Screenshots of Google Android

Google demonstrated its Android mobile phone software at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, and News.com has the screenshots.

1 comment May 28th, 2008

Briefs: Viacom, Murdoch, WaPo, Glam, Spike

    - Viacom says it’s not bidding for The Weather Channel
    - Murdoch “mystified” by Microsoft-Yahoo, says WSJ stories are over-edited
    - Washington Post debuts an apartment/Google map mashup widget
    - New Glam Media platform to allow publishers to share video for revenue
    - Spike.com debuts new player, expanded Spike TV content online

1 comment May 28th, 2008

‘Countdown’ gets new site on MSNBC.com

Sometime today, MSNBC.com relaunched the site for Countdown with Keith Olbermann. The site looks quite a bit like the template used for NBC Nightly News - but the remarkable thing here is how well the MSNBC folks have translated a TV program to the web. The video player is huge, and the video tray is organized like the show (5-4-3-2-1), plus trays for features like Oddball. Also, it is interesting that MSNBC isn’t afraid to have a wide array of sites with distinct looks (NBCSports.com, TodayShow.com, MSNBC.com and nightlynews.msnbc.com, etc.) look nothing alike - but share a common framework.

Updated with link to site, nixed NBCOlympics.com from list of sites

10 comments May 28th, 2008

Hidden codes, hidden mistakes

Washington Post writer Linton Weeks is leaving the paper - after taking a buyout. His final piece had a little code embedded in it: The first letter of each paragraph spelled out “Goodbye Readers.”

Then there’s this bit of geek-ness. TechCrunch notes that Google tried to be crafty - with shirts for its Google I/O conference today. The shirts had an array of dots on them - that translated into binary code for GOOGLEIO. ‘Cept… the code actually is GOOGLEKO. Oops.

2 comments May 28th, 2008