Now, by the way, might be a good time to look back at the New York Magazine’s piece on the departure of Janet Robinson, the company’s last CEO.)
Google is making a ton of money from YouTube.What?! That’s right, patience pays when building platform businesses. If a media company had owned YouTube, it would’ve ditched it a long time ago, when it bled money. But kudos to Google for having the patience to realize the long-term business opportunity. (via corybe)
By taking detailed pictures of individuals in intimate locations such as around a pool, or in their backyard, or even through their windows, these programs have the potential to put private images on public display. We need to hit the pause button here and figure out what is happening and how we can best protect peoples’ privacy, without unduly impeding technological advancement.Sen. Charles Schumer • Arguing that Google and Apple’s separate, upcoming 3D aerial maps raise major privacy concerns. He even wrote an open letter to the companies on the matter, which features this all-caps scare message: “TECHNOLOGY STRONG ENOUGH TO SEE THROUGH WINDOWS AND EVEN CATCH SUN BATHERS IN BACK YARDS” Problem is, Schumer appears to be citing a Daily Mail report on the matter that suggested that “military grade” spy planes were used to get this data, despite the fact that appears to not be the case. Google, in fact, responded, suggesting Schumer misunderstood the technology. “We currently don’t blur aerial imagery because the resolution isn’t sharp enough for it to be a concern,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
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Why do I like Flipboard so much? Because it — for me — is the best way to read the social web. It lets me go through my thousands of people that I’ve followed, subscribed to, or circled in a much faster way.
Flipboard now lets us see Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Soundcloud and other social networks.
What Google+ just did is make Flipboard dramatically more important to me, but also made Flipboard the king maker.
This is HUGE.
Key phrase: ”dramatically more important to me.” That said, we were a fan of Flipboard’s Tumblr implementation, so perhaps maybe we’ll like G+ more as a result of this.
We have a ton of things we want to accomplish here and working for some conglomerate or having bean-counting investors breathing down our necks simply isn’t the way for us to achieve them.Taptaptap founder John Casasanta • In a statement released via the Camera+ developer’s blog, announcing that the popular camera replacement app had sold its 8 millionth copy. In a new profile on TheNextWeb, Casasanta revealed that his company has declined acquisition offers from some of the biggest names in tech, including Google, Twitter, Adobe, and Zynga. He says that, since Facebook acquired Instagram, the offers for his company have continued to grow both in size and frequency; however, the development studio simply values its independence too much to turn its direction over to the whim of investors. source (via • follow)
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