Steve Bryant

Wow, this is cool, and it’s going to finally get me to change over to Google Reader for good. The Google Reader team has just implemented a Reader “trends” page that tracks, as Steve Rubel says, personal attention metadata. Googler Matt Cutts shared his stats, as did Scoble. Seeing all those stats is cool, and […]

LeeAnn Prescott at Hitwise reports that traffic to Google Calendar recently surpassed MSN Calendar and is set to surpass Yahoo Calendar in the next few weeks or months. Google Calendar’s traffic has grown 333 percent since April 2006. But what’s most interesting about Prescott’s numbers is the fact that most MSN and Yahoo Calendar users […]

I didn’t have a chance yesterday to find the Intertainer v. Google, Apple and Napster lawsuit, but I ran across it this morning and thought you might be want to take a look at the original complaint. The news article about the lawsuit is here. Some of the salient points that may have been glossed […]

I don’t usually post about this stuff. But, since I’m just getting back into the swing of things in 2007, and since I just happened to be on the Google jobs page, I noticed that the deadline for the Anita Borg scholarship is January 15, 2007. According to Google, candidates must: be entering their senior […]

I’ve been out of the loop all this week and last, so please forgive me if this post reiterates what has been said around the Web in the last few days. I’m just trying to organize my thoughts about several events: Google places ads for its products beneath search results Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales will launch […]

Well it’s a happy new year, and I’ve got two reasons to thank Mr. Matt Cutts: The name check on his traffic stats roundup. Pointing me to this post on the technology and marketing law blog, which says Bradley v. Google has been terminated. I wrote a bit about Theresa Bradley’s lawsuit against Google last […]

The dangers of exposing too much data through Google are well-known, but the dangers of exposing yourself on YouTube may be much greater. Police in Canada are expected to announce today the arrest of a man who is suspected of stabbing another man at a hip-hop club in Toronto. To find the suspect, the police […]

Google will provide embedded Web search on Chungwha Telecom’s mobile phones starting January, Marketwatch reports. “This is the first step of cooperation and we will offer more services with Google in the future,” said Ho Chen Tan, chairman of Taiwan’s largest phone company by revenue and the dominant fixed-line and broadband Internet operator on the […]

The new beta of Blogger, which has been available to some users since August, has been released. The new version offers user-definable templates, multiple authors and tags. But you can’t log into the new service unless you have a Google account. Only a few current users will be invited to switch their accounts over initially. […]

Earlier today I was bemoaning how Web stats are unreliable, but here I am, blithely reporting Nielsen’s November search share numbers. Guess what? Not much new here. Google dropped from 49.6 to 49.5 percent of all searches. Yahoo, meanwhile, gained, going from 23.9 percent in October to 24.1 percent in November. MSN/Live dropped from 8.8 […]