Itamar Kestenbaum

Earlier tonight, Google announced their opening up of the Google Apps Marketplace to the public. This way, developers can create integrations for Google Apps as well as new applications for businesses to use. The concept behind the marketplace is, of course, that the developers can then sell the services to companies at a fair price. And they definitely are! Many of the services are not cheap by any means.

Google are taking advantage of their huge user base once more to identify logos, landscapes, artwork, landmarks, and lots more! Why? Because they want to use the info to make their new Google Goggles into a working Search Engine that uses images instead of text! The application is available now on Android phones.

So MyBrandz just came out with a new test you can take that will measure which one of the two large brands - Google, or Facebook – is the more Social brand for you. It’s a cute idea – but it’s not being done in the most tactful way…

Yesterday, it was announced that Aardvark was being bought out by Google for $50 million. Today, both companies sent out their official blog posts and mass emailings, and immediately afterwards – TechCrunch broke the news that Aardvark was already live in Google Labs! And here it is:

Yesterday I wrote a long intricate rant against Google Buzz.  It’s not because I hate Google – it’s actually quite the opposite. I was mad at Google for Google Buzz because I love Google. And I think they can do so much better. Well – since most of the 9 million posts (in 2 days!) on Buzz have been complaints about it’s features, they caught on pretty fast and are doing a wicked-good job of cleaning up the mess they made!

GO Aardvark!

According to TechCrunch, Google has just bought Social Q&A site Aardvark for $50 million!

Dear Google,

Forget Orkut. Okay, don’t forget it – but Google wants you to. Orkut was Google’s crack at a social network a while back, and while it’s popular in Brazil, it never took off that much here.

Google has recently published a video that explains in plain English what their privacy principals are. Their principals are as follows: