Tag Archives: Google

Google’s Schmidt on Facebook, management failures and regret

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Stefano

Remember Google’s motto “don’t be evil”? Former CEO Eric Schmidt statements may push Big G’s trend towards sanctity a bit further. Remember Buzz, what about Orkut? (besides being popular in South America…) Google leadership and commitment in search market may … Continue reading →

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Google’s ChromeBook: the (very) next big thing?

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Stefano

Google announced ChromeBook: a sort of notebook (built by Samsung and Acer) that may fall in the $300 price line and that uses just one piece of software – Chrome. The ChromeBook strongly relies on Cloud services and is an … Continue reading →

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Martha Graham’s anniversary: a dancing Google Doodle

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Stefano

Martha Graham‘s 117th birth anniversary is celebrated today by a really nice Google Doodle: an animated dancing performance that strictly recalls the famous dancer and coreographer. Graham invented a new language of movement, and used it to reveal the passion, … Continue reading →

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Google by numbers (a great infographic)

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Stefano

Pingdom has been digging through Google’s SEC filings, news articles and Wikipedia to get plenty of interesting data to include in this massive infographics. Things I get crazy about 270,000 words per minute posted on the Blogger platform 97% the … Continue reading →

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First man in space 50th anniversary – and the new Google Doodle

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Stefano

April 12th 1961 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day, back in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, making a 108-minute … Continue reading →

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International Women’s Day, Google Doodle and “my name is Blonde, James Blonde”

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Stefano

While the world celebrates International Women’s Day on Mar 8, the search engine giant Google also continued its ‘doodle tradition’ by featuring a special doodle in its search engine home page in selected countries. On Tuesday, Mar 8, Google boasted … Continue reading →

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Today’s Google Doodle: artist Costantin Brancusi

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Stefano

Costantin Brancusi was born 135 years ago and Google celebrates the romanian-born sculptor with a pretty doodle. Each letter of the doodle is an actual Brancusi masterpiece! Prometheus makes the G letter, double Os are made by The Newborn and … Continue reading →

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Today’s Google Doodle dedicated to Edison

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Stefano

As usual, Google’s Doodle are something special: today it marks the 164th birthday of great inventor Thomas Alva Edison. The Edison Doodle showcases his major inventions like the electric bulb, the phonograph and the kinetoscope among others. The online search … Continue reading →

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Today’s Google Doodle: Jules Verne

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Stefano

Let’s call it “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Google Sea”! Today’s Google Doodle is dedicated to Jules Verne’s birthday (in 1828, by the way) and is truly amazing! I guess it’s a masterpiece of Javascript, AJax, CSS (and a bit … Continue reading →

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