Act on Ideas

Projects and product enhancements at Google start as ideas and gather momentum through actions that influence and garner support. ...

... "Many products and product improvements at Google start with one person having an idea, sketching it out, showing a prototype to others, getting feedback, and soliciting support from others. " ...

Via Poyner: Google projects

Project 10 to the 100 Polls Open for Voting

What projects, if implemented, will have the greatest impact on helping the most people? Google's project idea generation process has been organized into themes and voting its being used to prioritize the projects. Vote now through October 8. ...

... "Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Your response was overwhelming. Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted more than 150,000 (or around 10^5.2) ideas, from general investment suggestions to specific implementation proposals. " ...

Via Google, Project 10 to the 100: Vote Here

Data Center Deep Dive with Google

... Video provides perspectives on the green data center using Google's experience and outside-in viewpoints from industry experts.

Google Data Center Efficiency

Tour Google's efficient container data center ...

Bootleggers

Google and 3M leverage the creative use of a portion of the workforce's time to dream up new products or improve upon existing ones. ...

... "3M's bootlegging rule allows research engineers to spend up to 15% of their time on projects of their choice. " ...

Via Computerworld: The 20% solution

Green Performance Monitoring

Google uses standard data center efficiency metric to monitor performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and track the impact of its actions. The trends are impressive and efficiency gains drop straight to their bottom line. ...

... "We achieve this result without the use of any exotic techniques the EPA report assumes are necessary to reach this level of efficiency. Individual facilities can return even lower PUE values, with at least one facility returning a TTM PUE of 1.15. Our lowest published quarterly average PUE of an individual facility is 1.12, meaning that all electrical losses and cooling overhead combined used just 12% of the IT load. We believe that each of these data centers ranks among the most efficient large data centers currently in operation today. " ...

Via Google : Green Data Center Trends

Open Door Innovation

Here's interesting approach to cross-fertilizing innovation practices by swapping employees. In this case, Google and Procter&Gamble, both powerhouses in their respective industries, look to learn from one another. ...

... "It’s another phase in open-door innovation that companies are embracing to gain an edge over their competitors in difficult times. Open door innovation is a term coined by Kyle Couch, Vice President Client Learning Experience at The Beacon Group. " ...

Via PRWeb: Employees Are Shown the Door

Mobile Innovation Opportunity

Insight into the mobile market ... Mobile software is not fully exploiting hardware capabilities. Usability could stand a boost as well. ...

... "Hardware on mobile phones has been outpacing the software capabilities, Miner declared ... " ...

Via PC World: Android Challenge

Google Web Browser Beta Tuesday

Google heats up the competitive kitchen with Microsoft as it is poised to launch its web browser beta starting tommorrow, Tuesday. The new web browser is billed as Google Chrome. ...

... "Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today's complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated sandbox, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers. " ...

Via Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser

eBusiness Satisfaction Improves on Google Surge

Here is a pulse check on customer satisfaction in the American economy. In the automotive industry, American businesses fail to demonstrate leadership. However, in technology, Apple and Google are the pacesetters. ...

... "Customer satisfaction with the e-business category of websites surges 6% to an all-time high of 79.3, largely on the remarkable improvement of Google. After slipping behind Yahoo! for the first time last year, Google surged an unparalleled 10% to leave all rivals in its wake. Google's score of 86 sets a new standard for e-businesses and creates a formidable nine-point gap between its nearest competitor, Yahoo!, which fell 3% to 77. " ...

Via American Customer Satisfaction Index: Apple, Google Surge in Customer Satisfaction, PDF

Google Search for iPhone

Google app makes mobile search a snap on the iPhone ...

Google Application Infrastructure Opening

Google starts preview release of its infrastructure for developers. ...

... "application-hosting tool that developers can use to build scalable web apps on top of Google's infrastructure. The goal is to make it easier for web developers to build and scale applications, instead of focusing on system administration and maintenance. " ...

Via Google: Your Apps on Google's Infrastructure

See video discussion of this application hosting capability ...

Software Innovation Time

Software engineer discusses Google's concept of twenty percent time. ...

Agile Scrum Concepts Discussed

Ken Schwaber, the original scrummaster, visits the Googleplex to discuss agile techniques. ...






The Agile Alliance

Global Perspective Google China

Google's research leader provides insights on developments in China for the company, where virtual teams and collaboration enable success. ...

Computing's Future is in the Cloud

Apple and Google. Devices and Clouds. An exciting look into the future of computing by Nick Carr, who sometimes thinks that IT doesn't matter, but always offers an interesting perspective. ...

... "At this very moment, in a building somewhere in Silicon Valley, I guarantee you that a team of engineers from Google and Apple are designing a set of devices that, hooked up as terminals to Google's supercomputer, will define how we use computers in the future. " ...

Via Nicholas Carr's Blog: Future of Computing

Google Project Manager Clip

Quick video insights from Google project manager ...

Morph Projects, Don't Kill Innovation

Insights on Google's innovation techniques, which includes advice on innovation projects. ...

... "Don't kill projects, morph them. Google doesn't waste ideas. Instead, they try to change and transform them into something the company finds useful. " ...

Via Self-Service & Kiosk Association: Google innovation

Web 2.0 3.0 Discussed

Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, compares and contrasts Web 2.0 and 3.0 ...

Google Hacks: Strategic Surveillance

Hans Kristensen demonstrates another use for Google Earth. ...

... "A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine. " ...

Via Strategic Security Blog: China Sub

Google Gears: Next-Gen Web 2.0

Google introduces Gears as an open source technology enable every web application to work better offline and offer a richer experience, not just Google applications. ...

... "This new browser extension is being made available in its early stages so that everyone can test its capabilities and limitations and help improve upon it. The long-term hope is that Google Gears can help the industry as a whole move toward a single standard for offline capabilities that all developers can use. Google Gears marks an important step in the evolution of web applications because it addresses a major user concern: availability of data and applications when there's no Internet connection available, or when a connection is slow or unreliable. As application developers and users alike want to do more on the web - whether it's email or CRM or photo editing - enhancements that make the browser environment itself more powerful are increasingly important. " ...

Via Google: Gears

Next Project Presentation: Google Tool On The Way

Google to build web-based presentation tool as part of its office productivity suite. ...

... "First of all, we want to welcome the team from Tonic Systems to Google. Tonic, which we've just acquired, is based in San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia. They have some great technology for presentation creation and document conversion, and it will be a great addition as we add presentation sharing and collaboration capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. " ...

Via Official Google Blog: We're expecting

Visualization and Analytics: Web 2.0

Check out Gapminder's visualization tool, now owned by Google. See link for time-delay view of country life expectancy and Per Capita income. Press play button to repeat visualization. ...

... "Gapminder's Trendalyzer software unveils the beauty of statistics by converting boring numbers into enjoyable interactive animations. We believe that Google's acquisition of Trendalyzer will speed up the achievement of this noble goal. " ...

Via Gapminder: Analysis Software