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Google's stockprice headed higher?

Google has had a good run in this recessed economy, with an ever increasing share price of over $550 per share. Analysts are predicting that Google is posed to keep rising, and this analyst believes that Google's stock price could hit $650 per share. Analysts are betting on an upcoming Google advertising strategy that will put new competition, such as the new Microsoft Bing search/advertising engine, in their place.

1.51%!!!! AHHH

OMG! InsideOut has a CTR of OVER 1%!  This is unbelievable! I guess we thanked all the right people over Thanksgiving.  Thank you lord for giving us a higher CTR!  I guess the Slam Poetry material we've been using has been working.  I hope we can keep this up.

New Datacenter Innovations by Google

Google has filed a patent for a new cooling technique for server racks. The new technology automatically adjusts to temperature changes to use the least amount of energy as possible. It is believed that this technology will be used to reduce the electricity bill for Google's web servers, as well as being more environmentally friendly.

Google Chrome for Mac

Google Chrome for MacOS is nearing the Beta stage. The Beta is due to be released before the end of the year, with the full version to come in 2010. Google Chrome for MacOS is an important release as it extends Google's popular web browser to all three popular desktop platforms (Windows, Linux, and MacOS). Google Chrome, on all platforms, uses the Webkit rendering engine. Webkit was developed in-part by Apple, Inc. for the Safari web browser.

Google Phone

The rumor mill is churning with news that Google will soon release a phone. Google already has the Android mobile platform, but Google currently licenses it to hardware vendors that implement the operating system in their own devices. It appears Google is not happy with the devices currently available and will soon take matters into their own hands.

Google Gears to HTML5

Google Gears is to be replaced with the HTML5 technology. Google Gears is a technology that allows web applications (like Gmail) to interact with your computer's operating system. HTML5 supports features that make Google Gears unnecessary. Google has decided to drop support for Gears and has decided to implement the future standard, HTML5, into it's own web applications.

HTML Color Codes

It can be very annoying to look for the color code of one of the web safe colors you can use in your web page. This webpage has a quick reference for all 216 web safe colors. If that is not enough, this hexadecimal color generator will give you more options (though they may technically not be web safe).

Hulu focuses on search

For those of you who don't know about Hulu. Hulu is a website that you can stream videos and and TV shows. As Hulu grows they have had to make their search better for the users. And thats what they are trying to do now with a more precise search bar.

Holiday Web Retail Sales

There is an expected 8% increase on web sales over last years holiday web sales. This far exceeds in store retail which will continue to struggle. This leads me to believe that internet shopping will eventually take away all opportunities that malls and traditional stores have to sell products. There isn't anything like seeing a product in person. But the web is making it easier every month to find out what a product is really like with sources like product reviews.

Ebay Glitch

Ebay apologized for a search result glitch that happened over a week ago. When searching an item that was available on Ebay users found that there were no search results for that item. Ebay said that they would compensate for lost profits.