Friday, March 9, 2012

The Big G Play Aims to Battle Apple Inc. iTunes - and my other links of the day

It's the perfect time for another links roundup. I've dug up stuff on Google, Apple Inc. and YouTube.

Google
Google: also known as The Big G

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So, let's see who's been discussing Google? It was www.eweek.com with their post entitled Google Play Aims to Battle Apple iTunes.

What did they point out about Google? They said:
Googles systemic revision of its services continues, withthe introduction of Google Play
and went on to say
Starting today, Android Market, Google Music and the GoogleeBookstore will become part of Google Play, Jamie Rosenberg, Googles directorof digital content, wrote in a March6 posting on the search engine giants Official Blog. On mobile devices,the update from Android Market to Google Play Store will apparently take placeover the coming days, while videos, books, and music apps will be rebrandedGoogle Play Movies, Google Play Books and Google Play Music apps.


Next up we have a site that's been writing about Apple - Zuckerberg Takes a Bite Out of Apple.

They said:
If you take the word apple and slice it in half, you get the word app
... interesting ...
Yesterday, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, took a new liking to an app, called Friendsheet, that again will change the reflection of Facebook in your eyes. His liking came on the eve of Apples big announcement event,where they launched a third generation iPad and a new Apple TV product. Many of us have taken a liking to Pinterest. It s a neat bundle of ideas and inspirations in the form of pictures organized in a fashion that allows for quick visual browsing and additional filtering on the users end.The Friendsheet App takes your photos and displays them in the Pinterest fashion. As one user said, "Love it. A faster glance. Like the visual follow. Improvement to the slow feed and filters...nice."


YouTube
YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.

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To finish we have YouTube Announces Next Cause Winners from www.webpronews.com, focussing on YouTube. They had some interesting points to make, particularly
Last month, YouTube unveiled their newest program in their "Next Creator" family, YouTube Next Causes
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The goal is to " help organizations that are already changing the world better use online video to drive action" - basically a how-to course on how online video can really expand the reach of a organization

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