Steve Bryant

AdAge reports on how Google’s ad-tracking abilities and the emergence of HD radio may up the ante by making radio stations more accountable to advertisers.

Your employees use Google all day long anyay, so why not extend the familiar interface and capability to your entire enterprise. It’s not a question.This is one more feather in Google’s search dominance cap. (God, what an awful metaphor. I might as well have said “Google puts on gay search pants.”)Google is going to make […]

Yes, it’s true. They’re working with codeweavers. And while it’s not a full port (they’re using Wine), it raises quite a few eyebrows: Google and CodeWeavers Inc. are working together to bring Google’s popular Windows Picasa photo editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program […]

Mike Arrington points to Ajaxian (nice redesign) points to Valleywag points to an email from a source that says Google is working on a Web page editor called Trogdor.I’m willing to bet, and so is everybody else, that Google is making Gmail a robust platform to offer near-enterprise levels of service. Or, they’re developing Gmail […]

On the news Barron’s predicting a possible 50% drop in Google shares, here’s an interesting article in the WSJ that I don’t see many paying attention to online. The headline is as witty as it is accurate: New Key Word for Google: Interest. “Fourth-quarter net interest income was $70.2 million, more than a ninefold increase […]

By now you’ve heard the news that Google Desktop 3 beta is available for download. There are plenty of useful new features, most of which include enhanced interaction with other desktop users.The most interesting new feature is called “Share Across Computers,” and it allows you to make some of your documents available when you search […]

John Battelle made noise about this last night, and now the AP has the story: Google has hired Amazon search chief Udi Manber. Amazon’s A9 is replacing Manber with David Tennenhouse, who previously directed research at Intel and DARPA’s Information Technology Office.Barnaby Dorfman, A9’s vice-president in charge of business development, also recently left Amazon, but […]

Over on the Intermedia blog, I’ve got some conjecture about why Google’s merging Gmail and Gtalk. On the surface, it looks like Google is driving users to Gtalk by 1) embedding it in their very successful email client, and 2) not making Gtalk interoperable with other IM services (AOL, Yahoo and MSN).That’s a sound business […]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting (no pay wall) more details on Google’s online payment service, GBuy. “But PayPal must now contend with Google. The Mountain View, Calif., Web-search giant, which has terrified Silicon Valley with its ability to quickly create new consumer products and services, is developing a rival service called GBuy. For the […]