Are you ready for Near Field Communication?

Google is hoping to bring the technology mainstream in their updated Nexus phone.

Google Zeitgeist 2010: Year in Review

It’s the most emotive tech demo you’ll see all week.

Then explore the Zeitgeist to see what everyone searched for this past year.

bing + facebook = search more social.

Watch This Space

Google has today launched its own digital campaign encouraging businesses and agencies to make better use of online display advertising. The campaign comes as part of Google’s longer term business develpoment strategy to move away from its core text-based search solution to embrace wider advertising opportunities.

As well as of course hoping to get firms using online display more often the advert includes a call to creativity and subtle mentions of features such as live widgets and interactive content which are moving display-based advertising away from traditional banner adverts into something altogether more relevant and engaging.

(Source: google.co.uk)

Introducing Google Instant

Introducing Google Realtime Search: Cutting through the social media chatter

GetGlue

If you’ve been interested in Facebook’s efforts to put a ‘Like’ button on just about every site on the internet (or perhaps even more so if you’ve been a little worried by those moves) then it’s worth checking out GetGlue.

They were encouraging users to like just about anything/everything long before Facebook tried it and have a Foursquare/Gowalla style badge collecting game built in. They seem to have used this to forge a wide range of partnerships and have a long list of high profile, exclusive badges on the site. GetGlue has a focus on books, movies and other entertainment and helps ou discover new things you’ll like based on your (and your friends’) recommendations.

I think Google is missing a bit of a trick with its Google toolbar sitting at the top of many a browsing session - they should be perfectly placed to be one of the early runners in the race to build the semantic web!