As part of Google efforts to go green, the giant took a big step by entering the energy business with the creation of a subsidiary called Google Energy. The request done to the federal energy regulatory commission includes buying and selling electricity on the wholesale market.
Net Applications has just published the Global browser market share figures for December 2009, unveiling several interesting surprises.
It seems that the use of social networking and collaborative applications for business purposes has skyrocketed in the last six month period. In the past six months, Twitter sessions established physically from companies has increased by 250% compared to those developed from a year ago.
If we could turn back the time ten years and browse trough the World Wide Web, probably we would be shocked by the organizational chaos, primitive design and the lack of functionalities from most of the sites. Internet was not always an organized place, linked, personalized and rich in Multimedia content. We have traveled a winding road to be where we are today : The Web 2.0
Is clear that the decade 2000-2010 made profound changes in all levels of our lifes. From the way we communicate, interact, socialize, entertain to new paradigms settled in many industries, I think is a good time to stop and think about the biggest losers during the last ten years.
During 2009, Social media exponential growth generated high interest from brands and organizations. Many companies decided to launch social channels as part of their go-to-market strategy. Even do there are some superb examples about brands that innovated and increased customer engagement by integrating social media into their marketing strategy, many other failed miserably when they tried to use it.
During 2009, traditional media industry has been battling hard against P2P services. Legal woes against P2P services like Pirate Bay, Mininova and isohunt gave the impression to some analysts that P2P was more or less over. Besides, a massive communicational campaign to “educate” users about downloading legal content, the rise of streaming content as the main internet source of traffic and legal actions against individuals put a question mark about the sustainability of this technology in the future.
Google has been working hard on giving a lift to Google Chrome platform. Even do still there is a long way to go, during the last two week some interesting developments put additional hope on Chrome’s future. For instance they launched a Beta version for Mac and Linux and also a extensions gallery from where you can upload and download a growing number of applications.
The current gallery is extremely simple, but you can get a good feeling on the top applications downloaded by users. And based on that ranking, I would like to share the top 10 extensions for Google Chrome.
What kind of things people has been googling during this year? Google just released their official list with the fastest rising searches for 2009.
Honestly, Google doesn’t provide a unique list , but several rankings that gives you a global and local perspective.
It really worth to go trough the different rankings, as Google search is the number one search engine and a good reflection on what is happening on Internet. The list gives you some interesting trends and also reflects the most important events during this 2009.
Check a short summary below
Google launched a new GPS navigation system for cars (launching Google Maps Navigation) that will work for any Android 2.0 enabled device and will include 3D views, voice navigation among other interesting features.
Right after Google announced this new service, shares from Garmin and TomTom literally crashed on stock markets. From a market point of view the message was clear: Google changed the game again by creating a better service and for free!
Shares price from Garmin went down 16.38% on Nasdaq index, meanwhile TomTom shares price plunged 20.8% on Amsterdam stock exchange. The picture above shows the dramatic situation. You can also follow their share on real time here.
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