To celebrate the 183rd birthday of science fiction writer Jules Verne, the online world large currently launched a first-of-its-kind interactive Google doodle themed soon after the French writer's famed novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."
On its homepage, it displays a Google logo resembling a collection of submarine portholes wanting out onto an underwater landscape. However the enjoyable genuinely begins after you click on on the lever on the appropriate of your nautical-looking logo.
As you "pull" the lever down, the doodle normally requires you on the virtual voyage on the bottom of the ocean, providing you with glimpses of starfish, octopi, coral and also a handful of other deep sea dazzlers.
When you click on to the logo it requires you to (shock!) a Google search results web page for Jules Verne.
Some sci-fi fans call Verne the "father of science fiction," though other individuals argue the title belongs to H.G. Wells. Amongst his contributions for the genre are "Journey for the Middle in the World" and "Around the world in eighty Days."
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Beneath the Sea" recounts the underwater journey of Captain Nemo and his submarine, The Nautilus.
Initial Google Doodle Posted in 1998
Google posted its first doodle in 1998 and unveiled its very first animated doodle in 2010 to celebrate the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton (it confirmed an apple falling from a tree). As time passes, its doodles have become far more and more sophisticated.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary with the popular arcade game Pac-Man very last 12 months, Google launched a logo that doubled as a game Web customers could play straight from Google's homepage.
Other common Google doodles have acknowledged author H.G. Wells, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and also the changing seasons.
2011年1月29日星期六
Facebook Valuation Tops Amazon.com, Trailing Only Google on Web
Facebook Inc.'s valuation topped Amazon.com Inc., leaving the social-networking provider behind only Google Inc. between U.S. Internet providers.
Facebook is valued at $82.9 billion on secondary exchange SharesPost Inc. and has jumped by more than 40 % due to the fact mid-December. Amazon shares dropped 7.two % yesterday after a disappointing sales forecast, pushing its stock industry value down to $77.2 billion.
Investor need for Facebook is soaring to the personal markets as advertisers spend for your focus of a user base that is ballooned to over 500 million. Ad investing on Facebook will more than double to $4.05 billion this 12 months, according to researcher EMarketer Inc. LinkedIn Corp., the main networking web page for experts, said Jan. 27 that it ideas to increase $175 million in an original share sale.
The gains reflect the increasing popularity of social media organizations, which allow users interact and carry out other tasks that have been long unavailable, or only doable to a minimal degree, on older Net sites.
Facebook's approximated really worth surpassed that of EBay Inc., owner on the biggest e-commerce industry, late previous 12 months. It's nonetheless dwarfed by Google, the world's most significant World-wide-web search engine, that is worth $192 billion.
SharesPost, a market for private business shares, bases appeal on these criteria as transactions, investigation estimates and venture-funding rounds. Facebook shares have offered for as much as $60 apiece on SharesPost this month, which means some investors value the social-networking company at $136 billion.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. led a $1.5 billion financing round in Palo Alto, California-based Facebook at a $50 billion valuation earlier this month.
Outstripping Zynga
Facebook plans to start out reporting fiscal success by April 2012 even though it has not held an original public presenting, in accordance to a document sent to prospective traders. The firm can be compelled to produce disclosures since it expects to have a minimum of 500 shareholders through the stop of this 12 months, a threshold that tends to make reporting results required underneath U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission guidelines, someone who reviewed the document mentioned before this month.
At $82.9 billion, Facebook's value has jumped over sevenfold considering that March, when SharesPost released its Venture- Backed Index, featuring seven companies. Facebook is in excess of $77 billion additional priceless than the second-biggest member, Zynga Game Network Inc., valued at $5.7 billion.
Investor Sentiment
When Facebook's value is surging around the secondary markets, a poll of global investors showed investor skepticism. Sixty- 9 % of traders in a very survey of one,000 Bloomberg buyers, who are traders, traders or analysts, explained Facebook is overvalued right after the $50 billion valuation implied by Goldman Sachs's investment.
Amazon, the largest on the internet retailer, went public practically 14 many years back. The Seattle-based organization said Jan. 27 that product sales within the initially quarter is going to be as minimal as $9.one billion, trailing the regular analyst estimate of $9.36 billion in the Bloomberg survey.
Nevertheless, Amazon is 17 instances the size of Facebook in terms of revenue. With $34.2 billion in revenue very last yr, Amazon trades for two.two occasions revenue. Facebook, mentioned to have 2010 income of $2 billion, features a price-to-sales ratio of 41.five.
Amazon fell $13.31 to $171.14 yesterday. The shares have gained 36 % previously year.
Facebook is valued at $82.9 billion on secondary exchange SharesPost Inc. and has jumped by more than 40 % due to the fact mid-December. Amazon shares dropped 7.two % yesterday after a disappointing sales forecast, pushing its stock industry value down to $77.2 billion.
Investor need for Facebook is soaring to the personal markets as advertisers spend for your focus of a user base that is ballooned to over 500 million. Ad investing on Facebook will more than double to $4.05 billion this 12 months, according to researcher EMarketer Inc. LinkedIn Corp., the main networking web page for experts, said Jan. 27 that it ideas to increase $175 million in an original share sale.
