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Lively, and Three Other Google Flops

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2008-11-20 13:32:26 by Stan Schroeder in Mashable!
Google was once invincible and unable to make a mistake. Well, although its share price is not what it used to be, one can argue theyre still invincible in most areas theyve dabbled in, but the mistakes and flops are now piling up Google Lively, a virtual world in which users can create their own environment and avatar and communicate with each...
 
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That Was Quick: Google Kills Virtual World 'Lively' (GOOG)

2008-11-19 23:40:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
 
Google (GOOG) is killing its virtual world, Lively , after less than five months, to focus more on its "core search, ads and apps business Smart move, given the rotting economy and pressure for Google to control costs and hit its numbers. One easy way to help both of those: Pull resources away from silly, unnecessary side projects Wonder what...
 
Tags: lively, google, life-killer lively, virtual, virtual world, users, lively users, google labs, apps business
 
 
 
 
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Mozilla Releases 2007 Financial Results, Proves Its an Arm of Google

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2008-11-20 16:01:20 by Bilal Hameed in Startup Meme
...Google was the biggest donor to the non-profit organization due to Mozillas agreement with Google. Apparently Mozilla racked in $66 million of its $75 million from Google, which amounts to 88% of its total revenues. The fact that revenues from Google are even bigger than they were in 2006, when they amounted to 85% and the fact that Google...
 
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Europeana EUs Google Books Competitor Gets Overwhelmed by Users

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2008-11-20 14:28:10 by Bilal Hameed in Startup Meme
...Google Book Search, that was to be launched today has got an overwhelming response from users all over Europe. Soon after its launch their web servers gave in as the site was stormed by more than 10 million hits in just an hour this is still the case, as I am unable to access the site Jill Cousins, Europeanas director thinks that its one step...
 
Tags: google, google book, law suit tentatively, million hits, users, europeana, user privacy, europes answer, europeanas director
 
 
 
 
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Google Lively Not Live Any More

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2008-11-20 13:55:11 by Bilal Hameed in Startup Meme
...Googles Venture into virtual worlds would be killed by the end of December, according to a Google blog post . The only reason that I could attribute to this move is the economic downturn which has forced even the Search Giant to cut down on expenses and weed out all the non performing products According to Google Blog D]espite all the virtual...
 
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Why Google Chrome Needs Add-Ons: Firefox Users Download 1 Billion (GOOG)

2008-11-20 07:00:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
 
Google's (GOOG) Chrome Web browser has settled down to around 0.7% market share, according to the latest stats from Net Applications . Sad What could boost that? One thing people have asked for since Google introduced Chrome this summer: An add-ons platform so developers could write nifty plugins, toolbars, extensions, etc Proof that's...
 
Tags: chrome, google chrome, google, add-ons, firefox users, billion firefox add-ons, chrome overseas, goog, chrome web browser
 
 
 
 
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That Was Quick: Google Shuts Lively Down

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2008-11-20 05:17:47 by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins in Mashable!
...Google announced today that the virtual chat and meeting tool is set to be shut down by the end of the year despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, weve decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year. It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we...
 
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Is Google A Content Company? Of Course It Is. So What Should Publishers Do?

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2008-07-28 11:02:00 by Jason Calacanis in Silicon Alley Insider
...Google's new content play, called Knol, "killing" Mahalo . Knol stands for "unit of Knowledge" and it's a very well-designed Wikipedia/Mahalo style content publishing play. It's very similar to the New York Times' forgotten About.com , Seth Godin's spam-filled Squidoo , the flawed-but-fascinating Wikipedia , and of course my new project...
 
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Google (GOOG) Strong Q3, Amazing Cash Flow

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2008-10-16 03:52:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Google is finally getting more disciplined about spending Perhaps most importantly, capital expenditures finally dropped sequentially, so free cash flow was very strong ($1.7 billion). That's almost a $7 billion free cash flow run-rate. With an enterprise value of about $100 billion, the stock is trading at only 15X cash flow. CEO Schmidt did...
 
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