Entries Tagged as ‘Google’

March 10, 2010

Google: Power and ambition harming the brand?

Here’s a well put together video that aims to help people comprehend just how powerful Google is, and how incomprehensibly powerful they may become. Is it possible to command such power and retain the principle “don’t be evil”? Or on the other hand is it possible to command such power and have people believe the [...]

July 23, 2009

Mobile Phones let us change our plans – Geo-location could stop us planning altogether

Remember the days before mobiles (some of you actually won’t!)? Plans to meet friends were made days in advance, there was no changing plans at the last minute, you had to be where you said, when you said. In theory this sounds great, no last minute cancelling, no slack time keeping, however, it’s not much [...]

April 25, 2009

10 great things about the Internet made even better by mobile

The Internet, perhaps one of the most useful inventions of all time is going to get a whole lot more useful when we can access it any time anywhere thanks to our mobile devices. Here’s a list of some great things, that thanks to mobile can be made even better. 1. Social Networking Create an [...]

November 13, 2008

Who knows when you’re going to fall ill?

Google of course! They have developed Google Flu Trends which provides information on flu activity as well as providing a prediction on when it will rise based on information on flu related terms searched and several years of survey data from the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently the information is only for [...]

November 13, 2008

News Stories on Google Maps

You can already find most things on Google Maps, but now thanks to both ITN and Google and can also see live news based on location on Google Maps. I don’t see why this can’t be developed to show video clips, or potentially live footage of the area you are viewing. See the News Map