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earth2tech.com - 2/11/2009

How Google’s PowerMeter Will Affect the Smart Meter Industry

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Google, with its billions in annual revenue and its constant noise about open standards and free access to information, is hard to ignore when it crashes into an unsuspecting industry. As cell phone companies, publishers, advertisers and software makers have all seen over the years, when ...

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google-tmads.blogspot.com - 2/12/2009

Traditional Media: Let's Take it Offline: Google Exits Radio but Will Explore Online Streaming Audio

— google-tmads.blogspot.com — At Google we've never shied away from high-risk, high-reward projects. We believe that making big bets is... not only in the best interests of our users and partners, but also important for our long term success. In 2006, we launched Google Audio Ads and ... (more) Traditional Media: Let's Take it Offline: Google Exits ...

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asiajin.com - 2/9/2009

Google Japan Buys Dirty Pay-Per-Post Links

— asiajin.com — Google Japan seems desperate in chasing the Mighty Yahoo! (see here for example). They are now using... a tainted and controversial social media optimization method called pay-per-post, provided by CyberBuzz. Recently, Google Japan announced a top-page ... (more) Google Japan Buys Dirty Pay-Per-Post Links

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techcrunch.com - 2/11/2009

Google Book Settlement Site Is Up; Paying Authors $60 Per Scanned Book

— techcrunch.com — Last October, Google signed a $125 million settlement with the Author’s Guild to pay authors for copyrighted... works it has scanned and made available on the Web through its Google Book Search project. More than 7 million books have been ... (more) Google Book Settlement Site Is Up; Paying Authors $60 ...

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Feb 11: What to Read on the GigaOM Network [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... How Google’s PowerMeter will impact the smart meter business. (Earth2Tech) For independent film makers, the web doesn’t quite cut it. (NewTeeVee) The cold, hard truth about Apple’s App Store. (theAppleBlog) How to be more productive with GMail and new multiple inboxes. (WebWorkerDaily) ...

Lucid Aims for the Cheap and Easy of Commercial Energy Monitoring [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... Despite Google’s talk that energy data should be free and accessible to everyone, at this point it’s mostly owners of commercial and industrial buildings that have been investing in often expensive and complex energy monitoring systems. But startups like ...

Video: Google and GE’s Smart Grid Event [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... Google shook up the smart meter industry this month by announcing it is developing a web-based energy data tool called PowerMeter. Energy info should be free, easy to read and owned by you — the consumer — says Google. But let’s face it, Google is new at this, and needs to learn a lot and gain a lot of partners. Those goals were part of the genesis behind its ...

Competition Grows Fierce for Smart Grid Stimulus Funds [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... . And then there’s Google, which unveiled plans to develop a web-based energy data tool called PowerMeter earlier this month, shaking the smart grid industry with questions about whether the company will be a competitor or a partner. For the long run, we have to wonder who would own the relationship with customers in a Google smart grid world — but for now, the looming question is who’s getting the money? ...

Microsoft Reveals Its Energy Managent Tool: Hohm [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... While Google has been openly discussing its yet-to-be-released online energy management software PowerMeter since back in February, Microsoft has spent the last two years ...

Smart Meter Tech: Expect Slow Growth Over Next 2 Years [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... and even from the likes of Google, don’t expect the market for the technology to grow too quickly in the U.S. According to research and consulting firm ...

Should We Force Marriage Between Broadband and Power Cos? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... And that’s a shame, given how combining broadband and utility-provided smart meters could help consumers access web-based applications from Google’s PowerMeter to ...

Utility Energy Web Sites Could Be A Pain Point for Smart Grid Security [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... protocols,” which are communication methods that don’t encrypt data and “cross-site scripting,” which allows hacker to inject code into a site when it is viewed by other visitors. But given the sensitive and private nature of energy consumption and control data, the vulnerabilities could cause problems for utility companies, Flick pointed out. When it comes to the energy management tools built by the big web companies Google (PowerMeter) and Microsoft (Hohm), Flick said, vulnerabilities commonly found for ...

@Google This Morn: DOE Secretary Chu, for An Announcement [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... Chu plans to discuss the smart grid stimulus funds, which “would be matched by as much as $5 billion in private spending,” at a speech tomorrow in Florida. Google has developed its own energy software management tool, PowerMeter, and has been ...

Google to Move Into Clean Energy Project Investing [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... Execs at Google have been very vocal about how they want to speed up the pace of innovation in the greentech industry — they’ve developed their own energy tools, ...