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POPSGoogle Chrome Gets Extensions Article suggests Google is just starting to rev up the engine but I imagine they are going to go after Firefox with a lot of resources. I'd bet chrome will see some significant growth in 2010.
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POPSFriendfeed the Next Google?! Steve Rubel makes an interesting argument. For me the last paragraph in the story says it all...the founders know how to scale a product like this; they were all team members at Google and helped to launch such products as Google Maps, Adsense, GMail and Google Groups.
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POPSComScore Ranks Google No. 1 for First Time Good news for Google, but we have high expectations for big G. What i find intriguing is the fact that users spend more time with Yahoo!. These guys have been portrayed as that gang that couldn't shoot strait but damn, they must be doing something right. I still think the MS deal gets done to unlock the hidden value in Y!, especially now; they do not want Carl I. stirring the pot inside their kitchen...
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POPSGoogle buys Zingku mobile social networking service This sounds like a buy vs. build decision for Google. Unless i'm missing something Google's tech team working with mobile developers surely could have created this piece of technology; perhaps the development time would have been too long for their liking? Either that, or a patent issue? Regardless, not sure that Zingku's service could have made it as a stand alone community, but as a piece of the total mobile package to come, it makes a lot of sense for Google...and of course, for Zingku ;)