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“What happens if Google chooses to come into your space with your own content?” I grew up at a time when companies were afraid of Microsoft because whenever they came up with a good idea, Redmond would copy it and potentially put them out of business. They weren’t always successful but having the world’s largest software company in your market was generally a recipe for reducing investor interest. And I would have to say that after a lack of marketing skill, no other force has slain more tech entrepreneurs than Microsoft.

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Google Far More Feared than Microsoft

Language is obviously crucial to describing and understanding the world around us but did you know the particular language you speak can influence how you see the world as compared to speakers of other languages? This weekend I had a chance to read a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal on the topic authored by Lera Boroditsky who is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology.

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Altering Language to Achieve Government Objectives

Posted by Kripa Krishnan, Technical Program Manager, Google Apps for Government (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) Today we’re excited to announce a new edition of Google Apps. Designed with guidance from customers like the federal government, the City of Los Angeles and the City of Orlando , Google Apps for Government includes the same great Google applications that people know and love, with specific measures to address the policy and security needs of the public sector. We’re also pleased to announce that Google Apps is the first suite of cloud computing applications to receive Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification and accreditation from the U.S

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Introducing Google Apps for Government

Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist Bending, walking, breathing, hearing, seeing and sleeping are simple things that are often taken for granted, as are thinking, learning, and communicating. Twenty years ago today, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law.

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Honoring the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act

David Murray ( @davemurr ) is just one example of the many voices and faces you can meet at #140ConfDetroit 10/20/10 – - – Tags: 140conf , social media , GM , David Murray , detroit , Jeff Keni Pulver

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David Murray – @davemurr – One of the Many Voice You Can Hear and Meet at #140ConfDetroit

GM / Buick is the Title sponsor of the #140ConfDetroit – 10/20/10, and I want to thank the amazing team headed by @cbarger for letting us bring this event to the Motor City. – - – Tags: 140conf , social media , GM , Buick , detroit , Jeff Keni Pulver

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#140Conf Detroit – Oct 20 2010 – Thank You GM / Buick for Your Support

In today’s interconnected world, long distance phone service is more important than ever before. People find themselves needing to call businesses, friends and family spread all over the country or world, and the related phone bills can be difficult to handle at the end of the month.

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Cheap Long Distance Phone Services

This afternoon we’ll be at our annual TMC picnic having some fun in the sun – well hopefully sun, the weather may be questionable. As you might imagine, we may be less responsive than our usual standard of immediate response. I’ll be checking email as I can later today and will hopefully post some photos and/or videos throughout the day

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Annual TMC Picnic 2010 Today

Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Public Policy Communications Google’s Marissa Mayer wrote in the Financial Times today about the impact for consumers of governments potentially regulating search results. Because the article is behind the FT ’s paywall, we thought we’d share the complete text here (also, check out search analyst Danny Sullivan’s take on this issue). Do not neutralise the web’s endless search By Marissa Mayer Published: July 14 2010 Think about the word “jaguar” – what comes to mind?

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Our op-ed: Regulating what is “best” in search?

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Convergence is an overused and misused term, but fortunately it’s back in vogue for all the right reasons at the Federal Communications Commission. Back in December, Google and others suggested that the FCC pave the way for the convergence of the Internet and the television screen in their National Broadband Plan.

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Convergence Brought Home

Levinsky College of Education is hosting Jeff Pulver for a guest lecture and open discussion about Twitter, real time Internet and social media in education. “Mr.

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Invitation to attend the Jeff Pulver Lecture / Discussion about the Real-Time Internet, Social Media + Education at Levinsky College of Education (Tel…

Posted by Yariv Adan, Product Manager A few months back we launched a feature in Gmail that notifies you when our servers automatically detect suspicious log in activity on your account. Since this has been effective in helping people identify improper access, we decided to extend it to all our Google Account users, not just Gmail.

