…and they are…

Google Bookmarks Lists
Google Friend Connect
Google Gears
Google Search Timeline
Google Wave
Knol
Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal

Sergey did.

Not tech. Google.

Despite the fact that Android devices are significantly outpacing iPhones, and ad impressions are higher than the iPhone, somehow the iPhone leads mobile search:

While Google continues to crow about Android market share, it’s got to be pretty embarrassing for them to testify under oath that iOS owns their mobile search traffic.

This week we’re finalizing our logo for our new online software. All people will never agree on anything, much less a logo. That’s just business. That’s just life.

However, I’m reminded of Google’s godawful first logo, and the changes since.

You can always change down the road.

Google’s first logo (1998 – May 30, 1999)

Google’s second logo (May 31, 1999 – May 5, 2010)

Google’s third logo (May 6, 2010 – Present)

Daxko was a partner at the CalSAE conference in Monterey, California. Nick (Daxko Connect’s product expert) and I spent Saturday morning driving around Silicon Valley on the hunt for some of our favorite dot-coms, Facebook and Google being the main interest.

Sweet Moses, it was perfect.

I’ve driven through Mountain View, Cupertino, Palo Alto, before, but that was long before the web fully took shape.

First, much looks just like any other town you’ve visited. Strip malls and office parks, all of which are unassuming until you see ‘Loopt’ or ‘LinkedIn’ on the side of the building.

Second, you drive past Facebook and never know you passed anything special. We did. Twice.

Third, you cannot drive past Google without knowing you passed anything special. There are signs of the Googleplex long before you reach the main building. ‘Google St’ for example is a not so subtle sign.

A great quote from the Google Nexus One press conference.

[thanks to Gizmodo for catching this slide]

I have 8 Google Wave invitations. Contact me if you’d like one. First come, first serve.

By now you’ve heard. Here’s the list.

For Birmingham residents, have no fear: Birmingham’s airport is so awesome, the city itself provides free wifi all year round.

Why are so many Googlers leaving the company? One reason…

Other companies try really hard to hire Googlers, so they offer them lots of money and great titles. Former VP of ad sales Tim Armstrong had a great, comfortable gig at Google. But then Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes asked him to become CEO of AOL, and offered up to $50 million in stock options. He had to jump at it.

Ever wonder why employees would ever leave Google? Here’s swiped internal discussions from former Googlers.

My new favorite local blog as of late (Vintage Seattle) pointed me to an interesting Google/LIFE Magazine feature now available:

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Great screen shots of things spotted on Google Earth.

Find out what people are searching at this very moment.

Even the almighty workplace at Google isn’t perfect.

One dude has left the 1,000-resumes-a-day office of Google Seattle to go back to Microsoft, and he’s telling everyone about it on his blog.

Google Maps has added ‘Street View’ to the Jackson, Mississippi metro area.

I’ve recieved this question all too any times since I left home 5 weeks ago, so I figured that it’s best that I show you using Google Maps.

The map below is an overhead view of the city of Seattle. The area zoned-off and highlighted in pink is a small portion of our neighborhood, Queen Anne, and also includes a portion of the adjacent neighboorhoods, Lower Queen Anne, Westlake, and South Lake Union.

Circled below you can see our relation to Key Arena (where the Sonics play), the Space Needle, the floating house of Tom Hanks in Sleepless In Seattle, the location of “Seattle Grace Hospital (which actually houses our favorite sports bar and is the home of KOMO 4 News) , and of course… Meredith’s house from Grey’s Anatomy, which is in our neighborhood and about a 3 minute drive from our house.

Although it’s hard to tell from this view, we sit at the top of Queen Anne Hill. The Space Needle is at the bottom of the hill.

Google finally launched a product it should have launched a while back: Google Transit

However, after testing it the product seems to still have a few flaws. For example, to get to church via bus I must first walk through someone’s backyard and down the steep part of the hill our house sits upon in order to catch the bus I need.

It’s nice to have if you’re visiting town where you have to/should take public transportation (ie-NYC, Boston, DC) or if you are lliving in a major metropolitan area and you’re gonna go all crazy and venture into unknown territory.

It’s a good product, but not a great one.