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Video May Come To Google Talk

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:59:40 +0000

Google’s acquisition of Swedish-based Marratech, a video
conferencing software company, should lead into Google Talk
becoming more competitive with eBay’s Skype and other services.

Google Talk has been a relatively stripped down option for
online communication, especially when comparing it to messaging
products from Skype, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Now that the company
has celebrated its first quarter earnings by announcing
tremendous revenue growth (though profits were flat), they
promptly made Marratech a beneficiary of their good fortune.

The purchase is being couched in terms of helping out Google’s
internal workers videoconference from their desktops, wherever
that desktop may be so long as a Net connection is available.
Amit Agarwal noted how Marratech’s Java client works with
Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.

It could even be a competitor to WebEx, the web conferencing
company networking giant Cisco recently purchased. Marratech’s
capabilities include similar ones like hosting virtual meetings
and sharing desktops with other participants.

Google Base Tips from ToolBarn.comÂ’s Brian Mark and NeO1SEOÂ’s David Brown

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:56:51 +0000

Google Base has become a very interesting and popular topic, especially for retailers. Google Base is an online database in which any user has the ability to add almost any type of content. As of this year, Google Base is available to the public as a beta version. Users can simply describe their items online in order to assist people when they perform searches.

In an interview with Webpronews at the SES conference, ToolBarn.comÂ’s Brian Mark and NeO1SEOÂ’s David Brown spoke with us about Google Base. This online database is another opportunity to get listed in Google, which in turn, generates a lot of traffic.

Google Adds Library, Expands Edu Offerings

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:18:58 +0000

Google took another step toward the company’s stated goal of indexing the world’s information by adding the entire collection of public domain historical resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library to its Google Books Library Project.

Editor’s Note: Â Both of my parents are/were educators, so it’s really quite cool that Google does so much for the industry. Both parents are/were also history teachers, so when the company announced that the entire public domain document and book collection of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library would be added to the Google Books index, it was kind of exciting. Do you share in this excitment? Let us know at WebProWorld.

The company says that the UW-Madison/WHS historical document and book collection, at 7.2 million holdings, is one of the largest collections in the United States, ranked 11th in North America.

The university adds its resources to an impressive list of other project partners that includes the University of California, University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, the New York Public Library, Oxford University and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

“Wisconsin is in a position to take a leading role in making the primary documents of U. S. government history freely accessible on the Internet for anyone to find and use,” says UW-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell.For books protected by copyright, users just get basic background (such as the book’s title and the author’s name), at most a few lines of text related to their search, and information about where they can buy or borrow a book. If publishers or authors don’t want to have their books digitized, they will be excluded.

Google, run by a team steeped in academia, has been very proactive in promoting educational causes as part of its overall strategy.

The company also recently launched Google Apps for Education, introducing applications for communication, collaboration and search for educational institutions.

The applications will be previewed the Educause tradeshow in Dallas, Texas. The company also plans to release a set of beta APIs for organizations that want integrate directories, single-sign-on systems, and mail gateways with Google Apps for Education.

Arizona State University has already integrated the APIs into their system.

In this flurry of educational announcements, Google Enterprise also revealed that Blackboard will be the first Google Enterprise Professional partner to focus primarily on the education market.

Blackboard will focus on helping schools integrate Google enterprise search technology for schools, as well as integrating the Blackboard Learning System with Google Scholar.