Google has been awared the right to sell energy, that's pretty big of them aye?

Google Gets the Right to Buy and Sell Energy

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) just gave Google the clearance to buy and sell energy in bulk. While it's interesting to speculate if Google wants to sell energy to consumers, the company has already declared that it has no plans to sell energy to consumers or to speculate in energy markets. Instead, Google says that it wanted this authorization from FERC in order to manage its own energy supplies better.

Mike sorted me out with a google wave invite, thanks Mike, I kinda put that in the back of my mind some time ago, none the less a tool we need to investigate for business, all the new social media hype etc.

Google Chrome OS event

 Seems like a sneaky little preview of the OS we're up for next Google's very own.

Google Could Double Web Speeds With SPDY Protocol

Slowly but surely, we're getting an idea of what Google's Chrome OS will look like. We know that it will be Linux-based and that the primary interface will likely be the Chrome browser. Still, the search giant was not content to simply turn a Web browser into an operating system. Soon Google was launching a new programing language, called Go, that would allow programmers to build faster and more efficient applications. Then it announced Native Client, a feature built into Chrome (both the browser and the OS) that would allow software to be run inside the browser. Any program launched could be treated as just another tab in Chrome, and, when paired with the new Go programming language, could lead to dramatic speed increases for Web-based applications.

So Chrome OS, and the various enhancements Google is developing to milk every bit of potential from the Internet, are shaping up nicely. But there is still one major hurdle to overcome -- HTTP, or hyper text transfer protocol. HTTP is what browsers and and Web sites use to define how and when data is passed back and forth. The problem is that HTTP has existed, more or less in its current form, since 1996, a time when Web sites were primarily simple documents with static text and images.

Well, just as I thought i was getting the hang of javascript, I read this article, and Raphael seems to have a little more knowledge that I do. he has a really good go at Google's Developers :p

Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript

At the Edge of the Web conference in Perth last week I got to catch up with Dmitry Baranovskiy, the creator of the Raphaël and gRaphaël JavaScript libraries. Perhaps the most important thing these libraries do is make sophisticated vector graphics possible in Internet Explorer, where JavaScript performance is relatively poor. Dmitry, therefore, has little patience for poorly-written JavaScript like the code he found in Google’s just-released Closure Library.

Having delivered a talk on how to write your own JavaScript library (detailed notes) at the conference, Dmitry shared his thoughts on the new library over breakfast the next morning. “Just what the world needs—another sucky JavaScript library,” he said. When I asked him what made it ‘sucky’, he elaborated. “It’s a JavaScript library written by Java developers who clearly don’t get JavaScript.”

For the rest of the day, to anyone who would listen, Dmitry cited example after example of the terrible code he had found when he went digging through Closure. His biggest fear, he told me, was that people would switch from truly excellent JavaScript libraries like jQuery to Closure on the strength of the Google name.

Google adds bookmark sync to Chrome browser

Computerworld - Google upgraded the beta version of its Chrome browser yesterday, adding integrated bookmark synchronization and boasting of a 30% speed improvement over the current production edition.

Chrome 4.0.223.16, which runs only on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7, includes the ability to sync bookmarked sites across multiple computers, said Idan Avraham and Anton Muhin, a pair of Google software engineers who announced the beta on a company blog late on Monday.

According to this article on thestreet, google's about to launch a music portal to take on apple, now THIS should be interestingi

'Google Audio' Launch Imminent: Report

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (TheStreet) -- Google (GOOG Quote) is about to launch a music service, according to the TechCrunch Web site, a move that would intensify the search giant's burgeoning rivalry with Apple (AAPL Quote).

Citing multiple sources, TechCrunch says that the search giant has spent the last several weeks securing content from major record labels. One source said that the new service has been dubbed Google Audio. 

 

OK so I didnt even think there were this many servers in the world :p

Google Envisions 10 Million Servers

Google never says how many servers are running in its data centers. But a recent presentation by a Google engineer shows that the company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future.

Google’s Jeff Dean was one of the keynote speakers at an ACM workshop on large-scale computing systems, and discussed some of the technical details of the company’s mighty infrastructure, which is spread across dozens of data centers around the world.

 

Sony to Offer Google Chrome on New PCs

The market adoption of Google’s Chrome browser has received a significant boost from Sony. Following a deal arranged between the two technology giants, Sony will install Chrome as the default Windows web browser on a selection of laptops. The machines are likely to be offered in the US first with other territories coming soon after.

Chrome’s market share has increased to around 6% and is likely to overtake Safari and Opera to become the web’s third most popular browser (source: w3schools.com). Google has been heavily promoting the browser on web sites such as YouTube and we suspected they would instigate licensing deals with PC manufacturers. Sony is a popular brand and, although they are one of the smaller PC manufacturers, Google will certainly be pursuing deals with companies such as Dell and Hewlett Packard.

Looks like google has been hard at work with a new project called Wave, which by the sounds of things is going to be a nice little (or large depending on how you look at it) active collaboration platform which can be extended into your own web applications via their (what seems to be very powerfull) API

Google as normal are not stuffing around with this, they're suggesting a Wave protocol, man they're going bit innit, "Google Wave Federation Protocol Over XMPP"

Let see what comes of this, it might certainly be usefull, i'm going to have a more thorough read through the documentation so that I can see how mobile friendly it is :)