Last night Facebook rolled out their highly anticipated new iPhone application and with it a whole slew of new features. Some of the new features includes:
Access to a complete newsfeed duplicating the functionality currently available on the site. This includes feed item commenting which makes this a mobile competitor to FriendFeed,
Access to all messages in [...]

This series of posts has described Google’s search quality efforts in areas such as ranking and search UI. Now I’ll describe search evaluation. Simply put, search evaluation is the process of measuring the quality of our search results and our users’ experience with search.
Let me introduce myself. I’m Scott Huffman, an engineering director responsible for [...]

Google, cable titan John Malone, and HSBC have backed a company called O3b Networks to bring high-speed Internet access to the 3 billion folks in emerging markets and Africa that won’t otherwise get it. The delivery vehicle? 16+ satellites.
But don’t launch into the what’s-with-Google-and-this-space-fetish-and-oh-my-God-what-CAPEX rant just yet. The company won’t be paying for the entire [...]

NeeTeeVee reports Google is going to be adding video sharing tools to Google Apps for businesses this coming Monday. Paid users of Google Apps will be allowed to upload videos with no time restrictions but a maximum size per upload of 300 MB, for a total of 3GB per account and unlimited video views.
The tool [...]