Il 2009 di Google
Piaccia o meno la sua politica e il suo modo di agire, Google è indubbiamente tra le aziende più produttive, se non la più produttiva, dell’intero panorama tecnologico.
Questo è il suo 2009, con il lancio dei suoi principali prodotti in ordine cronologico:
January
February
March
April
- Google Profiles show up at the bottom of search results
- Updated mobile Gmail and Google Calendar webapps for iPhone and Android launch
- Google Maps mashup tracks swine flu
- GV Mobile makes Google Voice the default for your iPhone (later, Apple pulled this app from the iTunes Store for reasons that are still unclear)
May
June
- Google Apps Sync syncs Microsoft Outlook with Gmail, Google Contacts, and Calendars (updates with push Gmail in September)
- Google Squared puts your search results into a spreadsheet
- Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, and Talk leave beta
July
- FeedDemon, NetNewsWire sync exclusively with Google Reader
- Google announces Chromium OS (but doesn’t release any code, doctored screenshots and fan-made versions start popping up)
- Apple rejects all Google Voice applications from the iTunes Store
- Gmail Tasks graduates from Google Labs (where it first appeared in December of 2008)
August
- Gmail makes importing mail and contacts from old email accounts easy
- PubSubHubbub gets baked into Google Reader
September
- Google Wave Preview opens to 100,000 users
- GrandCentral closes its doors, transitions entirely to Google Voice
- Google Sidewiki launches
October
- Google offers voicemail storage and transcriptions for your existing phone number (part of Google Voice)
- Google Maps Navigation adds turn-by-turn GPS to Android
- Google Voice gives existing users invitations to send to their friends
November
- Chrome OS announced, Chromium build demo’ed and source code released (here’s how you can try out a Chromium build yourself)
- Google Chrome adds bookmark sync
- Google releases Go, a new programming language
December
- Chrome browser hits Mac/Linux with extensions enabled (Chrome for Windows left beta in December of 2008)
- Google’s new real-Time search includes Twitter streams
- Google Public DNS launches
- Google “lets the sun set” on Gears, moving to HTML5
- Google Goggles for Android searches the web by photo
- Google Favorite Places puts a barcode on restaurants and shops you can scan with your mobile phone
[via Lifehacker]
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