Googling Friday #18

Surprised? After last week you probably weren’t expecting another Googling Friday from me again, but as I stated in a follow up post, I just had a policy disagreement with them over H.264 and I am ready to move on.

Eric Schmidt stepping down as CEO

Course the biggest news is Eric Schmidt will be stepping down as the CEO of Google effective April 4, Google co-founder Larry Page will take over at that time. Schmidt will remain chairman of the board at Google however.

Google Docs supporting Video uploads

Google now supports up to 1GB in size videos to be uploaded via Google Docs. I checked and yes they even support H.264, you can find out which formats are supported here.

Eric Schmidt on the Mobile Revolution

Google CEO Eric Schmidt shared his thoughts on the Mobile Revolution and how LTE will change things from banking to putting inexpensive smart phones in the third world to lessen the digital divide. You can read it here.

Google Review: Google Places

Google has released an app for the iPhone called Google Places, it has been on Android for a while since that is their OS. What it does is determine your location via pinging nearby cell towers and then allows you to find nearby restaurants, coffee houses, bars, gas stations, ATM’s,etc. Upon my use of it I have found it is not precisely up to date, for example Joe Joe’s still has the old address in their app, but it does list reviews from both Yelp and Google for the place to select.






So it is a handy little app and will remind a lot of people of the Yelp app for the iPhone, but it draws on Google’s vast search and location network which is a plus. So go check it out!

Well, that is going to do it for this edition of Googling Friday. See you all next week for another installment...unless of course they make me mad (just kidding).