Superman Struggling with Google Plus
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Install Google Music on Ubuntu
Google Music has finally made its way onto Ubuntu. Here is how to install Google Music Frame on Ubuntu:
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:janousek.jiri/google-music-frame-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-music-frame
Free Google Plus Icon Set
I just came across an amazing Google Plus Icon Set that is available for free. The Google Plus Icons has 13 different social icons. Each icon of G+ from this set is available in different px size
Source PSD files are grouped and layered, so you can easily copy/paste icon design elements and create custom icons.
Download the Google Plus Icon Set here.
Google Buys Motorola Sketch: Steve Jobs as Darth Vader
Here is Next Media’s latest animation. This animation is all about the Google $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Love the addition of Steve Jobs!
Breaking: Google Acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion
It has been announced that Google has acquired Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share or $12.5 billion. This is Google’s largest acquisition with the aim to challenge Apple as a handset producer.
Larry Page CEO of Google had this to say of the acquisition:
“Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.”
Andy Rubin, Google’s senior vice president of mobile, said in a statement that the Android platform will remain open:
“Our vision for Android is unchanged, and Google remains firmly committed to Android as an open platform and a vibrant open source community. We will continue to work with all of our valued Android partners to develop and distribute innovative Android-powered devices.”
Im very surprised they didnt look at acquiring HTC.
Motorola is a great business and has over $3 billion in the bank. They also have 19,000 employees and produce set top boxes and phone accessories. It will be interesting to see how they can put both businesses together.
iPhone 5 and Google Nexus 3 To Be Available to Buy in September
There has been a lot of reports that the iPhone 5 and Google Nexus 3 will be launched at the same time at the end of September.
Most people already know a lot about the upcoming iPhone 5, but there is limited information about the Google Nexus 3.
The Google Nexus 3 isnt expected to be your average Android handset. The Nexus 3 will feature Android 4 software, which is expected to show off an all new user interface for the operating system. It will be very interesting to see if Google can actually ramp of sales of their own handsets, because up until now they have been unable to compete!
Listen to Your Music on the Google Music Player
Want to listen to the music you have on Google Music? Well Google Music now has their own desktop player.
The player is a web version of the music service inside an app, you need to first login to your Google Account and then access the Google Music.
For me it seems like Google Music is a complete waste of time. You can simply sign up to Spotify and use their amazing player for your locally hosted music. I know that your music with Google Music is hosted in the cloud, which is great, but its just a very basic service and its only as good as the devices I can get the service on.
Anyways, if you want use Google music then check out the Google Music player (not official version).
Google Make +1 Button Load Times a lot Faster
Google has announced that they have tripled the speed of their +1 button. The Google +1 button is their answer to the Facebook Like button. The aim of the +1 button is that readers can show which content they like across the web. With more +1′s improving the search ranking of that content.
“We’ve begun to roll out out a set of changes that will make the button render up to 3x faster on your site,” software engineer David Byttow said.
“No action is required on your part, so just sit back, relax, and watch as the button loads more quickly than before.”
This is great news, because the +1 button was loading very slowly compared to other social media buttons, so about time Google sorted it out!
Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON!
Here at Crenk you may have noticed a lot of changes in the past month or so. Crenk has gone back to the old theme we had on the site, so we can keep the quality of articles at a high. Crenk was previously allowing articles to be publish by anyone within the community. We have had a few issues with this model and we have had to put it on the back burned. We have also removed a huge amount of low quality content from the site with the aim of helping how Google ranks our site. However, Google seems to have not noticed the changes!
This morning we wrote an article about Wibiya being acquired by Conduit. The article has been quite popular and I wanted to just check how it was being ranked in Google.
As you can see from the above screenshot we seem to be ranking 4th with our original article. This would be quite good, but it seems as though the sites ranking above us are just scraping our content! Google why haven’t you sorted this out yet!!
Someone please explain to me why this is happening. Im not an SEO expert, but I understand Google aren’t providing good quality results.
Download the Google+ Chrome Theme for Free
If you havent received your Google+ invite yet, then here is the best thing we can offer, the Google+ Theme for Chrome.
Ok. Well it’s not as good as an invite, but it is the best we have found so far. The theme itself is actually not great! The Google+ theme for Chrome is an unofficial version and this is why it looks like it hasnt been finished completely.
Anyways, if you want to check out the theme for yourself, then you can head over to their the download page here.
