Apr 1st 2015
This Week in Google 294
Chrome Oh Yes
Hosted by
Jeff Jarvis,
Leo Laporte
Summary of April Fools Stuff
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis.
Google doing April fools right, Amazon Dash, Chromebit dongle that turns your TV into a Chrome OS computer, and more.
Guest: Mike Elgan, and Kevin Marks.
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Links
- Summary of April Fools Shtuff
- Amazon Dash
- Google Says 5% Of Visitors To Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
- Google launches $100 Chromebit dongle that turns your TV into a Chrome OS computer, shows off flipping Chromebook
- Google will finally improve Chrome scrolling using a Microsoft invention
- Matt Cutts, Director of Search, GlobeRunner
- Your photos and files, together in Drive
- Gmail for Android updated with unified inbox view, conversation view for non-Gmail accounts, smarter search
- Google Takes Its Web Game Ingress to TV
- Aussie Street View flasher charged by police
- "Using GIFs, Google critiques a Wall Street Journal report about its White House influence during an FTC probe "
- Time mag says Google tricks us into thinking we're smarter
- A First Look At Facebook's New Mothership, Designed By Frank Gehry
- Elon Musk created nearly $1B in value today with a single tweet
- Meerkat is dying – and it's taking U.S. tech journalism with it