Yes, after a long week of rumours it has been done. It wasn’t Microsoft. It wasn’t Yahoo. It was the big mighty G telling everybody that they are very serious about the Internet Video business.
Quoting the press release:
When the acquisition is complete, YouTube will retain its distinct brand identity, strengthening and complementing Google’s own fast-growing [...]
This is one of my favorite (very) short stories:
Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch [...]
Greg Stein announced today a new Google Service in his talk in OSCON: Google Code Project Hosting (they need a shorter name), a hosting service of collaborative development enviroments featuring:
Project workspaces with simple membership controls
Version control via Subversion
Issue tracking
Mailing lists at groups.google.com
Obviously this is direct competition to Sourceforge.
Now, Sourceforge has has been suffering some problems [...]
Google has finally announced their long anticipated “paypal killer”. The name: Google Checkout.
One cool feature of Google Checkout is that you can buy from stores with a single Google login – no more entering the same info each time you buy, and no more having to remember different usernames and passwords for each store. To [...]