Immediately after I posted about the Meebo Bar I decided to check out Google’s Real Time Search to gauge other people’s opinion of this new product from Meebo.

And I saw this…

This should relay the power of real time search and the importance of maintaining content outposts…

Meanwhile, Google Reader has yet to show any results…

UPDATE: Google Reader caught up between 7-1o minutes later…

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A slide from our upcoming webinar “running your business online in 2010”

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When I read the announcement today my first thought was “cool” – that’s good for everybody.

My next thought was of privacy and the implications of Google knowing absolutely everything I do online  (as if they don’t already).

Here’s how this technology works… So DNS is what translates www.google.com into the IP address 74.125.45.100. It’s one of the underlying protocols that makes the internets work.

Why is that scary? If you bypass your ISP settings and setup Google Public DNS, Google becomes your gateway to the web.

This means every request you make to any website on the internet will pass through Google’s servers.

Are you ready for that? They’ll know when you go to Amazon.com or Facebook or Twitter. And since Google controls a vast market share of online advertising – you will start seeing advertising based on the websites you visit (p.s. you do already).

Here’s what Google says about the privacy of the Google Public DNS project…

We built Google Public DNS to make the web faster and to retain as little information about usage as we could, while still being able to detect and fix problems. Google Public DNS does not permanently store personally identifiable information.

What do you think about Google Public DNS? Better for the web as a whole? Or is this scary skynet stuff?

We’ll see….

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I downloaded Google Chrome OS from GDGT but had problems installing it per their instructions….

Here’s what I found through discussions on how to install Google Chrome OS on Windows with VMWare Player

1) Create a folder on your C drive called Virtual Machines

2) Download the Chromium image from Gdgt and extract the VMDK file to c:\Virtual Machines

3) Download and Install VMWare Player

4) In VMWare Player…
a. Select “Create a New Virtual Machine”
b. Select “I will install the operating system later” and click the Next button
c. Under Guest Operating System select Other and under Version select Other and click the Next button
d. Under Virtual Machine Name enter “Chrome OS” and under Location browse to the c:\Virtual Machines folder you created above and click the Next button. [Note: This will be the downloaded VMDK file and the newly created blank Virtual Machine in the same folder]
e. On the Specify Disk Capacity page leave defaults as they are and click the Next button.
f. On the Ready to Create Virtual Machine page click the Finish button.

5) Navigate to the c:\Virtual Machines folder in Windows Explorer.
a. Rename Chrome OS.vmdk to Chrome OS.vmdk.old
b. Rename chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vmdk to Chrome OS.vmdk

6) On the VMWare Player main screen select Chrome OS and click Play Virtual Machine [Note: This will show the OS logon screen]

7) In the bottom right hand corner of the VMWare Player window right click on the Network Adapter Icon and click Disconnect then select Settings.

8) On the Virtual Machine Settings window on the right hand side under Network connection select Bridged and then click the OK button.

9) In the bottom right hand corner of the VMWare Player window right click on the Network Adapter Icon and click Connect

10) On the OS logon screen enter your Google e-mail address as your username and your Google password as your password.

via gdgt discussion forum

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I have Google’s Chrome OS running on a virtual machine at home and I like it already. I’ll have a real review at a later time but for now here’s one of the best demos I’ve seen.

YouTube – Google Chrome OS Demo

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First, it’s all about the web. All apps are web apps. The entire experience takes place within the browser and there are no conventional desktop applications. This means users do not have to deal with installing, managing and updating programs.

Second, because all apps live within the browser, there are significant benefits to security. Unlike traditional operating systems, Chrome OS doesn’t trust the applications you run. Each app is contained within a security sandbox making it harder for malware and viruses to infect your computer. Furthermore, Chrome OS barely trusts itself. Every time you restart your computer the operating system verifies the integrity of its code. If your system has been compromised, it is designed to fix itself with a reboot. While no computer can be made completely secure, we’re going to make life much harder (and less profitable) for the bad guys. If you dig security, read the Chrome OS Security Overview or watch the video.

via Official Google Blog: Releasing the Chromium OS open source project

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I had some inside info that Rackspace would be announcing this and it’s significant for many reasons. First off this is all powered by JungleDisk – software Rackspace purchased that created automatic backups to cloud storage systems – including competitor’s Amazon S3.

Another reason this is big news is that it totally legitimizes cloud backup and storage for Small to Medium size businesses (SMB’s) which is something Amazon has yet to be able to do within its web services division.

So what does it do and how much does it cost?

• Store and share files between other employees and/or team members
• Synchronize folders across one or more computers
• Use Rackspace Team Sync to ensure that team members are always working with the most recent version of a file
• Set up automatic backups of your data to the Rackspace Cloud and easily restore that data in the event of a hardware failure
• Secure your data with built-in AES-256 encryption, using a key controlled by the user

At only $4 per user per month this is a great solution and alternative to tedious onsite backups and network sharing. We’re going to try it out at 48Web and let you know how it works but we think this is going to be a great tool to add to our internet business arsenal.

They are also introducing a server backup solution that seems like a win/win for IT people. As someone who used to manage a network of web servers I know backup is a pain in the ass to manage and monitor. This alleviates most of those issues by having it automagically pushed to the cloud.

Rackspace Server Backup enables you to automatically backup your Windows or Linux based server data to the cloud. Chances are, if you have a server in your closet, you also have backups running on that server already, most likely with a tape backup. Every few days or couple of weeks you have to go into the server closet and switch out the old tape for a new tape. Sound familiar? It can be a painful, manual process.

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Why pay $7/mo for Lifetime? Why pay for stuff you don’t want? In his recent FOWA session, Gary talks about the market desire for a la carte TV (aka pay for only what you watch) and how the cable industry is F’d. Gary says the equivalent of the cable company business is like going into McDonald’s and ordering a cheeseburger only to have the cashier say you’ll have to purchase the whole menu.

The question is – how will the model work and who will get us there the quickest? Boxee? Netflix? Amazon? Microsoft?

What do YOU think? Let us know in the comments!

via FOWA London

Gary Vaynerchuk delivered this passionate and powerful speech at FOWA London 09 (bit.ly/fowa-london-09) and it rocked the house.

If you need a bit of inspiration (and a slight kick in the ass) don’t miss this one.

By the way, Gary is writing a book that’s about to be released: CrushItBook.com

Warning: Strong language

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