{"id":1717,"date":"2011-11-28T23:47:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T07:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2011-11-29T00:06:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T08:06:49","slug":"week-of-112111-%e2%80%93-tech-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/week-of-112111-%e2%80%93-tech-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of 11\/21\/11 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Tech News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a light news week because of the Thanksgiving holiday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google releases the <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/google-search\/id284815942?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Google Search app for the iPad<\/a>. Reviews were positive:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/why_googles_search_app_is_its_best_ios_app_by_far.php\" target=\"_blank\">Why Google&#8217;s Search App Is Its Best iOS App By Far<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(ReadWriteWeb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2011\/11\/25\/googles-ipad-app-almost-chrome-and-trouble-for-apple\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s iPad App: Almost Chrome and Trouble for Apple<\/a> (TIME TechLand)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/google\/2011\/11\/22\/google-just-used-its-search-app-to-sneak-most-of-chrome-os-onto-the-ipad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google just used it&#8217;s Search app to sneak most of Chrome OS on to the iPad<\/a> (The Next Web)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20111121\/the-facebook-phone-its-finally-real-and-its-name-is-buffy\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Facebook Phone: It&#8217;s finally real and it&#8217;s name is Buffy<\/a> (All Things D)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/11\/21\/stamped-google-ventures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ex-Googlers launch recommendation engine Stamped, with help from Google Ventures<\/a> (VentureBeat)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/in-some-virtual-worlds-the-thrill-is-gone-11232011.html\" target=\"_blank\">In some virtual worlds, the thrill is gone<\/a> (BusinessWeek)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/11\/27\/black-friday-e-commerce-spending-up-26-percent-to-a-record-816m-amazon-most-visited-retailer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Friday E-Commerce Spending Up 26 Percent To A Record $816M; Amazon Most Visited Retailer<\/a> (TechCrunch)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20111121\/ebay-buys-hunch\/\" target=\"_blank\">eBay buys Hunch<\/a> (All Things D)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/24\/steve-jobs-and-next-pbs-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(brain pickings)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-11-25\/groupon-shares-plunge-below-ipo-price-3-weeks-after-offering.html\" target=\"_blank\">Groupon Shares Plunge Below IPO Price 3 Weeks After Offering<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(BusinessWeek)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Here&#8217;s the video for the new Google Search iPad app:<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/djw6AJqHFOU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Search App Is Its Best iOS App By Far\u00c2\u00a0(ReadWriteWeb) Google&#8217;s iPad App: Almost Chrome and Trouble for Apple (TIME TechLand) Google just used it&#8217;s Search app to sneak most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-weekly-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}