Open federation for Google Talk

We've just announced for the Google Talk service. What does that mean, you might be wondering. No, it has nothing to do with Star Trek. "Open federation" is technical jargon for when people on different services can talk to each other. For example, email is a federated system. You might have a .edu address and I have a Gmail address, but you and I can still exchange email. The same for the phone: there's nothing that prevents Cingular users from talking to Sprint users.

Unfortunately, this is not the case with many IM and Internet voice calling services today. You can only talk to people on the particular service you have an account on (so you need an account on every service to talk to everybody, which is pretty cumbersome). With open federation, you get to choose your service provider and you can talk to people on any other federated service (and vice versa).

In addition to the Google Talk service, many other companies, universities, and corporations support open federation today. This means you can now talk to millions of users around the world all with a single account on the service provider of your choice.

We think this is pretty exciting -- though perhaps not as exciting as something and we hope it will bring us one step closer to making IM and Internet voice calling as ubiquitous as email.

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By Don Jeffrey and Adam Satariano

April 16 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., the most-popular Web search engine, agreed to sell advertising time for more than 675 U.S. radio stations run by Clear Channel Communications Inc.

The accord lets advertisers bid on Clear Channel radio spots through Google's online ad-sales system, according to a statement today from the two companies. Google will target companies that typically advertise on the Internet, not radio.

The agreement is Google's biggest since it bought DMarc Broadcasting Inc. in January 2006 to help crack the $18 billion radio ad market. With DMarc, Google got software that helps companies place and track radio ads. That technology will help Clear Channel, the largest U.S. radio broadcaster, tap a new group of advertisers.

``It's a good win for Google from the standpoint that Clear Channel is the big kahuna of the radio world,'' Martin Pyykkonen, an analyst with Global Crown Capital in San Francisco, said in an interview. ``It remains to be seen whether Google will be better than their other media buyers or just one more player in the offline world.''

He rates Google shares ``overweight'' and doesn't own any.

Good for Clear Channel

``It's certainly a positive for Clear Channel,'' David Bank, an RBC Capital Markets analyst in New York, said in an interview. ``There'll be some incremental revenue but we don't know how much.'' Bank rates Clear Channel ``outperform'' and doesn't own the shares.

Google will sell less than 5 percent of San Antonio-based Clear Channel's ads on U.S. stations, Clear Channel spokeswoman Michele Clarke said. Financial terms weren't disclosed.

Clear Channel plans to start making broadcast time available for the ads on almost all its U.S. radio stations, including in Los Angeles and New York, by the end of June.

Spots throughout the day will be sold through Google, Clarke said, including morning drive time, when audiences tend to be the largest. Each spot offered will be 30 seconds long.

Advertisers will be able to choose markets and stations by format type, though not specific stations, Clarke said.

XM, EchoStar

Shares of Mountain View, California-based Google rose $7.98, or 1.7 percent, to $474.27 at 4 p.m. in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading. They have gained 3 percent this year. Shares of Clear Channel rose 11 cents to $36.35 on the New York Stock Exchange and have risen 2.3 percent this year.

The agreement helps Google as it expands beyond the Internet to radio, television and newspapers. ``Clear Channel is taking a segment of their advertising and making it available to Google,'' company spokesman David Krane said by telephone from Las Vegas.

Google last year signed a deal with XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. to sell spots to Web search advertisers. It has also agreed to sell time for radio broadcaster Emmis Communications Corp.

``It's pretty small potatoes right now,'' Patrick Walsh, the Emmis chief financial officer, said today at an investor conference hosted by A.G. Edwards & Sons. Google accounts for less than 1 percent of sales, he said. ``We'll look very closely at what Clear Channel is doing.''

Earlier this month, Google said it would sell advertising on EchoStar Communications Corp.'s Dish satellite-TV service. Customers will bid for ad slots across EchoStar's 125 channels and can choose when and where their ads appear.

In November, Google said it would test sales of advertising space in 50 U.S. newspapers.

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Early history

Began as a research project in January 1996 , by a student at Larry was soon joined in his research project by a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student and close friend. Larry Page hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better results than existing techniques (existing search engines at the time essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a pageIt was originally nicknamed, "BackRub", because the system checked to estimate a site's importance A small search engine called was already exploring a similar strategy.

Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant Web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. Originally the search engine used the website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on They formally incorporated their company, Google Inc., on at a friend's garage in

The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of " which refers to 10¹⁰⁰ (the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros). Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb, " was added to the and the in meaning, "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.

In the company moved into offices at in home to several other noted technology startups. After quickly outgrowing two other sites, the company leased a complex of buildings in at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway from (SGI) in The company has remained at this location ever since, and the complex has since become known as the (a play on the word a 1 followed by a googol of zeros). In, Google bought the property from SGI for 319 million.

The Google search engine attracted a loyal following among the growing number of Internet users, who liked its simple design In Google began selling associated with search The ads were text-based to maintain an uncluttered page design and to maximize page loading speed Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bid and clickthroughs, with bidding starting at $.05 per click. This model of selling keyword advertising was pioneered by (later renamed Overture Services, before being acquired by and rebranded as). While many of its rivals failed in the new Internet marketplace, Google quietly rose in stature while generating revenue

A describing part of Google's ranking mechanism (was granted on The patent was officially assigned to Stanford University and lists Lawrence Page as the inventor.

Google's declared a phrase which they went so far as to include in their (aka "red herring" or "S-1") for their noting, "We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains."

The Google site often includes humorous features such as cartoon modifications of the to recognize special occasions and anniversaries. Known as "Google Doodles", most have been drawn by Google's international webmaster, Dennis Hwang. Not only may decorative drawings be attached to the logo, but the font design may also mimic a fictional or humorous language such as Star Trek and The logo is also notorious among web users for Day tie-ins and about the company.

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The future of web accessibility

Where are we now?

It's been seven years since the W3C released the first version of the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG 1.0). Since then, accessibility has slowly but surely turned up on the radar of web managers in most large organisations.

The benefits of accessibility are pretty well known too - a quick returns over 37 million results! Because of this, more and more large profile websites have offered better and better accessibility as the years have gone by. There's still a long way to go but the progress over the past few years is highly visible and indeed positive.

Web 2.0

refers to the ‘next generation’ of websites and online applications. Websites using Web 2.0 technologies have started to spring up all over the Internet, and are likely to exponentially increase in number over the next few years. Although the term itself, Web 2.0, has become a bit of a buzzword, there's no doubt that Web 2.0 is here and is becoming more and more commonplace.

Two characteristics of Web 2.0 include AJAX and user generated content. Many websites are beginning to embrace these two concepts, causing never-before seen accessibility issues...

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