Google announced today it’s Google Media Server. It is a Windows app that finds photos, music, and video and makes it avaiable to any DLNA device (PS3, Xbox360, Media Center PC).
Too use it all you will need is Google Desktop and any UPnP device to share media and youtube videos to your tv connected device. You can get it here.
I will test this over the weekend and report back.
Have you ever looked for a more powerful application than notepad or wordpad but did not want to shell out the big dollars for MS Word of Office. Tired of your email being in one place and not where ever you are? Consider Google Apps. It has been out for a while, but it is time to mention it again. What does it include?
GMail - Email with 2 GB of storage per account, mail search tools and integrated chat. The power of google search to find that lost email. Have access to all of your past emails where ever you have Internet access.
Google Talk - Free text and voice calling around the world. Googles chat and voip app.
Google Calendar - Coordinate meetings and other events with sharable calendars.
Docs & Spreadsheets - Create, share and collaborate on documents in real-time.
Page Creator - Easily create and publish web pages using Googles web page creation tool.
All of this and much more. You will not be disappointed with the quality of Google Apps.
R.H. Donnelley (Quote) yesterday agreed to acquire Search and advertising directory Business.com for $345 million dollars.
Business.com was formed by Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton in 1999 when they purchased the domain for a, at that time, staggering amount of 7.5 million. Not a bad return over a few years.
R.H. Donnelley Chairman and CEO David C. Swanson said Business.com Inc.’s performance-based, pay-per-click ad platform will boost its Triple Play business-to-consumer marketing offerings, which help local business attract customers through print Yellow Pages, Internet Yellow Pages and search engine marketing/search engine optimization (SEM/SEO) tools.
In a report yesterday, Marketwatch reported that online advertising was up 26% from a year ago. This report gives a big boost to the search engines which are the biggest providers of advertising space.
Read More here.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets, in beta, was launched today and lets users create, manage and share text documents and spreadsheets online, allowing real-time online collaboration, reports CNET. The program uses several file formats for importing and exporting, as well as publishing documents and spreadsheets on a website or blog.
I have just had a brief chance to take a look at it, but wanted to spread the word on this new announcement. This is another knock in the Microsoft empire.