A Google Labs application takes quotes from Google News and puts them into a kind of head-to-head spin machine. Brilliant.

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It’s supposed to be Android Day today – the day Google officially launches the Android mobile phone operating system. Although widely tipped as a yawn by comparison to the iPhone near-hysteria, it is likely in the end to have far-reaching effects on the mobile landscape. Take a look at this post for some idea of the features which will start to pop up on a phone near you.

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An interesting blog post from a couple of Google engineers speculating on what the convergence of cloud computing and massive hardware and software improvements might mean for humanity.

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My friend Andrew Don spotted this nugget in a Times piece on the expected clamp-down on city excesses:

Savills estimates that £5.5 billion was invested in property last year by City bonus buyers alone.

More woes for the property market ahead!

According the European Interactive Advertising Association, online advertising will continue to grow through 2009 and 2010. The association’s Marketers’ Internet Ad Barometer found 81% of advertisers saying their budget would grow (by 16% next year and 17% in 2010).

US broadcaster CBS has created an iPhone app so that anyone can submit pictures automatically to its network and report on current news events in their area. The app also allows users to browse what others have been uploading.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports that Apple is on track for 1 billion iPhone app downloads by 2009. Not all those are paid for, but still – quite a figure.

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Bill Gates teams up with Jerry Seinfeld for a series of off-beat new ads. This is the second in the series.

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There’s a great post by Alison Gow detailing how much different the act of creating a news story is in a web 2.0 world (thanks to the Online Journalism Blog for the pointer). It’s a great checklist for journalists and their editors and shows just how much has been added by the recent slew of new online tools. As Alison says:

I had no idea when I started doing this how thin the ‘old’ opportunities for investigating stories would look compared to the tools at our disposal now; it’s quite stark really. It drives home just how important mastering these tools is for journalists as our industry continues to develop and change.

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