More Google Weblogs

Good piece from the NYTimes containing some example uses of internal blogging. Of particular interest this about is Google:

Google, the provider of Internet search services, has become a big user of blogs for communication among its employees and managers - a result of the company’s acquisition of Pyra Labs, the creator of the Blogger Web log service, earlier this year. On one internal blog, called Google Love Notes, the customer service staff posts thank-you notes from users. One is from a woman who nursed her sick dog back to health after researching the illness on Google; the posting includes a photograph of the healed dog frolicking in a stream. Another came from a woman who was able to find a long-lost love through Google - and who happily reports that she wound up agreeing to marry the man’s brother.

“It’s a good pick-me-up,” Jason Shellen, a Blogger manager at Google, said of Love Notes.

[/technology] posted at 22:29 #

Phones with software defined radio due Q4 2004

CNET have a piece on Chip designers Sandbridge, who appear to be close to releasing software defined radio chips.

The White Plains, N.Y.-based company will begin shipping the chips this year to handset makers, and the first “world phones” will appear by the end of 2004, according to Sandbridge spokesman Jeffrey Schwartz.

“That’s three to five years ahead of what people thought,” he said.

No joking.

via gizmodo

[/technology] posted at 13:21 #