The gains reflect the increasing popularity of social media organizations, which allow users interact and carry out other tasks that have been long unavailable, or only doable to a minimal degree, on older Net sites.
Facebook's approximated really worth surpassed that of EBay Inc., owner on the biggest e-commerce industry, late previous 12 months. It's nonetheless dwarfed by Google, the world's most significant World-wide-web search engine, that is worth $192 billion.
SharesPost, a market for private business shares, bases appeal on these criteria as transactions, investigation estimates and venture-funding rounds. Facebook shares have offered for as much as $60 apiece on SharesPost this month, which means some investors value the social-networking company at $136 billion.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. led a $1.5 billion financing round in Palo Alto, California-based Facebook at a $50 billion valuation earlier this month.
Outstripping Zynga
Facebook plans to start out reporting fiscal success by April 2012 even though it has not held an original public presenting, in accordance to a document sent to prospective traders. The firm can be compelled to produce disclosures since it expects to have a minimum of 500 shareholders through the stop of this 12 months, a threshold that tends to make reporting results required underneath U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission guidelines, someone who reviewed the document mentioned before this month.
At $82.9 billion, Facebook's value has jumped over sevenfold considering that March, when SharesPost released its Venture- Backed Index, featuring seven companies. Facebook is in excess of $77 billion additional priceless than the second-biggest member, Zynga Game Network Inc., valued at $5.7 billion.
Investor Sentiment
When Facebook's value is surging around the secondary markets, a poll of global investors showed investor skepticism. Sixty- 9 % of traders in a very survey of one,000 Bloomberg buyers, who are traders, traders or analysts, explained Facebook is overvalued right after the $50 billion valuation implied by Goldman Sachs's investment.
Amazon, the largest on the internet retailer, went public practically 14 many years back. The Seattle-based organization said Jan. 27 that product sales within the initially quarter is going to be as minimal as $9.one billion, trailing the regular analyst estimate of $9.36 billion in the Bloomberg survey.
Nevertheless, Amazon is 17 instances the size of Facebook in terms of revenue. With $34.2 billion in revenue very last yr, Amazon trades for two.two occasions revenue. Facebook, mentioned to have 2010 income of $2 billion, features a price-to-sales ratio of 41.five.
Amazon fell $13.31 to $171.14 yesterday. The shares have gained 36 % previously year.
2010年11月26日星期五
Google Chrome OS to Be Released for Tabs, TVs and Handhelds
Last Wednesday, throughout an interview with CNET officials, Google's V.P. of Engineering for Chrome talked about plans for taking the Chrome OS beyond a typical platform. Originally, this OS was created to suit the cloud primarily based computing applications. At most, its fundamental application was believed to be embedded in tablets and/or PCs. Nevertheless, seeing towards the phenomenal Android technique, the business made the decision to go for a bigger piece with the cake.
The Chrome, just like Android, is stated to have sufficient possible to be an alternative to Android powered devices. For starters, Google Tv, fundamental level tablets and preliminary simulation packages could be a good test bed for the Chrome OS. The VP stated, "We've obtained plans for covering the laptop marketplace initially, and additional expansion to a lot broader perspectives."
Google’s CEO – Eric Schmidt passed a statement last time at the Web 2.0 conference, which fairly a lot demeaned the Chrome OS capabilities. He stated that the upcoming OS isn't perfectly compliant with touch primarily based units. Keyboards, in his opinion, were the perfect match for the extremely anticipated operating program. By the way, Schmidt's statements have a direct conflict using the ones that the V.P. was talking about.
Meanwhile, Google has released a slew of concept and prototype pictures that point out the preliminary form element with the Chrome OS tablet. Nevertheless, the business by no means talked about source code(s), SDK or stuff like that. And if Eric Schmidt's statement is accurate, then what's the whole point of releasing a tablet whenever you require a common keyboard with it? I'm guessing the CEO's stance was most likely just a little outdated back then.
The Chrome, just like Android, is stated to have sufficient possible to be an alternative to Android powered devices. For starters, Google Tv, fundamental level tablets and preliminary simulation packages could be a good test bed for the Chrome OS. The VP stated, "We've obtained plans for covering the laptop marketplace initially, and additional expansion to a lot broader perspectives."
Google’s CEO – Eric Schmidt passed a statement last time at the Web 2.0 conference, which fairly a lot demeaned the Chrome OS capabilities. He stated that the upcoming OS isn't perfectly compliant with touch primarily based units. Keyboards, in his opinion, were the perfect match for the extremely anticipated operating program. By the way, Schmidt's statements have a direct conflict using the ones that the V.P. was talking about.
Meanwhile, Google has released a slew of concept and prototype pictures that point out the preliminary form element with the Chrome OS tablet. Nevertheless, the business by no means talked about source code(s), SDK or stuff like that. And if Eric Schmidt's statement is accurate, then what's the whole point of releasing a tablet whenever you require a common keyboard with it? I'm guessing the CEO's stance was most likely just a little outdated back then.
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