On 25th of May, Apple passed Microsoft, for the first time, as the “world’s most valuable technology company” . Apple gained a stock-based valuation of $222.12 billion while Microsoft’s was $219.18 billion. The only American company valued higher was Exxon Mobil, with a market capitalization of $278.64 billion.
Web 3.0 (aka The Semantic Web) is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the meaning (semantics) of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to “understand” and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. It derives from World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s (Inventor of the World Wide Web) vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.
The embedded video below is a 15 minutes film by Kate Ray who is a Journalism/Psychology major at NYU and gives a general overview of the Semantic Web. It features interviews with Tim Berners-Lee, David Weinberger, Clay Shirky and more. A must-see video…
Paul Buchheit is the mastermind behind Google’s Gmail and AdSense, and founder of FriendFeed (now part of Facebook). As one of the earliest Google employees. Buchheit first uttered those three words “Don’t be evil” during a meeting convened to discuss how Google should communicate its corporate values… Then “Don’t be evil” took on a life of its own, spreading rapidly through the Googleplex, and ultimately it was included in the company’s 2004 initial public offering prospectus.
As a successful developer and an entreprenur, here are 5 startups tips from Paul Buchheit:
The Internet Internet traffic is increasing very rapidly, close to doubling each year since 1997. Jesse Thomas collected remarkable stats on the Internet in one video. As the social network sites and YouTube like media-sharing sites take much more time in our lives, People-Powered Internet grows up. Some of the amazing figures about people-powered Internet shared in the video:
Thanks Jesse Thomas for combining and animating these stats. You can watch the video below:
Google primarily provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers many tools and platforms including its more popular products.
There are more than a hundred Google services & products and some useful ones are little-known. We prepared a guide for Google’s services and products to show you how big giant Google is. If you want to add a Google service or product that doesn’t exist in this list, please feel free to comment.
We arranged Google’s services and products (only 130 of them!) into 10+1 categories:
