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Google just announced the launch of version 1.2 of its Hangouts API, which comes with a number of significant new features for developers who are building products on top of Google’s group video chat service. In addition, Google also just launched private messages in Hangouts as an experimental feature.
Via Morten Myrstad
Over the last year, Apple and Google have secretly begun working on projects that will become wearable computers. Their main goal: to sell more smartphones. (In Google’s case, more smartphones sold means more advertising viewed.) In Google’s secret Google X labs, researchers are working on peripherals that — when attached to your clothing or body — would communicate information back to an Android smartphone. People familiar with the work in the lab say Google has hired electronic engineers from Nokia Labs, Apple and engineering universities who specialize in tiny wearable computers.
Via Gary Hayes, ABroaderView
Google has launched its own news reading app...
One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it’s describing the speed at which something is growing, it’s simply amazing. This past weekend, thanks to Android users around the world, Android Market exceeded 10 billion app downloads—with a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month. We can’t wait to see where this accelerating growth takes us in 2012.
Via McGoog
Google is proving adept at building a social media platform plank by plank, Phil Simon writes. Where Apple and Amazon tend to add basic, standalone social features to their products, Google has created a rich, vertically integrated social ecosystem to which features can be added incrementally.
Via zackrizmanic
While recently at a friendly gathering of young hooligans, I found myself engaged in a lighthearted debate on how the advent of the internet is affecting the brains of the youth.
Via maxOz, ABroaderView
Following their other products, Google is officially rolling out the new Google Analytics, complete with a whole new look and some interesting new features.
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The popular Google Earth app is now updated to version 6.2. You can easily take a spin around the world without even standing up. So, what’s new, you ask?
Via Heath Sawyer
Google has added public alerts to Google Maps to keep the public informed during emergencies.
Via McGoog
Google+ is changing the web, even if you don't want it to. That's right. Now, more than ever, it's critical for your business to create and build its presence on the new social network.
Via rosiemedia
Learn How to Sync Local Documents With Google Docs in Real Time Using KumoSync.
Google+ may be less than a year old, but New York Times bestselling author Chris Brogan is ready to crown it a game changer. Here's why he thinks it's poised to revolutionize business and networking.
Tom Vander Ark is an edu-futurist par excellence. He's chair of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, author of the new Getting Smart: How Personal Digital Learning is Changing the World, and an investor in startup technology and entrepreneurship school General Assembly (see this month's Life in Beta) through his education-focused venture fund Learn Capital.
Via L. García Aretio, Paulo Simões
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