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A Better Dashboard: Helping Detect Suspicious Log ins

Posted by Bob Boorstin, Director, Public Policy A year ago today, Neda Soltan was shot on the streets of Tehran amid protests over the disputed results of the Iranian elections. Officials locked foreign journalists out of the country and stalled all modes of communication, but an individual caught the final moments before her death on video. That video was posted to YouTube, and captured the hearts and minds of millions around the world

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Universal mediums and languages

Tonight, during the Larry King Live Telethon “Disaster in the Gulf: How You Can Help”, you can donate your voice to: The Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation and United Way. I’m happy to announce that JustCoz is working with The Nature Conservancy ( @nature_org ), National Widelife Federation ( @NWF ) and United Way ( live_united ) and is providing a platform for donors to donate their voice to these respective causes. For the first time ever in a telethon, viewers will have an option to donate their voice in the form of a tweet, to each of the participating organizations: – The Nature Conservancy – National Wildlife Federation – United Way : – - – Tags: JustCoz , social media , National Wildlife Federation , The Nature Conservancy , United+Way , twitter , CNN , Jeff Keni Pulver

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Donate your voice to: The Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation and United Way

Posted by Vikki Chou, Software Engineer (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) Today, I rarely work on documents in isolation. I share docs with teammates for feedback, help them with their design docs and presentations and regularly make my files available to all of Google

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Easier sharing in Google Docs

The online reverse phone directories have been made available to public since many years in the United States. It became compulsory for telephone companies to supply the records to public libraries as well as to the law enforcement agencies. With the rapid increase in the number of telephone subscribers, the need for reverse phone lookup directories was unavoidable.

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An Overview of History of Reverse Phone Directory

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel This morning the FCC asked for public comment on its proposed “ third way ,” a light-touch approach that would restore legal clarity after the recent Comcast decision . As we have said before, broadband infrastructure is too important to be left outside of any oversight.

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The FCC’s third way approach

Posted by Will DeVries, Policy Counsel It’s Internet Safety Month, and we’ve been on the lookout for creative ways to help users learn about best practices and responsible use of the Web. In addition to some tips from the YouTube team, we came across an interactive game from the Federal Trade Commission called Admongo where kids (and adults!) can learn about ads and commercial messages. Everyone knows that young people spend a lot of time on the Internet, but the numbers are still eye-opening: Over 93% of teens go online, and 63% access the Internet to email, connect with friends, upload and view content, play video games, and use many other online applications

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Using AdMongo to teach kids about the online marketplace

Posted by Jon Pincus, Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference co-chair Editor’s note: From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are pleased to have Jon Pincus join us here.

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Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference kicks off

Tomorrow morning I will be in Washington DC speaking at USA Today’s Media 2.0 day where I will be sharing an update on “The State of NOW” one year after the first #140conf event. For more details about USA Today’s Media 2.0 Day visit: ttp://content.usatoday.com/communities/socialmedia/post/2010/05/usa-today-at-digital-capital-week/1

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The State of NOW – Talk in Washington DC on June 15

On Thursday, June 17th, #140conf DC will be taking place during Digital Capital Week. At #140conf DC, I’m looking forward to hearing the following people who will be speaking at our event: Alex Howard (@digiphile) – Gov2.0 DC Correspondent, @OReillyMedia Amber Harris (@DiscoveryComm) – Manager, Digital Communications Andrea Spiegel (@andreaitis) – Chief Product Officer, trueslant.com Andrew Rosen (@WashWizards) – Website Managing Editor, Washington Wizards Andy Carvin (@acarvin) – Senior strategist at NPR Blair Levin – Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute; Former Executive Director of the National Broadband Planning Process Blake Hall (@troopswap) – co-founder TroopSwap Chris McGill (@ChrisMcGill) – Founder, Mixx David Johnson (@darthcheeta) – Asst. Professor, American University School of Communication David Klevan (@dklevan) – Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Deena Marshall (@la_pRHOfesora) – DC public school teacher Eric Weaver (@Weave) – Account Director/Strategist, Tribal DDB Frank Gruber (@FrankGruber) – Entrepreneur, co-founder Tech Cocktail Gayle Weiswasser (@gweiswasser) – Director, Digital Communications for Discovery Communications Geo Geller (@geogeller) – Artist, Photographer, Humanitarian George Haines (@oline73) – Technology Teacher, Sts

