GoogleW just announced Music Beta at Google I/O 2011. It’s online music service which is an hybrid between SpotifyW and Amazon Cloud DriveW, to store and listen to your music collection. Video below.
Via Engadget
Updates from May, 2011
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Google goes music
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API for fonts: Google Font Directory
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GoogleW announced Google Font Directory (Beta). This font directory is is an API to use non-web fontsW on a website. It supports the most popular browsers like Chrome (browser)W. Internet ExplorerW, FirefoxW, Safari (browser)W and Opera (browser)W, besides iOS (Apple)W and, strangely, Android (OS)W. Another “potential’ downside is that it has to download the fonts to the client and caches it on the client’s computer , if this gains popularity that won’t be that big of a deal.
Let the designing commence!
How to use Google Font Directory by Revolute
Via Mashable
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App Inventor: Build your own Android App
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GoogleW has more tricks then Harry HoudiniW up their sleeves. Today they announced App Inventor, a drag and drop tool in which code n00bs can develop their own AndroidW apps. It is still in beta and while it sounds all great, it remains to been seen how powerful this tool will be in developing robust apps. Anyhow good effort Google! AppleW are you making notes?
Via Engadget
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YouTube Leanback
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Yez please!
Via 9to5mac
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Google Chrome Fastball; an interactive social game
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Balls away!
GoogleW surprises again with a nice interactive viral for their webbrowser ChromeW. In Google Chrome Fastball, you have to solve puzzles with the help of online products, like TwitterW Last FMW and Google SearchW. This is all built within a custom YouTubeW site. In between the puzzles there is a cool clip of an iron ball going around a parcours of obstacles.. Just check it out. I like the mechanics, but couldn’t do a proper test if Chrome would better/faster then other browsers, because of an overwhelming response, the site is now down. So if you get the chance, check it out!
Via Mashable
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Winnebago Man - The Movie
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Just watch
Via BoingBoing
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Google Chrome vs The Real World
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You know that we, here at Willekeurigheid, are not the biggest friends of GoogleW, but what the f#ck, that doesn’t stop us from enjoying their fantastic viral videoWs. This time Google ChromeW takes on the real world in a speed test. And if that isn’t enough for you there is also a making of. Enjoy!
Google Chrome Speed Tests
Making of Google Chrome Speed Tests
Via Engadget
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YouTube - Show & Tell: Viral 101
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YouTubeW (a.k.a. Google) is on a roll. They launched a website called “Show & Tell“, in which they show the possibilities of YouTube for (interactive) viral campaigns. You can find examples of interactive video’s, viral hits and branded channels. Really interesting stuff for inspiration and as research material!
They also made an example video called “The Story of YouTube Car” in which they show these possibilities.
BTW: Funny note, the video was uploaded on December the 15th 2009 and has at the moment 305 views. Viral anyone?
Via Social Times
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Google facts & figures
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Google goes social with Google Buzz
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Google today launched another product, called Google Buzz. This social layer within Gmail gives you the possibility to share status updates, photos and videos with your contacts or a private group. It can also aggregate feeds from services like FlickrW and TwitterW and filters them for you on relevance. I’m missing probably a lot more what you can do with Buzz. The only thing that’s on my mind is, that this data hunger from Google is getting out of control…
Google Buzz
Google Buzz Mobile
Via TechCrunch
