WebLaunches New Media Launch Strategy

Google announced today that they are launching a special Winter Olympic Games “Photo Alubm”. View or Submit Olympic Winter Game’s Photos starting today.

To help make information about the Games accessible and useful, Google released a new website and tools for sport fans around the world. The tools include a new website, available in 40 languages and combining up-to-date information and rich visuals—from Street View imagery of the competition venues to medal counts and news.

Google launched their annual Doodle 4 Google competition for K-12 students. Students are encouraged to use their imagination and creativity to design their own Google Logo. This year’s theme is “If I could do anything I would….” The Doodle 4 Google competition is open to all students in U.S. schools from kindergarten to grade 12 (including homeschoolers).

Google and Global Voices today announced the details of the “Breaking Borders Award” to honor those around the world who are fighting for free expression online. The award, totaling $30,000, will honor and support outstanding web projects, initiated by individuals or groups, that demonstrate courage, energy and resourcefulness in using the Internet to promote [...]

The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country’s leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
News All in one place
Complete coverage of an on-going story is gathered together and prioritized [...]

Google’s Webmaster Blog just announced the launch a tool for you to use to test your sites’s speed. Here is their official announcement.
“We’ve just launched Site Performance, an experimental feature in Webmaster Tools that shows you information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster.
This is a small step in [...]

High-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, customizable large screen, access to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets and the best 3G mobile network in the country: DROID by Motorola is in stores NOW!
Verizon Wireless, the company with the nation’s largest wireless 3G broadband network, and Motorola, Inc., a pioneer in the mobile industry, [...]

Related Links is a tool to help webmasters increase page views on their sites.
Given a page on your site, Related Links can choose the most related pages from your site and show them in a gadget. You can embed this gadget in your page to help your users reach other pages easily.
Related Links also [...]

Every day we get millions of search queries about music. You want to know more about your favorite artists, find that new album or iconic song or figure out the name of that tune stuck in your head. In fact, according to Insights for Search, two of the top 10 queries in the U.S. are music-related. But often, if your answer is in a song, it can take a while to get there. We call this “time to result” — and we’re always looking for ways to reduce it.

Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own [...]

Google is beginning to roll out new gadgets leveraging Opensocial to all iGoogle users in the U.S. With the new social gadgets, users will be able to share content, play games and collaborate with friends right on their iGoogle page.

Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.