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Week of 11/21/11 – Tech News Roundup
It was a light news week because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
- Google releases the Google Search app for the iPad. Reviews were positive:
- Why Google’s Search App Is Its Best iOS App By Far (ReadWriteWeb)
- Google’s iPad App: Almost Chrome and Trouble for Apple (TIME TechLand)
- Google just used it’s Search app to sneak most of Chrome OS on to the iPad (The Next Web)
- The Facebook Phone: It’s finally real and it’s name is Buffy (All Things D)
- Ex-Googlers launch recommendation engine Stamped, with help from Google Ventures (VentureBeat)
- In some virtual worlds, the thrill is gone (BusinessWeek)
- Black Friday E-Commerce Spending Up 26 Percent To A Record $816M; Amazon Most Visited Retailer (TechCrunch)
- eBay buys Hunch (All Things D)
- Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986Â (brain pickings)
- Groupon Shares Plunge Below IPO Price 3 Weeks After Offering (BusinessWeek)
Here’s the video for the new Google Search iPad app:
Week of 11/14/11 – Tech News Roundup
Apple and Google made major music announcements this week. Apple finally rolled out iTunes Match and Google made Google Music available to everyone and opened up a Music Store. Amazon started shipping the Kindle Fire.
Google Music
- Google Music is open for business (The Official Google Blog)
- How To Properly Set Up Google Music (Lifehacker)
- Don’t be too disappointed by Google Music’s lackluster debut (TechCrunch)
- Google Music Q&A on Quora
The introductory video from Google:
 iTunes Match
- iTunes Match: Thousands of songs with a couple of hitches (NPR – All Songs Considered Blog)
- iTunes Match: What you need to know (Macworld)
- Secrets & Features of iTunes Match (iLounge)
- Check your music’s iCloud status (Macworld)
- How to use iTunes Match with very large libraries (> 25,000 songs) (MacRumors)
- iTunes Match Q&A on Quora
iDownloadBlog.com created this iTunes Match Ultimate Walkthrough.
Kindle Fire
Amazon shipped the Kindle Fire earlier this week. Kevin Tofel from GigaOm has a good write-up on the mixed reviews for this product.
Positive reviews:
- Kindle Fire review: Yes, it’s that good (MSNBC)
- Kindle Fire is no iPad killer but it’s a killer device (Any Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times)
- Amazon Kindle Fire Review (Engadget)
Negative reviews:
- Is this really the tablet everyone’s talking about? (WIRED)
- A human review of the Kindle Fire (Marco.org)
Other news this week
- Google’s Lab of Wildest Dreams (a.k.a. Google X)Â (New York Times)
- Google+ Pages can now be managed with 3rd party apps (Mashable)
- Netflix to resurrect Arrested Development in 2013 (The Next Web)
- Skype desktop app now makes Facebook video calls (CNET)
- Facebook employees go nuts as Zuckerberg tells them the IPO is coming (Business Insider)
- No one’s noticing Twitter’s ad experiment, which is a good thing (Atlantic Wire)
- Amazon KindlePhone for 2012? (All Things D)
- How Facebook is ruining sharing (Molly Wood/CNET) and Robert Scoble’s rebuttal: The Facebook Freaky Line
links for 2010-08-05 – A look back at Google Wave early reactions
- A look at back at the early reactions to Google Wave
links for 2009-08-03
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New podcast on Leo Laporte’s TWiT network featuring Jeff Jarvis (author of “What Would Google Do”) and Gina Trapani (Lifehacker, Better Gmail Firefox add-on, SmarterWare). They cover Google and cloud computing.