Talking about bad luck, have you been reading InsideGoogle lately? Indeed. Me neither. Nathan’s host is having an amateuristic period, probably because some job student’s taken over things while the staff is on vacation or something, I don’t know. Anyway, he’s missing tons of new Google things, and I’ll talk about at least two of them. Google RSS and the story of a GoogleMessenger.
Randy from R|Mail lists up the GoogleNews RSS Feeds on the KBCafe. [ Link ]
[Randy, also : Yeah.]
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Randy also points to a good thing to wonder about :
- Google: We invite you to make noncommercial use of Google’s RSS and Atom feeds on your website subject to these terms.
- http://www.google.com/ig makes commercial use of everybody’s RSS.
Next : Meetroduction and the rumors.
Mike from TechDirt delivered [a story] where he wondered if Google was buying another Instant Messaging/Social Networking App.
[...] “They’re rumored to be announcing the purchase of Meetroduction, a combined IM/social networking offering that tries to combine instant messaging with the ability to find someone who’s physically near you. There are a number of small companies who have been working on something similar (and they’re probably not happy right now). This isn’t a separate instant messaging product, but one that plugs into existing IM offerings which might make a lot of sense for Google,”
… and then a little (anonymous) bird flopped in my mailbox and whispered that the people over at Meetroduction have already dropped this rumor more than once and sent it out to many people. Quoting my source who repeatedly informed about the ‘realness’ of this message at Meetroduction but never got an anwser : ‘That either means that Google told Meetroduction to float the rumour or Meetroduction’s playing a dirty game to generate some sort of PR.‘ … because over at Meetroduction, everything remains silent…