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POPSGoogle Joins Twitter, Attracts 40K Followers Less than a week after Google signed up for a Twitter account, the company has attracted more than 40,000 followers. As CNET helpfully notes, that places Google somewhere between President Obama and Microsoft and Yahoo! on the popularity scale. The feed basically functions like a streamlined Google blog, covering new product announcements. But its first tweet, which spelled out "I'm feeling lucky" in binary, was undeniably unique.
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POPSGet On The Google "Internet Bus" There are library buses, dental buses, hair salon buses and now Internet buses--courtesy of Google India. Google's Internet-equipped bus has been touring rural India for several weeks, chatting up the wonders of the Web. Is this an effective approach to bridging the digital divide? If so, it would be easy to replicate.
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POPSGiant Android Touches Down At Google HQ As the world knows, the Google phone has landed, hitting stores today. Yesterday, a large, foam Android statue also landed--on Google's lawn. And, on Monday, a group of Android fans produced a rap tribute to the phone/mobile platform, complete with a (catchy?) female hook. Who else plans to join the cult of Android?
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POPSGoogle's Newest Frienemy: Verizon After sparring off and on over wireless spectrum last year, Google and Verizon Wireless are close to a deal that would make Google the default search engine on Verizon phones, says the WSJ. The match-up makes sense. Carriers are betting big on the mobile Web and placing a Google search bar on the screen of its phones should encourage people to log on from their phones. There's also some "enemy of my enemy" logic: Verizon rival AT&T already has a pact with Google rival Yahoo! More interesting is what other alliances could follow, such as Verizon support for Google's Android project.
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POPSGoogle's New D.C. Digs A revealing look at Google's ambitions. Currently home to about 20 Googlers, the new office could certainly house many more.
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POPSEric Schmidt's Conflict of Interest with Apple Google's lobbying efforts get the Ken Auletta treatment in this week's New Yorker. TechCrunch culls the most interesting detail -- that Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who sits on Apple's board, doesn't participate in Apple discussions on mobile phone strategy because of potential interference with Google's mobile ambitions. Is the move commendable? Or counterproductive?
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POPSGoogle and the UK Spectrum Auction Ofcom, the UK's FCC equivalent, speculates that Google may be interested in bidding in its 2009 wireless spectrum auction, possibly to become an international mobile operator. Google's not commenting on its carrier aspirations either here or abroad, but FYI -- it could bid for UK spectrum if it wanted.
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POPSGoogle now optimized for the iPhone? Has Google put special effort into making its mobile Web site look pretty on the iPhone? Check out the nice layout, which is not what I see on my Treo or BlackBerry.
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