Google Joins NORAD To Track Santa Claus

Since 1955, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has helped track Santa Claus’s movements on Christmas Eve. Now Google is joining in the search.

Google has developed a downloadable iGoogle gadget for Google Earth to help track Santa’s movements in conjunction with NORAD, according to Google. The tool, “an enhanced 3D Santa-tracking experience,” will be available at 4 p.m. EST on Christmas Eve at noradsanta.org, wrote Carrie Farrell on Google’s corporate blog. Read more

Try Escaping Google!

If you are a New Yorker, check out the Times Square/Grand Central Shuttle and try escaping Google.

To add to the fun, just today my buddy Stephanie Frasco,  introduced to Google Voice and Video Chat which is embedded into the Gmail application…I’m addicted!

That said, I read a fascinating article by David Carr in yesterday’s (Monday 11/24) NY Times entitled “Google Seduces with Utility”

Google Seduces With Utility
By DAVID CARR

Not long ago, someone invited me out to the Googleplex, the nickname for Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

The fact is, I already live there. And it’s starting to worry me. Read more

Google’s New Research Roundtable Series

While I might not always understand what goes on behind the iron curtain at Google, I am always impressed with their innovations, their spirit as well as their philosophy of open thinking…and the new Google Research Roundtable Series is no exception. Read more

Cloud Computing: What is it and what does it mean to you?

I owe alot to Shelly Palmer. Not only has he been a good friend, colleague, our first NY:MIEG speaker (ever!)  and advisor for many years but his MediaBytes has become a regular stop for information about everything media. In this mornings report Shelly talked about the notion of “Cloud Computing” and it got me to thinking…I sort of know what it is, have heard the term for the past few years but now it seems to be popping up everywhere. And now that the Grand High Exhalted Mystic Ruler of All Things Media is pontificating about it I decided its time to do a bit of reading myself…basically look for the simplest and most understandable definition of the term “Cloud Computing” Read more