Secondo una ricerca della Pew Internet & American Life Project volta ad evidenziare il profilo socio-demografico dei navigatori internet USA per il 2005, il 63% degli uomini statunitensi ed il 66% delle donne con un'età compresa tra i 50 ed i 64 anni vanno regolarmente online.
Anche Google entra nel mondo dei telefonini raggiungendo un accordo con Motorola. I primi cellulari Motorola dotati di un tasto "Google" che permetterà di accedere ai contenuti stabiliti da Google per la clientela mobile.
La notizia potrebbe essere ufficializzata al Ces di Las Vegas dal co-fondatore di Google, Larry Page.
Il contratto avrà durata triennale, in un primo momento i servizi offerti da Google ai clienti mobili comprenderanno il servizio di posta elettronica (Gmail) e il servizio di ricerca.
I primi telefonini targati Motorola-Google dovrebbero essere commercializzati entro Aprile 2006. [via webisland]
Nella seconda metà del 2005 si è molto parlato sulla rete, da vari punti di vista, più o meno concordi, del corporate blogging. Anche io ne ho parlato qui e in quest'altro post.
Ovviamente non sono il solo in Italia. Anche su Imli e sul blog di Mauro Lupi che poi ne è un esempio. Se poi vi interessa molto l'argomento corporate blogs vi consiglio una ricerca.
Destinationcrm.com pubblica questa mappa. Voi in quale parte anatomica vi identificate?
Torno a parlare dei datacenter di Google per segnalarvi che agli indirizzi 66.249.93.104 e 64.233.179.104 è visibile Bigdaddy.
Di seguito il post di Matt Cutts al riguardo:
About a month ago I alluded to a data center called “Bigdaddy” that people could check out as a preview. We’re ready to collect feedback on the Bigdaddy data center now. Let’s start with some Q&A.
Q: Why are you giving this a name? Isn’t that normally the privilege of Brett Tabke and the moderators at
A: Brett and WMW normally name updates. But this is neither an update nor a data refresh; this is new infrastructure. It should be much more subtle/gentle than an update.
Q: Why is it called Bigdaddy?
A: That’s a good story. Bigdaddy got its name right here:
At Pubcon, there was an hour-long Q&A session one morning. After the session was over, a bunch of us skipped the next session of talks to talk more in the lunch room (that’s me in the blue shirt). I knew we had a test data center that would need feedback, so I asked for suggested names. One of the webmasters to my right (JeffM) suggested “Bigdaddy.”
Bigdaddy is his nickname because that’s what Jeff’s kids call him. So I said I’d use that the next time we needed a name for feedback.
Q: Why did you wait so long to ask for feedback?
A: There were a couple reasons. First, I knew that Bigdaddy wouldn’t go live before the holidays were over. Second, the team working on this data center wasn’t showing it 100% of the time; at night, they’d take it out of our data center rotation to tinker with it. That would have been a recipe for confusion. Now we’re past the holidays and the Bigdaddy data center is live 100% of the time. In fact, Bigdaddy is now visible at two data centers: 66.249.93.104 and 64.233.179.104.
Q: Do you expect this to become the default source of web results? How long will it take?
A: Yes, I do expect Bigdaddy to become the default source of web results. The length of the transition will depend on lots of different issues. Right now I’m guessing 1-2 months, but if I find out more specifics I’ll let you know.
Q: What’s new and different in Bigdaddy?
A: It has some new infrastructure, not just better algorithms or different data. Most of the changes are under the hood, enough so that an average user might not even notice any difference in this iteration.
Q: I noticed some ranking changes across all data centers. Was that Bigdaddy?
A: Probably not. There was a completely unrelated data refresh that went live at every data center on December 27th. Bigdaddy is only live at 66.249.93.104 and 64.233.179.104 right now.
Supposed to be celebrating: 90th Anniversary of the Copyright Act. Reason for rejection: Potential trademark infringement for using the © symbol.
Supposed to be celebrating: 20th Anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Reason for rejection: Severe complaints by the Pet Duck Association.
Supposed to be celebrating: The 65th Birthday of Googol, a 1 with 100 zeroes. Reason for rejection: Too geeky.
Supposed to be celebrating: This was one of two drafts to honor M.C. Escher. Reason for rejection: Too creepy.
Via Google Blogoscoped una carrellata di loghi Google mai finiti online...almeno fino ad oggi ;-)
Supposed to be celebrating: Children’s Day 2003. Reason for rejection: Too childish.
Supposed to be celebrating: 150 Years of Cigarettes.Reason for rejection: Too politically incorrect.
Supposed to be celebrating: 50th Anniversary of Product Placement.Reason for rejection: Starbucks didn’t pay enough.
Supposed to be celebrating: 5 Years of Google motto “Don’t be evil.”Reason for rejection: Too self-obsessed.
Supposed to be celebrating: 130th Birthday of Mondrian. Reason for rejection: Too abstract.
Il motore di ricerca Google quest'oggi rende omaggio ai natali di Louis Braille, inventore del noto alfabeto che da lui prende il nome.
