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I think I’m sold. Sorry iPhone - you had your chance but your pimp AT&T turned me away at the counter. Sorry! Now just waiting for the HTC Touch Pro to come to Sprint so I can drop AT&T :-) (No offense T-Mobile)

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T-Mobile G1 feature walkthrough

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It’s official - Google’s Android platform will be launching next week - with the first phone (HTC Dream) to be coming sometime in October. It will be interesting to see this go head to head against the iPhone. I’m guessing the first version will be less than stellar but a good step forward.

My AT&T contract expires in November. If Sprint can get an HTC Touch Pro ready on Android I am likely to switch. If not it’s off to iPhone land for me.

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According to the Inquirer Google is planning on buying Valve, the developers of popular PC games including Counterstrike. Obviously Google is not interested in owning the gaming side (I wouldn’t think) but are more interested in Steam - the content distribution platform it uses to distribute its games, updates, add-ons, etc. What exactly is Steam and why does Google want the technology?

Steam is a successful digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute and manage (sometimes exclusively) a wide range of games entirely over the internet, stretching from one-man independent efforts to some of the world’s most popular. Steam is set apart from its peers in terms of functionality primarily by its residency in the system tray, and the desktop tasks that the client software performs, which will be detailed in the article, to make use of that position. - via Wikipedia

Valve currently publishes over 440 games to 15 million active users via Steam. So yes, it scales. So why does Google want it? Android Market. The Android Market will be the distribution vehicle for applications and content to the Android mobile platform (like the AppStore for the iPhone) and Valve’s Steam will power it on the backend.

Google has unveiled details of the Android Market open content distribution system on the Android Developers Blog. This will help end users find, purchase, download and install various types of content on their Android-powered mobile devices. Developers will be able to offer their content on an open system hosted by Google. - via TelecomPaper

Now this is all speculation at this point and the purchase has yet to be announced. If I am wrong - I’ll let you know here. I have another guess waiting as to why Google would purchase Valve’s Steam - but all signals point to using its CDN (Content Distribution Network).

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If you aren’t one of us lucky ones that got in on the beta for Google Ad Manager - you are in luck now.

Today Google announced that it is opening up Google Ad Manager for all AdSense users.

If you are not familiar with Google Ad Manager - it’s an awesome tool to help you manage your online ad sales and inventory. I had been using OpenAds (now OpenX) to manage ads across multiple sites until this came a long. The beauty of Google Ad Manager is its integration with AdSense.

Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly-sold and network-based inventory

What about features?

Ad Manager offers a wealth of features to help you with:
* Inventory management
* Yield optimization
* Ad targeting
* Trafficking, ad delivery, and order booking
* Creatives and rich media management
* Reporting
* User interface navigation
* Account administration

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I was off the grid for the last few days and actually heard the news of Google’s entry in the browser market on BBC Radio via NPR… I know - old school.

Anyway - I don’t trust this thing at all. Why? Privacy. Skynet Google already knows far too much about me. The last thing they need to know is my browsing habits. Oh, and no Mac version.

Why so late in the browser game? Co-Founder Sergey Brin discusses why…

Man, Sergey really looks like he needs some sleep…

I’m also not happy about having ANOTHER browser to test my work in.

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