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Updated Speaker List for #140conf DC Announced

Posted by Mandy Albanese, Online Safety team (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) When I was in middle school, computer class was spent learning the basics of “keyboarding” and rushing to finish the lesson so I could get back to my journey on the Oregon Trail . My main goal was to survive the river crossings, maintain enough buffalo meat to sustain my family and arrive safely in California with my entire fake family still alive. Today, many schools are teaching their first graders the basic computer skills I was learning at 13

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Blazing the online safety trail

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel For some time now, we’ve been advocating for the formation of a group of technical experts to put forward their best thinking on how to manage broadband networks in ways that still preserve and promote an open Internet. We’ve worked closely with Verizon and others in the Internet sector to further develop the concept, and we’re excited by today’s announcement that the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group , or BITAG, has begun the process of formally launching. To be clear, the BITAG is still very much a work in progress, and we welcome the involvement of other interested entities, especially those representing the Internet user community.

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Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group poised for launch

Ginny Hunt, head of public sector programs (Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog ) It’s no secret that any successful 21st century political campaign must have a robust online strategy to succeed. But elected officials and candidates need more than just a website and a YouTube channel to engage voters: from President Obama’s YouTube interview to Senator Scott Brown’s campaign team’s use of Google Docs to Congressman Scott Murphy’s “ Google blast” ad strategy , we’re seeing politicians use more and more of our products and platforms to interact with voters, share information and keep their campaigns organized. We want to do our part to make sure candidates and campaigns have the tools to stay close to voters, who now expect to hear and see much more from their elected officials than ever before.

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Inform, engage and mobilize voters with YouTube and Google Campaign Toolkits

Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager When we launched Google Patent Search in 2006, we wanted to make it easier for people to understand the world of inventions, whether they were browsing for curious patents or researching serious engineering . Recently, we’ve also worked on a number of public data search features , as well as experimental features like the Public Data Explorer . There are many places to search for individual patents — the US Patent and Trademark Office and Google Patent Search are two examples

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Free download: 10 terabytes of patents and trademarks

Posted by John Burchett, Public Policy Director of US State and Local, Latin America and Canada The Florida laws governing political advertising were first written in 1951. Back then phones looked like this and the Internet hadn’t even been invented.

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Florida modernizes campaign laws to reflect new technology

During the past week I was fortunate to be have a chance to share my perspective on “The Connected Me” in a number of media platforms including: – USA Today: Twitter power: Learning from ourselves, in real time – CTV.ca (Montreal): May 26, 2010: Jeff Pulver on the Twitter revelation/revolution – CBC Montreal – Daybreak Show on May 26th at 0640 AM. (audio clip from interview currently not available) Interview I did with w/ Kim Vallée on May 26th at webcom Montreal 2010 : – - – font size=1> Tags: 140conf , social media , webcomMT , Jeff Keni Pulver

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Jeff Keni Pulver – In the Media (Week of May 24, 2010)

My friend Dave Halpert lost a friend yesterday and he shared his feelings about his loss in an email he shared earlier today. With Dave’s permission I have posted Dave’s tribute to his friend, Art Linkletter. – - – Art Linkletter Yesterday, Art Linkletter, a wonderful man and an acquaintance of mine, passed away 6 weeks shy of his 98th birthday

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Guest Blogger: David Halpert – My friend, Art Linkletter

Posted by Will DeVries, Policy Counsel We created Google Analytics to help website owners aggregate and analyze their traffic so they can improve and update their sites. Like traffic pattern reports tell you about traffic on a highway or street, Google Analytics provides general trends for a website (numbers of visitors, average time spent on one page) without revealing any personally identifiable information.

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Google Analytics: More choice for users

Posted by Murali Viswanathan, Product Manager (cross-posted from the On-line Security Blog ) Google understands the potential risks of browsing the web on an unsecured network, particularly when information is sent over the wire unencrypted — as it is for most major websites today. That’s why we offered SSL support for Gmail back when we launched the product in 2004.

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Extending SSL to Google search