No news here, really, right?  Not unexpected due to the manufacturers that lined up to support Google’s free Mobile OS, but Android has come a long way since the G1.  At myYearbook, you’re sure to find flavors of the Nexus [S], Droid X, Droid, Droid 2, Galaxy S, and more recently the Motorola Xoom.  Not only are these essential for ensuring our mobile apps are running bug free across the various custom UI’s on top of Android, but they demonstrate how much growth Android has seen in the past 6 months.  

Thanks Bonnie!

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CNBC Original, Maria Bartiromo takes viewers Inside The Mind of Google for a rare look at the world’s most powerful technology company and its crown jewel, the Google Internet search engine. This is the fascinating story of how two grad students, in barely a decade, took a one-time research project and turned it into a global technology powerhouse…changing the way we interact with information, the Internet, and each other. See how Google came to dominate the search industry and turn it into a profit machine… and see where it’s taking its next step… and how the company plans to address arguably the biggest controversy in today’s digital age: privacy.

I really like how Google Living Stories is leveraging the ‘life’ of a news story by using the technology and visualizations that work best on the web and give us context.

It’s not just putting print online.

• One link for each story that doesn’t change, but aggregates sources
• Visual timeline gives you context, navigation
• It knows what you read the last time you visited
• It continually updates with new, related stories
• Weighted summaries
• Key Quotations, People,
• Subscribe to email updates
• All types of media: audio/video/images

Example: “The Politics of Global Warming”.

The project was developed by Google in collaboration The New York Times and The Washington Post.  Read more details over at the Google blog.