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Queen’s Freddie Mercury Gets Music Video Google Doodle
Google is paying tribute to Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury on his birthday with a special animated music video Doodle. Queen is best known for rock anthems such as “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Will Rock You,” and “We Are the Champions.”
Mercury’s tribute Doodle appears on every Google home page today except in the U.S. The reason: it’s “out of respect for Labor Day,” Google noted in a blog post. Google users in the U.S. will have to wait to see the logo until tomorrow, Sept. 6. Queen guitarist Brian May also shared his thoughts on Mercury in the same Google post, writing:
Freddie would have been 65 this year, and even though physically he is not here, his presence seems more potent than ever. Freddie made the last person at the back of the furthest stand in a stadium feel that he was connected. He gave people proof that a man could achieve his dreams—made them feel that through him they were overcoming their own shyness, and becoming the powerful figure of their ambitions. And he lived life to the full. He devoured life. He celebrated every minute. And, like a great comet, he left a luminous trail which will sparkle for many a generation to come.
From Search Engine Watch, by Frank Watson
Funnily enough, it’s accurate!
Google Plus aims to be newest social media player
Good take on the current status of Google+
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The Social Sharing War is Fully On by @parislemon #google+ #socialnetworks
Nice write on TechCrunch about the war that has been brewing between Google and Facebook and how Google + takes it to a new level.
“Google and Facebook are at war. This is old news. They both want to be the center of the Internet — but there can be only one center. For a while, it looked like things were quickly shiftingFacebook’s way after years of dominance by Google. Then Google+ appeared — already the most compelling social experience Google has ever offered. While it’s still far from clear what the actual impact of G+ will be on the Internet at large, it’s pretty clear already that it’s something Facebook is going to have to take seriously. And they are. Despite Mark Zuckerberg downplaying it, Facebook did just launch a video chat feature a week after Google did in G+. And last summer, Facebook rushed to get the new Groups done in time to beat Circles to the same punch. But where things are going to be really interesting is on the social sharing front. Facebook has long been in the lead here — and is proud of it. But after just a week, it sure seems like Google+ is seeing some impressive numbers as well (with only a fraction of Google users using it). And a small change Google quietly made yesterday shows just how seriously they’re taking this. As we noted a couple days ago, it is possible to track the referrals coming in to your site from G+, but it’s not straightforward. Yesterday, Google made it much more straightforward.
Goodbye Wallets! How Mobile Payments Are Becoming the New Credit Card
Money has evolved several times in human history: barter, coins, paper, plastic, and now, phones? It’s true —- commerce is the next major advancement in mobile technology. Through the use of ‘near field communications’ (NFC) chips, several companies are about to revolutionize the way we shop, replacing our wallets with our smartphones.
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Via Column Five for G+
Here is a funny take on how all the biggest tech companies are organized from designer Manu Cornet, via Foursquare product chief Alex Rainert. Rainert notes on Tumblr, “These are really great though I imagine there’s a bit more centralized gravitational pull at Facebook than this one suggests.”
